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New Prison Diet Aims to Reduce Violence
Updated: Wed, Jul 18 6:38 AM EDT
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Some of Mexico's most violent prisoners will be put
on a new diet rich in iron and calcium to offset the deleterious effects of
excessive manganese that promote violent behavior, program officials said on
Tuesday.
"Manganese decreases dopamine ... and that causes violent behavior,
something we've been seeing since 1970 when the soy-based baby milks, which
contain 50 times more manganese than mother's milk, were introduced,"
explained Joaquin Senderos, Mexican representative of California-based
Violence Research Foundation.
He said a group of volunteers at one Mexico City prison will soon receive
the diet based on clinical studies supported by the foundation.
Foundation founder and president Everett Hodges said prison violence fell by
38 percent during a six-month dietary trial that involved some 133 U.S.
prisoners.
The foundation plans to seek Mexican universities with whom it can
co-sponsor dietary trials in local jails. It would pay for the food while
the university would measure violence reduction in test groups of volunteer
prisoners.
The foundation said it will meet this week with Mexico City prison officials
to launch the dietary experiment. It hopes positive results in Mexico will
lead to similar dietary trials elsewhere in Latin America.
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