I am not surprised at this finding. In India , seventy five percent of the true achievers are vegetarian. The top businessmen , the top business classes , most of the top politicians and filmstars, models, athletes… Having grown up in a meat eating environment ( the army) I am happy that my husband Sanjay made me vegetarian at the age of 18. My favourite vegetarian , my son Varun , has been vegetarian since he was born and has an IQ of 161 ( proving this theory). All the vegetarian people whom I know are all significantly more intelligent than the average. I have a list of my favourite vegetarians and , thank God for India, I have a huge long list to choose from. I am only choosing the most intelligent in this list – the handsomest, most beautiful,sexiest etc – we will leave for another day.

Let me start with the Great Khali – the WWF wrestler who is the largest man I have ever seen on television. He is not just a vegetarian but is a gentle giant who feeds homeless people wherever he is. One of my firmest beliefs is that it takes intelligence to have compassion.

Pritish Nandy, poet, writer, filmmaker, painter, designer, thinker, the editor of the Illustrated Weekly of India when it was the single largest magazine in India and Member of Parliament much before it became mandatory to reward loyalty in journalists and industrialists with Rajya sabha memberships.

The Ambani brothers, their wives and their father and mother. Imagine creating and managing so much wealth that it becomes inspirational. Group them with Aditya Birla and his family and Narayanamurthy , the founder of Infosys and the entire IT movement in India which has given jobs to lakhs of people . The list of vegetarian creators of wealth runs into thousands of pages. Is a vegetarian diet the key to success as well as well-being?