minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow) (07/21/84)
The following is translated, in its entirety, from ETC, a Swedish magazine. (Issue 4, 1984): Food Cures There is an American criminologist named Stephan Schoentaler. What he discovered could destroy the American junk-food industry. If junk-food is removed from the youth-prisons in the USA, conditions improve. At a youth-home in Virginia, fights [arguments?] decreased 56% and youths in good condition improved 76% (don't ask us how he computed that). The statistics show the same tendency even two years after this reform. The recipe is simple: Coca-Cola is replaced by orange juice, canned fruit is removed from the menu, candy avoided. The researcher is so satisfied with his results that he spread them to all American prisons. But they answered that the least change in the menu would lead to upproar. Translated by Martin Minow decvax!minow
marcum@rhino.UUCP (Alan M. Marcum) (07/23/84)
Similar studies have been done in adult penitentiaries, too. It
is related to the destruction of the B-complex of vitamins by
sugar. The B-complex is important to the proper functioning of
the nervous system, and handling stress. Imagine what happens
when all inmates' ability to handle stress increases....!
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Alan M. Marcum Fortune Systems, Redwood City, California
...!{ihnp4, ucbvax!amd, hpda, sri-unix, harpo}!fortune!rhino!marcumgtaylor@cornell.UUCP (Greg Taylor) (07/27/84)
This is about as good a place to ask this as any I've seen. My mother and father in law are now Shaklee distributors, and a deluge of vitamins and Heaven knows what else has started. I've read and am familiar with say, Adele Davis, but now I'me getting a fair amount of what strikes me as downright pseudoscientific craziness from them about what to do for ..... (you name it). Some of the more recent stuff I've been reading on nutritional research makes me worry a little about where they're getting the data they're peddling. My wife and I are ,in fact, practicing very good nutrition (balanced proteins, little meat, a little wine to aid the digestion), etc. so it's not as if we're in great trouble. I think that for my folks, vitamins are a kind of vaccine against the world and its toxins as they seen themselves as under a sort of seige (there are some religious componenets to this as well). Any of you ever encounter this sort of thing? Tell me about it. I am worried about them, but also afraid that the peripheral parts of the arguments will wind up polarizing me away from the things that I should be paying attention to. Pass this along to anyone you'd know, please.... ________________________________________________________________________________ If you ask me, I may tell you gtaylor@cornell it's been this way for years Gregory Taylor I play my red guitar.... Theorynet (Theoryknot) ________________________________________________________________________________