Re: Article: Diet Can Reform Delinquents

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Wanita-

This is fascinating, and terrific! He may well not have the whole story

with manganese (I'm sure he doesn't) but the fact that people are actually

investigating the role of nutrition is tremendously important. If he were

to actually effect change in California's penal system, he might pave the

way for something really radical.

><http://www.resultsproject.net/SR_on_Nutrition_%26_Violence.html>http://www

>.resultsproject.net/SR_on_Nutrition_ & _Violence.html

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>This man has linked excess manganese in hair analysis in CA prisoners. IIRC

>manganese being one of Mark Purdy's findings in Mad Cow Disease.

One paragraph in particular from that article struck me:

>>That research looked at 402 inmates in two California Youth Authority

>>prison camps, who were divided into groups and given vitamin supplements

>>or placebos for 15 weeks. The boys given 100 percent of the U.S.

>>recommended daily allowance of vitamins and minerals showed a 38 percent

>>decline in serious rule violations. The group given placebos actually

>>showed a small but statistically insignificant increase in violations.

I'm sure the test group was given the crappiest of synthetic vitamins, and

yet even with low RDA doses of junk vitamins, the inmates *still*

improved. And I find it particularly telling that the control group,

receiving a small additional amount of sugar daily in the form of the

placebo pills, actually got worse, though not significantly.

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[Guest guest]

>This is fascinating, and terrific!  He may well not have the whole story

>with manganese (I'm sure he doesn't) but the fact that people are actually

>investigating the role of nutrition is tremendously important.  If he were

>to actually effect change in California's penal system, he might pave the

>way for something really radical.

>

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www.resultsproject.net/SR_on_Nutrition_%26_Violence.html><http://www/>http:/

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>>.resultsproject.net/SR_on_Nutrition_ & _Violence.html

I agree! Have been more intrigued than I was with crime and nutrition since

reading WAP's few paragraphs about it in NAPD. Found these articles in a

search

on nutrition crime after running across this article where they're doing it in

the UK

<http://www.lef.org/news/vitamins/2003/01/19/SDMC/0000-0740-KEYWORD.Missing

..html>http://www.lef.org/news/vitamins/2003/01/19/SDMC/0000-0740-KEYWORD.Mi

ssing.html

Here's a comment from the American Chiropractic on the U.S.'s not covering the

above in the media

<http://www.americanchiropractic.net/ADD/nutritioin%20stops%20criminal%20vi

olence.pdf>http://www.americanchiropractic.net/ADD/nutritioin%20stops%20cri

minal%20violence.pdf

I was involved moreso in the past with an alternative sentencing option

through

our local court. Reinventing Justice here is based on the restorative justice

adopted by Canadian courts in response to the increasing numbers of First

Nation's ( Canada's Native) people in the court system. Here its community

volunteer, family, friend support. In Canada tribal members where available.

There is a process all based on Canadian aboriginal justice prior to courts

but

adapted to the courts. Searching restorative justice, aboriginal justice or

sentencing circles will give an overview of how it works. Some would say

I'm an

idealist but I firmly believe that there was a time when few broke any law,

written or moral because they were brought up with the law that worked for who

they are and they also had the food that worked for them, that would sustain

them at their healthiest level to perpetuate themselves and their descendants.

Nutrition is neglected in all recovery programs when it should be at least

part

of the sentence like in the UK article. The U.S. has 1/4 of the world's

incarcerated so that makes American Chiropratics non media reason of $$

accurate. The UK added fatty acids to the vitamin supplements. When I did take

vitamins I never did take fatty acids.I think thats where I would have got a

better improvement than I did.

>I'm sure the test group was given the crappiest of synthetic vitamins, and

>yet even with low RDA doses of junk vitamins, the inmates *still*

>improved.  And I find it particularly telling that the control group,

>receiving a small additional amount of sugar daily in the form of the

>placebo pills, actually got worse, though not significantly.

Definitely provides a basis for who in the groups are the most nutritionally

challenged and that they all are.

Wanita