Result - digestive disorders, allergies, asthma, eczema. Digestive disorders will result in a leaky gut and a build up of toxins in the gut which will cross the gut, and then the blood brain barrier and lodge in the brain - causing ‘foggy’ brain, inability to learn and behavioural problems.
To treat such children the most important thing is to normalise the digestion thus preventing the further manufacture and transmission of toxins to the brain. Dr McBride uses not just a gluten and casein free, but a low carbohydrate diet combined with effective probiotics, detoxification (with vegetable juices), supplementation with vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids and digestive enzymes, plus Epsom salts.
Bernard Gesch, Senior Research Scientist at Oxford and the Director of Natural Justice, in his talk on Diet, Crime and Antisocial Behaviour, first pointed out that although the brain only accounts for 2% of our bodies’ weight it uses 20% of our food derived energy stocks.
Over the last 40 years there has been a massive change in the nature of the fat we consume (1,000 fold increase in the use of soya, for example) and a massive rise in our consumption of refined sugar.
Refining removes 98% of the zinc from sugar and despite awareness that sugar can have a similar effect on the brain to drugs, and the WHO recommendation that it should form no more than 10% of our daily diet, among the criminal community over 40% of their daily diet is sugar. Assessment of the nutritional status of a group of 18-21 year old male offenders showed that 54% had below the Reference Nutrient Intake (the amount necessary to prevent ill health) of zinc, 67% below the RNI for iodine, 73% for magnesium, 75% for potassium while they all showed over 3 times the recommended intake of sodium. The peak group for offending are late teenage males - the moment of maximum growth when poor diet cannot provide sufficient nutrition to the brain for proper function.
Total crime has risen steadily over the generations and community sentencing has shown no improvement in re-offending rates. However re-offending dropped by over 30% for new release prisoners given nutritional training.
(published with permission in writing from:http://www.foodsmatter.com)
