Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970
In Prisons, Replacing Junk Food With Whole Foods Reduced Violence By 80%.
In Juvenile Detention Centers, Replacing Junk Food With Whole Foods Reduced Violence By 91%.
Food is the most powerful intervention for mental health & behavior.
"If You Give Prisoners Healthy Food, Swapping Out All The Crap They Eat In Prisons, There’s A 56% Reduction In Violent Crime. If You Add A Multivitamin, It’s An 80% Reduction. Because They Are All Nutritionally Depleted."
The same has been done with adolescents in juvenile detention centers with clinical trials. The kids are disruptive, violent, aggressive, oppositional & suicidal.
Stopping the SAD diet filled with Ultra Processed Foods & seed oils, instead giving them whole foods, there was a 91% reduction in all violent behavior, oppositional behavior, the need for restraints went down & suicide went down 100%.
Suicide is the third leading cause of death in that age group, it went down 100% — no suicides.
"The SAD (Standard American Diet), full of Ultra Processed Foods, excess carbohydrates, sugar & seed oils, disconnects the Amygdala from the frontal lobe of the brain.
The frontal lobe is the grown up in the room, the adult — your higher self. The Amygdala is part of your reptile brain, your lizard brain. It’s going to fight or flee.
Physiologically these parts of the brain are connected. But what happens if you eat crap, they get disconnected. And so you’re constantly reacting from your Amygdala with no grownup in the room.
Which is why we see this level of divisiveness and hatred & all the upheaval we’re seeing in society now. I think a large part of that has to do with our brains being constantly triggered by this reptilian insult that is driving behavior change. And when we look at the fact of other data to support this, it’s not just a theory.” ---Dr. Mark Hyman
A healthy diet leads to a healthy brain which leads to a healthy society. This needs to be on an individual level within our own families & on an institutional level to overhaul what's served in schools, hospitals, nursing homes, prisons & all institutional settings.
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