Article: Study Indicates Nutritional Deficiencies Lead to Aggression & Violence in Children

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Study Indicates Nutritional Deficiencies Lead to Aggression & Violence

in Children

 

 

http://www.newstarget.com/006194.html

 

Other References:

<http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/161/11/2005> Full

report at American Journal of Psychiatry

Nutrition Key to Aggressive Behavior (University of Southern

<http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/10773.html> California)

Malnutrition in early years leads to low IQ and later antisocial

<http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/social_sciences/report-3

6152.html> behavior (Innovations Report)

 

NewsTarget.com printable article April 02, 2005

By Mike Adams

 

Lack of Basic Nutrition Creates Generation of Criminals; Prison System

Society A new study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry

shows that children who experience malnutrition exhibit strikingly

increased behavioral disorders and aggressive behavior as they grow

older. The study looked at children between the ages of eight and 17

years, and found some rather shocking statistics about their behaviors.

Children who suffered certain nutritional deficiencies demonstrated a

shocking 41% increase in aggression at age eight. At age 17, they

demonstrated a 51% increase in violent and antisocial behaviors. And the

only difference is their diet. It's all about the foods they were eating

and the nutrients they were missing.

 

What specific nutrients were missing from their diets? Four primary

nutrients were tried in the study: Zinc, iron, B vitamins and protein.

Malnourished children weren't getting crucial minerals like zinc and

iron, and they weren't getting the B vitamins they needed to develop

healthy nervous systems. And a healthy nervous system is a prerequisite

for mental and emotional health and stability.

 

Now let's talk about these nutrients in a little more detail and explore

why these nutritional deficiencies are so widespread. Zinc is perhaps

the single most common nutritional deficiency in the American

population. Estimates are that more than 80% of the population is

deficient in zinc. As a result of that deficiency, people's immune

systems are impaired, they're not able to resist infectious diseases

such as influenza, they're not able to heal their wounds as quickly and

they're not able to recover from surgical procedures as quickly as they

could if they had zinc. It also affects fetal development in pregnant

women and impairs neurological function.

 

And yet zinc is cheap! It only costs a few pennies a day to supplement

our diets with zinc. In fact, it's one of the least expensive

supplements you can get. But in our country we still have widespread

chronic deficiencies. And as we're seeing in studies like this, our zinc

deficiency is leading to - let's say it bluntly - criminals.

 

Why do we have so many criminals in this country? Because so many of

them are raised with nutritional imbalances which then distort their

mental function, their mood, their response to stress and their ability

to be successful in modern society. At least those are major

contributing factors. At the same time we have B-vitamin deficiencies,

which is interesting because so many of the popular food products sold

in grocery stores all over the country and around the world actually

deplete the body of B vitamins.

 

The two most common ingredients in our foods seem to be white flour and

sugar. It's hard to find any product in the grocery store, it seems,

that isn't made with flour or some form of added sugars, whether it's

sucrose, high fructose corn syrup, dextrose or just plain sugar. These

two ingredients are both highly refined ingredients, and they tend to

strip away nutrients from the bodies of people who consume them. For

example, when a person eats a donut, that donut contains both white

flour and added sugars, which deplete the body of B vitamins, causing

deficiencies. And it is these deficiencies that lead to antisocial

behavior, aggressive behavior and ultimately criminal behavior -

especially among males.

 

Another dietary factor in these behavioral disorders, it turns out, is a

lack of quality protein. People aren't getting high quality protein

because they think the only place to get protein is from beef and red

meat, when in fact superfoods like spirulina offer much higher quality

protein. Soy and rice proteins are also much higher quality proteins. In

fact, there are many plant proteins that are actually healthier proteins

for human beings, but are not being adequately consumed by the American

population. People tend to turn to meat and milk, and those are in my

opinion the worst sources of protein if you wish to maintain long-term

health.

 

So we have a population that suffers from widespread nutritional

deficiencies - that much we know. But what may surprise you is how we

actually deal with these deficiencies. Instead of spending a few dollars

a month on nutritional supplements that would prevent these chronic

diseases and aggressive behaviors, we end up spending hundreds of

billions of dollars a year on building new prisons and treating these

people with expensive prescriptions and mind-altering drugs. When it

comes to children, for example, instead of giving them the food they

need to be healthy, which would prevent these diseases and disorders, we

dose them on Ritalin, antidepressants and other mind-altering drugs.

This is expensive. It also impairs the child's learning capability while

at the same time increasing the child's risk of violent behavior and

suicide.

 

Here we have a nutrient deficiency, most notably the B vitamins, that is

causing children to act aggressively and be diagnosed with ADHD. The

solution offered by conventional medicine is to dose them with

antidepressant drugs that actually promote more aggressive behavior as

we've seen in recent school killings. What kind of solution is that? It

sounds crazy, but it's exactly the solution being implemented every day,

right now, all across the country. Perhaps even with your child. But

these kids don't need drugs; they need vitamins, nutrition and healthy

foods.

 

Another point worth mentioning here is that the national food supply

doesn't offer consumers sufficient quantities of these vitamins and

minerals. There's a great myth out there - one frequently promoted by

conventionally trained medical doctors - that says you get all the

nutrition you need from eating three balanced meals a day. But this is

nothing more than a myth. " Three balanced meals a day " is meaningless

because a lot of people think that one breakfast at Denny's, lunch at

McDonald's and dinner at home with macaroni and cheese is " balanced " .

And that's absurd. It is neither balanced nor a meal. It's simply junk

food that promotes chronic disease and obesity.

 

But even if you went to the grocery store for fruits and vegetables and

ate them three times a day, you still wouldn't be getting adequate

nutrition (see related ebook on nutrition). To figure this out for

yourself, just do the math. Add up the U.S. RDA numbers on the labels of

all the foods you consume, and you'll find out that if you're going to

meet the minimum requirements set by the U.S. government for preventing

chronic disease, you're going to have to eat, on average, 10,000

calories a day of grocery store foods. That's 500% more food than an

individual needs if they're a healthy adult of average weight. It's

impossible to eat that much, even if you try hard. Morgan Spurlock, the

creator of the " Supersize Me " documentary, ate nothing but McDonald's

food for 30 days. He stuffed himself with McDonald's food three times a

day and still only managed to eat about 5,000 calories. You would have

to double Spurlock's incredible feat to eat 10,000 calories a day. And

only then would you be meeting the minimum requirements for nutrition.

 

And yet, those minimum requirements aren't enough to experience optimum

health; all they do is prevent the most obvious nutritional deficiency

diseases such as beriberi, scurvy or even rickets. If you want to get

optimum health, you've got to supplement your diet through nutritional

supplements, or by consuming superfoods like chlorella or spirulina,

sprouts, berries and products like The Ultimate Meal or Berry Green.

This is the only way you can get adequate nutrition.

 

As we're now realizing with this study, a huge segment of our childhood

population clearly is not getting this nutrition. As a result, we are

raising yet another generation of children with behavioral disorders,

aggression and problems with the law. Essentially, we are raising

tomorrow's

criminals. These are the people that will be put in federal prisons that

you and I will have to pay for with our taxpayer dollars. We're going to

have to support them, and it costs a lot of money to support prisoners.

Not only do they not produce anything, they don't pay taxes or

contribute to the revenue needed to support society. They actually suck

away revenues from society by costing something like $60,000 per year

per prisoner on average. They simply waste away without learning new

skills that could help them assimilate back into society someday.

 

Now think about it. We could spend a few dollars a month on our

children, and give them nutritional supplements that prevent all of

this. The choice is this: spend a few dollars a month on supplementing

our kids' nutrition, or let this become a full-blown problem where we

have to build more prisons and spend tens of thousands of dollars every

year to support them in our federal prison system. Which choice makes

more sense? If you were running the country and had to decide where to

spend the money, where would it make more sense? Should you spend a

couple of dollars a month on nutritional supplements for children and

pregnant women, or should you spend $60,000 a year on each and every

criminal that is created by nutritional deficiencies? Think about it.

 

Right now in our country, we have a system that literally gives rise to

a population of emotionally imbalanced, mentally deranged criminals. And

they are that way because, in part, they don't have good nutrition. They

simply don't get the vitamins and minerals that their nervous systems

need to fully develop and function in a healthy way.

 

So what's the solution here? It's easy. Nutritional supplements should

be made available free of charge to the entire population. The

government (the taxpayers, actually) should provide free vitamins,

minerals and phytonutrients to the population, especially pregnant women

and children, so that we can prevent birth defects and behavioral

disorders early on. We would save countless dollars down the road. This

is something I've supported for a long time and I will continue to

promote.

 

But of course, nothing is free. American taxpayers would be footing the

bill, but it is a wise investment. By spending a few dollars on disease

prevention today, we are avoiding the long-term expenditure of a lot

more money taking care of a society full of criminals.

 

Nutrition is a great investment, and preventing disease has a big payoff

for society. I say we pay close attention to these studies and find ways

to provide better nutrition to our children, our expectant mothers and

our general population so that we can prevent these diseases before they

become problems for society.

 

Source: http://www.newstarget.com/006194.html

 

Other References:

<http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/161/11/2005> Full

report at American Journal of Psychiatry

Nutrition Key to Aggressive Behavior (University of Southern

<http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/10773.html> California)

Malnutrition in early years leads to low IQ and later antisocial

<http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/social_sciences/report-3

6152.html> behavior (Innovations Report)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Christine Ziegler [chrisziggy]

Tuesday, April 12, 2005 1:31 PM

chrisziggy

Article: Study Indicates Nutritional Deficiencies

Lead to Aggression & Violence in Children

 

 

And my husband wonders why I'm a Food Nazi, as he so affectionately

calls me <grinz>

 

*Smile*

Chris

http://www.alittleolfactory.com

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

http://www.organicconsumers.org/school/aggression040405.cfm

 

<http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/10773.html> California)

Malnutrition in early years leads to low IQ and later antisocial

<http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/social_sciences/report-3

6152.html> behavior (Innovations Report)

 

Hey Chris,

 

There are some positive inroads (albeit few at this date) being made by

innovative school districts and individual schools who have introduced whole

foods into their school cafeterias, with an emphasis on organic, and

limiting excess carbs and junk foods (i.e., banning the corporate

sugar-empty carb) vending machines. Anyone who has taken the time to watch

'Supersize Me' should be very concerned about mass-produced food and what it

is doing to our health, emotional, mental and physical. One of these

forward-thinking middle/high schools in particular has managed to turn a

rowdy, under-achieving, mostly criminal student population into thoughtful

students who are now ranked in the high percentiles re: grades/college

enrollment/career achievement.

 

Some schools are implementing mini-business programs whereby students grow

veggies and make products to sell in their neighborhood. Lots of skills

learned in these programs, from horticulture, botany, business management,

marketing . . . One of the most successful is

http://www.foodfromthehood.com/ , a program now going for about 10 years and

products sold all around SoCal. All of us should get involved in programs

like this to improve the quality of our children/grandchildren's future.

 

I have supported organicconsumers.org for several years and feel they are

doing a great job educating about the importance of quality food

cultivation/consumption . . . Also, LinkTV has had several shows lately

regarding corporate farms and resultant economic and soil

depletion/demoralized family farmers now committing suicide at an all-time

high rate. If we continue to leave our food production in the hands of

corporations, we will all lose. Food should be regionally supported and

distributed. If there are organic farms in your area that you can join as a

'sharecropper', this is a wonderful way to not only get a huge box of

organic goodies every week, but you also learn the quality of eating

seasonal fare. Stop buying veggies/fruits at your local supermarket (they

come from S. America/Africa/etc.) and patronize your local farmer's markets

where small family farmers are learning self-sufficiency by not only growing

good food but marketing it directly to the consumer.

 

There are ways to turn back this destructive tide. But it involves thinking

and acting. Unfortunately, the fast food and supermarket 'convenience' has

made us lazy and has overshadowed the growing crises.

 

Be well,

Marcia Elston, Samara Botane, http://www.wingedseed.com

" First of all, cultivate a contented spirit; a garden is a good place to

begin. "