And if you were to deprive me of my cheese and onion crisps you would have a
one man riot on your hands, where is your human rights now, where choice
where education ?
Once again prisoners are guinea pigs/ You are fond of quoting the human
rights act UK, where does it say that prisoners forfeit the right to choice
in taking part in an experiment ?
What next !!!
Larry
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> Subject: Junk food to be taken off jail menus in a study to reduce
> violence
>
>
> From The Daily Telegraph on Monday 3rd February 2003
>
> Junk food to be taken off jail menus in a study to reduce violence
> By Auslan Cramb
> (Filed: 03/02/2003)
>
> Chips, pies and sweets are to be taken off the menu at three
> prisons during
> a study intended to reduce violence.
> Initial trials last year at a prison in Aylesbury, Bucks, suggested that
> raising the levels of vitamins, minerals and fatty acids in the diet of
> teenage prisoners reduced anti-social behaviour.
>
> The charity Natural Justice will now carry out more detailed
> trials for the
> Home Office and the Scottish Prison Service at jails including
> Polmont young
> offenders institute in central Scotland to discover which elements in the
> diet determine behaviour.
>
> Bernard Gesch, a physiologist at Oxford University, is leading the study,
> which will take place this summer. He said: "Research suggests that we may
> have seriously under-estimated the importance of nutrition for our social
> behaviour.
>
> "Since the 1950s there has been a ten-fold increase in offences. How else
> can we explain that but by diet? It is not down to genetics. The
> main change
> over that period has been in nutrients."
>
> The £2 million project will involve participants being prevented
> from eating
> large amounts of high fat, high carbohydrate foods, sweets and surgary
> drinks. They will eat more fruit and vegetables and will take nutrient
> capsules.
>
> Last year a team led by Mr Gesch carried out a study that
> suggested inmates
> who took supplements committed 26 per cent fewer disciplinary
> offences than
> those who unknowingly took placebo pills.
>
> You can read earlier stories in the Telegraph at:-
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk; you will have to register, then go to U.K News
> and scroll down page and you will get to the above News Story,
> plus links to
> the another related articles below:-
> 2003: Junk food 'may lead to eating addiction'
> 26 June 2002: Vitamin pills help violent prisoners behave better, plus
> External related links:-
>
> External links:-
>
> Natural Justice
>
> Home Office
>
> Scottish Prison Service
>
> British Nutrition Foundation
>
> In the news - The Food Doctor
>
> I have an interest in this story due to my own individual research around
> Autistic Spectrum Disorders(ASD's) and Specific Learning
> Difficulties(SpLd's) and Optimum Nutrition and that there are too many
> neuro-diverse( research in U.K states that there are between 70/90% with
> ASD's and SpLd's incarcerated within the Criminal Justice System)
> individuals who are incarcerated within prisons, young-offender
> institutions
> and Mental Health/ Secure Hospital and residential institutions who are
> believe are genetically sensitive(chemically and food/drink
> allergies/intolerances to environmental toxins which causes
> 'brain-allergies.
>
> This means that research like the one mentioned within various prisons in
> the U.K. is a breakthrough to neuro-diverse individuals having informed
> choices to alternative and safe treatments and clinical nutrition could be
> the breakthrough for many individuals with ASD's and SpLd's and
> experiencing
> Mental Health, in which have a
> neurobiological/biochemical basis.
>
> This is a basic human rights issue which is starting to be
> addressed and we
> should welcome this research.
>
> Regards
>
> Colin Revell
>
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