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Why So Much Violence? 1271 High Street, Auburn, CA 95603 Phone (530) 823-7092 order line (800) 359-6091 Hours: Tues. – Fri. 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. E-mail: [email protected] web: www.ImageAwareness.com December 2013 Volume 9: Issue 12 Pervasive Violence 1920’s. McCarrison fed rats the diet garine, consisting of coconut oil; of different people groups in India. He tinned meat; tinned jam; tea, well The modern world seems to be found that the diet of the peoples of sweetened with sugar, to which was fi lled with violence. Weston Price Northern India sustained the animals added enough milk to give it the cus- wrote, “After one has lived among in almost perfect health. McCarrison tomary tinge; and water. The animals the primitive racial stocks in different received a real shock, however, when acquired an extraordinary liking for parts of the world and studied them in he fed his animals the diet which was the tea; consuming as much as 600 cc their isolation, few impressions can being consumed by the British and daily, and therewith approximately 20 be more vivid than that of the absence other western peoples. g of sugar and 20 cc of milk.” of prisons and asylums. Few, if any, of the problems which confront modern “The second colony (of rats) re- The diet was continued for six civilization are more serious and dis- ceived a diet which was ultimately months. The mortality of the rats on turbing than the progressive increase shown to have been ‘a bad one’. It the Western diet was 45 percent while in the percentage of individuals with was designed to resemble that eaten that on the Sikh diet was only 15 per- unsocial traits and a lack of respon- by many Western people of the poorer cent. One third of the animals which sibility.” classes. It consisted of white bread, died in the Western-fed colony was made from American white fl our and killed and eaten by the other rats. Mc- Price wrote in 1945. In his day he obtained from the local bakery; veg- Carrison had to separate the animals to noted that almost a third of the popu- etables cabbage, carrot, potato, etc., stop the murders. These animals were lation of Vermont had suffi ciently cooked in water to which pinches particularly susceptible to respiratory lowered mentality that they required of bicarbonate of soda and common infections which were rare among the some type of supervision. He would salt were added; a substitute for mar- hundreds of rats McCarrison was rais- be horrifi ed at the situation today. ing at any given point in time on his Price found evidence of deterioration standard healthy diet which was based as a result of faulty nutrition in most on the diet consumed by the Hunza of the institutionalized individuals he people. The animals were “stunted observed. By contrast such deteriora- and badly proportioned; coats were tion was not evident in isolated people staring and lacking in gloss; they groups which were not consuming were nervous and apt to bite the at- modern foods. tendants...” References: The rats fed the British diet began Price, Weston A., Nutrition and Physical Degen- eration, Santa Monica, CA: Price-Pottenger Nutri- to kill and eat one another after sixty tion Foundation, 1975, 353-359. days on the highly processed diet. The animals had to be isolated to complete Early Researchers the experiment. Animals fed healthy One of the earliest studies suggest- diets lived in harmony with one an- ing a connection between malnutrition other. and criminal behavior was conducted Joseph Goldberger identifi ed pel- by Sir Robert McCarrison in the lagra as a vitamin B3 defi ciency. Copyright © 2013 by Jim McAfee. All rights reserved. 1 drink wine without putting sugar in it. ing 10-12 cups of coffee a day and Hitler lost most of his teeth. removed the sugar and refi ned foods Napoleon was also very fond of from the house. In a matter of weeks sugar, chocolate, and pastry. He gave she was a new person. his name to the “napoleon”, a “rich Barbara became an apostle of good iced fancy cake composed of layers nutrition as a result of her own experi- of cake and cream or jelly.” ence. She found that a huge propor- All of these observations suggest tion of those in trouble with the law that intake of large quantities of sugar were addicted to junk food. and refi ned, nutrient depleted foods Rather than referring her clients to Pellagra “was characterized as the contribute to changes in behavior, a psychiatrist she had them tested for disease of the four d’s dermatitis, di- violence, and potential criminal be- low blood sugar after reading a book arrhea, dementia and death.” Those havior. on the subject. She also began to test with pellagra were characterized by References: her clients for heavy metal poisoning “brooding sullenness, suddenly shat- Pottenger, Francis, M., Jr., Pottenger’s Cats, La looking particularly at elevated blood tered by outbursts of irrational anger, Mesa, CA: Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, levels of lead and cadmium which are persecution, mania, the feeling of 1983, 11. associated with emotional and behav- people living in a cruel and demented Kraut, Alan M., Goldberger’s War, New York: ioral disorders. world of their own...” When vitamin Hill and Wang, 2003, 5. Fallon, Sally, Nourishing Traditions, 2nd Edi- Barbara’s success moved her for- B3 was fi rst added to refi ned fl our in tion, Washington, D.C.: NewTrends Publishing, the process called “enrichment” about ward in her career until she became 2001, 486. head of the Cuyahoga Falls Probation half the people in mental institutions http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/ar- went home well. chive/2012/10/21/pellagra-causes-violent-crimes. Department. aspx Dr. Abram Hoffer pioneered the The recidivism rate (tendency to Mount, James Lambert, Sir Robert McCarrison relapse into previous behavior pat- use of vitamin B3 to treat schizophre- and Wholefood, 15 HIgh St. Marlow, Bucks: Preci- nia. He gave his patients 1,000 mg of sion Press,1975, 22. terns) of those who commit serious niacinamide three times a day along Walters, A. Harry, McCarrison & Nutrition, crimes is close to 70 percent. Barbara Reading, England: The McCarrison Society,1944, with a comparable amount of vitamin wrote the following concerning her 6. experience with nutrition: C. He reported an 80% cure rate for McCarrison, Sir Robert, Nutrition and National early schizophrenia. Health, London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1936, 24. More than 80 percent of the pro- Rodale, J.I., Natural Health, Sugar and the Francis M. Pottenger malnour- bationers who have come to me since Criminal Mind, New York: Pyramid Paperback, I started using the orthomolecular ap- ished cats simply by cooking two- 1968, 15, 36. thirds of their diet to destroy nutrients proach are living full, productive lives Diet and Crime damaged by heat. He wrote, “Cooked today. Not a single individual who has stuck with the program has ever been meat fed cats show much more irri- Barbara Reed, Ph.D., was one of in trouble with the law again. This tability (than animals fed raw meat). the pioneers in studying the relation- success has been so convincing that Some females are even dangerous to ship between malnutrition and crimi- many professionals at the Municipal handle and three are named Tiger, Co- nal behavior. Barbara became a pro- Court of Cuyahoga Falls have sim- bra and Rattlesnake because of their bation offi cer in Akron, Ohio in 1963. ply taken it for granted. The connec- proclivity for biting and scratching.” She became seriously ill that same tion beween diet and crime, and the Pottenger’s research on the cats was year experiencing profound fatigue effectiveness of the orthomolecular conducted between 1932 and 1942. and lethargy. She also developed vi- approach in restoring self-control to Rodale wrote a book on nutrition olent mood changes rising to giddy and crime. He provides illustrations heights and then crashing to bleak of famous individuals who were ad- lows. She experienced nightmares dicted to sweets. For example, Ivan and memory lapses. Barbara was 33 the Terrible of Russia feasted for years old at the time and doctors told hours on pastries and candy along her she was beginning to go through with alcohol. menopause. Hitler could never get enough of At this point Barbara ran across his favorite whipped cream cakes. He Gaylord Hauser’s book Look Younger was addicted to candy and could not and Live Longer. She ceased drink- Copyright © 2013 by Jim McAfee. All rights reserved. 2 icity, intolerance to food additives, patch” of brain area lies in the brain’s food allergies, and addictions to alco- central lobe and shows up as a dark hol and drugs like heroin. mass on X-rays. Roth discovered this In the 1970’s Dr. Bill Walsh com- while investigating violent convicted pared the hair mineral levels of 24 offenders. Those with damage to this pairs of brothers. The well-behaved part of the brain showed no emotions brothers had normal mineral levels. such as compassion or sorrow when The “boys from hell” had “either very shown brutal and squalid scenes. Roth high copper and very low zinc, sodi- noted that individuals who develop a people with behavioral problems, is um, and potassium levels in their hair tumor or suffer an injury to this part accepted as a simple fact.” or very low zinc and copper and very of the brain can become a criminal. If a tumor is removed the person can be- Barbara Reed tested her prison high sodium and potassium.