A Bad Nutrition Affects the Behaviour of our Society

While I was looking for another topic for my post I read something quite interesting. But did you know that education, and even criminal behaviour is affected by nutritional issues? I knew that bad nutrition promotes illness, heart diseases, and lots of problems on the health of people, but that question really impressed me. Apparently when people suffer from nutritional imbalance, they also can suffer from psychological imbalances.

A study that took place in a prison in Virginia, the purpose of this study was to investigate whether the prisoner’s behaviour would change if the men were made more nutritious. Their first diet consisted of hamburgers, fried potatoes, white bred, cookies sweet snacks, soft drinks and milk shakes. Their diet was changed to whole wheat bread, potatoes, meat, vegetables, fruit, and fish. Amazingly the prisoners' violent behaviour diminished, and when junk food was reintroduced to their diet their violent behaviour returned.

What these studies proved is that bad nutrition not only affects us physically, but it also affects us emotionally, and mentally. We must remember that our brain is a part of our body, and needs nutrients just as other parts of our bodies do. So when we don't have the right nutrition, our brain won’t function correctly. We have to make an effort and have a good nutrition because maybe the cause of the violence in our society could be our nutrition. In a certain way the problem of Poverty (Hunger) creates at the same time crime, which is another global issue we should deal with. It’s incredible that such a thing as nutrition can influence in the behaviour of a society.