Recipe for a More Peaceful World
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Recipe for a More Peaceful World
An increasing volume of research confirms that good nutrition not only can improve psychological well-being and prevent depression, it can reduce aggression. Oxford University Physiologist Bernard Gesch led the way in 2002 by proving that infractions of prison rules fell 26 percent among British inmates when their diet included multivitamin, mineral and fatty-acid supplements over a period of four months. Recently, Radboud University in the Netherlands came up with similar results among Dutch inmates. Their reports of violence and aggression plummeted 34 percent in just one to three months.
“If it works in prisons, it should work in the community and the society at large,” observes Gesch. Those who study the relationship of nutrition and behavior caution people not to use supplements as a substitute for a good diet.
