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The book "The Molecule of More"[1] presents differences in conservatives' and liberals' mind traits, with descriptions of studies attempting to make someone conservative/liberal using drugs.

Overall, conservatives are more conventional and less predisposed to try new things. This may suggest that they are less likely to follow modern knowledge on healthy lifestyle, introduce nutritional changes, increase physical activity or get vaccinated.

Religion may play a part, too. If you believe that your health is out of your control, you may not me inclined to do any changes.

[1] https://moleculeofmore.com/

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> Overall, conservatives are more conventional and less predisposed to try new things.

So, conservatives are more ... conservative?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=8SOQduoLgRw

Yeah, exactly

Here it is stated again

Enjoy

>less likely to follow modern knowledge on healthy lifestyle

Seems like a claim that was invented. Physically fit men are substantially more likely to be conservative. [1] [2]

Your claims that "modern knowledge" even show how to be healthy are dubious, given food pyramids presented by government were co-opted by sugar peddlers, who bribed top universities like Harvard for pro-sugar 'research'. [3]

[1] https://www.brunel.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/articles/Muscu...

[2] https://www.dmarge.com/political-workout

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-in...

> > less likely to follow modern knowledge on healthy lifestyle

> Seems like a claim that was invented.

You do realize that you ignored "This may suggest"? Also, the text we're discussing points at differences in being vaccinated. Which you also omitted.

> Physically fit men are substantially more likely to be conservative. [1] [2]

Both studies talk about stronger/more muscular, not "physically fit" men. One can be fit without being muscular. You're confounding being fit, being muscular, and being healthy. There's overlap, but someone drinking only protein shakes and taking steroids to be very muscular because they believe "alphas" something is not someone being healthy.

It's pretty much impossible to get jacked by eating garbage and just hitting the gym for hours a day. Diet is an important component, and gyms (and habitual gym users) won't tell you to drink only protein shakes.

In fact, gym attendance has been directly linked to lifespan and therefore general health.

I don't think it's that simple. The politicization along the US lines is a specific US phenomenon, it appears to be the result of a polarization along the two-party system. I don't see how it can be explained by political opinions themselves.

To give you a comparison, before Trump and the pandemic, German antivaxers used to be from the esoteric, ecological nutrition and alternative healing communities, a subculture highly skeptic to traditional medicine with many connections to other fringe cultures. These were mostly left-wing progressives. The right-wing political flavoring came during the pandemic and from the US. This lead to rather bizarre scenes like this radical right-wing vegan cook book author or 70s peace-movement elderly feminists marching together with young Neo-Nazis in antivax protests.

Is this why after several generations of the New Deal 'conservatives' wanted to get rid of it?

There is perhaps another divide than conservative liberal at work since obviously if one did not want to try new things they wouldn't want to take apart a system that had been working since before they were born.

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