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"According to this study, adequate nutrition lowers institutional violence and antisocial behavior by almost half. ?¦¦ Differential Behavioral Effects of Plasma Tryptophan Depletion and Loading in Aggressive and Nonaggressive Men. Bjork JM; Dougherty DM; et al. Neu-ropsychopharmacology, 2000 April, 22(4):357-369. The findings from this study correlate with previous data indicating that men who are aggressive may be affected by alterations in plasma tryptophan." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Teachers and parents should not expect long-term improvement in academic achievement or reduced antisocial behavior. More recently, a thirty-six-month-long multicenter study financed by NIMH concluded that there were no demonstrable long-term positive effects from stimulant drugs.25 The same series of studies also reconfirmed that the drugs stunt growth.26 These results were recorded despite the extreme prodrug bias of the researchers. Why do doctors continue to prescribe these drugs and why do parents and teachers so often go along with it?" - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"A person who needs to move from the west could display indications of antisocial behavior from too much introspection. Their boundaries may become fuzzy from being too empathetic or they may be overly emotional. A person who needs to move into the west may need to deal with prejudices carried through the ancestral line, bring buried issues to the surface to explore them, allow oneself to feel the emotions of a situation, or establish a better sense of self. North Moving to the north on the Medicine Wheel we come into the winter season where a blanket of quiet brings us into sweet repose." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"They found significant declines in antisocial behavior. The scientists revealed, as I have, that sugar and refined foods taken in disproportionate amounts could contribute to antisocial behavior," explains Dr. Schauss, now lead scientist at AIBMR Life Sciences, Inc., in Washington State. Former Ohio probation officer Barbara Reed Stitt, Ph.D., also used to work with bitter, depressed, angry delinquents, who lived on donuts, pastries, white breads, pasta, canned goods, candy, gallons of coffee, and other junk food carbs." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"More and more evidence is showing that those with ADD/ADHD are at greater risk for depression, alcoholism, restlessness, difficulties with careers and relationships, and antisocial behavior as adults. Q Parents of children with ADD or ADHD often have a very difficult time dealing with the behavioral problems of their children. These parents deserve a lot of credit. It is important to remember, though, that the children deserve a lot of credit, too." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"The scientists revealed, as I have, that sugar and refined foods taken in disproportionate amounts could contribute to antisocial behavior," explains Dr. Schauss, now lead scientist at AIBMR Life Sciences, Inc., in Washington State. Former Ohio probation officer Barbara Reed Stitt, Ph.D., also used to work with bitter, depressed, angry delinquents, who lived on donuts, pastries, white breads, pasta, canned goods, candy, gallons of coffee, and other junk food carbs." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"The prudent diet resulted in lower total serum cholesterol levels, and while most health authorities would automatically assume this is a good thing, the researchers noted: "These results are consistent with studies linking relatively low serum cholesterol concentrations to violent or antisocial behavior in psychiatric and criminal populations and could be relevant to understanding the significant increase in violence-related mortality observed among people assigned to cholesterol-lowering treatment in clinical trials. " - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"The amount of omega-3 in a pregnant woman's diet helps to determine her child's intelligence, fine-motor skills (such as the ability to manipulate small objects and hand-eye coordination), and also propensity to antisocial behavior. Omega-3s are anti-inflammatory. Since inflammation is a critical component of virtually every degenerative disease from heart disease to diabetes to obesity to Alzheimer's, and since inflammation itself has been dubbed "The Silent Killer," anti-inflammatory foods and supplements are of critical importance to our health. Omega-3s also support circulation." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

"In every city, women are on the receiving end of more antisocial behavior than men are. Great cities find ways to ensure that women are safe on the streets and welcome in public spaces. When Mockus asked residents what they thought the city's biggest problems were, he learned that the danger, harassment, and hassles women faced in Bogota raised a barrier to women's full involvement in the social life of the city." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"This does not mean that patients with schizophrenia are any more prone to criminal and antisocial behavior than the general population. However, when schizophrenic patients do commit a crime, it often has that 'particularly difficult to understand' quality seen in multiple murders or random shootings. Children who 'shoot up' their schools and citizens who shoot their presidents tend to be schizophrenic because these bizarre acts are usually the product of a disorganized brain." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD, Feel Better, Live Longer with Vitamin B-3 (Get the book.)

"A recent article in the October/November 2006 issue of Scientific American Mind, notes depressed and antisocial behavior in mice, accompanied by methyl groups sticking to genes. It also extends this research to human beings; the brains of schizophrenic patients also show changes in methylation of genes, or acetylization of their protein sheaths." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"They based their diagnoses on parents' recollections of whether the relative had been "hyperactive, aggressive, or reckless as a young child; had been involved in antisocial behavior such as lying, cheating, fighting or truancy at home or at the school; had suffered from distractibility, poor concentration, or had specific learning problems or failure in school." However, several researchers have concluded that parental recall is unreliable for research purposes.5 Moreover, Morrison and Stewart did not adequately describe how they made their (non-blinded) diag- 1. Safer, 1973, p. 179. 2." - Jay Joseph, The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes (Get the book.)

"Numerous studies conducted in juvenile correctional institutions have reported that violence and serious antisocial behavior have been cut almost in half after implementing nutrient-dense diets. But health officials and the pharmaceutical companies want to know nothing about using such simple substances as minerals to help depression or violence. Since the arrival of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antidepressants (SSRIs), and atypical antipsychotics on the market, countless studies have shown the so-called "new generation" of psychiatric drugs to be ineffective and dangerous." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"Much antisocial behavior will likely stem from an urge to satisfy basic needs, including food, adequate shelter, and health care. But it will also reflect the stress of coping with constant fear and uncertainty. In many cases, smaller households will be forced to take in extended family—adult children, elders, and distant relatives—creating a pressure-cooker environment that will regularly come to a boil. As a result, domestic violence and abuse will become even more pressing concerns than in the past." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"In other words, more antisocial behavior that leads to unhappiness and social incohesion. Unfortunately, the damage caused by this aspect of cholesterol-lowering will never be fully elucidated by published intervention studies, as they only record deaths due to violence, not the degree of misery or number of non-fatal violent incidents." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Dr. Schauss's interest in the sugar-hostility connection began while he was working with a 15-year-old boy with a long rap sheet. "This child craved sugar to the point that he was eating half a pound a day, and he'd been arrested about 45 times," recalls Dr. Schauss, noting that a psychiatrist did not diagnose a psychiatric disorder. About three weeks after the youth began a sugar-restricted diet, he became "really polite," his psychological tests improved, he wasn't arrested during the three years Dr. Schauss tracked him, and he didn't relapse into criminal behavior." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"Brown and Borden did a study in 1986 which indicated that between 22 and 30 percent of hyperactive people engage in antisocial behavior.1 That could mean five or six million, or even more, adolescents acting out in antisocial ways, and the best prediction for future behavior is past behavior. Gittelman and colleagues found that antisocial behavior may be present in 20 to 45 percent of ADHD (attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, ADD with hyperactivity)2 children by the time they reach adulthood." - Robert W. Hill, Ph.D. and Eduardo Castro, M.D., Getting Rid of Ritalin: How Neurofeedback Can Successfully Treat Attention Deficit Disorder Without Drugs (Get the book.)

"In six weeks, the placebo group got the vitamin capsule, and the incidence of antisocial behavior got better to the same 75 percent as the other group had. But the group now on the placebo began to go back to their old antisocial behavior. This vitamin capsule cost the state about a dollar or two a week per youngster. They decided not to use it because they have Valium to control behavior, and besides, they feed these kids good food, don't they?" - Lendon H. Smith, M.D., Feed Your Body Right: Understanding Your Individual Body Chemistry for Proper Nutrition Without Guesswork (Get the book.)

"Numerous studies show that hypoglycemia alters our mental and social behavior toward the tamasic, emotional, mental, and moral tendencies of erratic, violent, and antisocial behavior.1112 The lifestyle and diet that create hypoglycemia are some of the first things people who are interested in Spiritual Nutrition would do well to consider changing." - Gabriel Cousens, M.D., Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Life and the Awakening of Kundalini (Get the book.)

"During the 2 year study the number of incidents of antisocial behavior was reduced by 45% in the treatment group. The most significant changes were in the reduction of assaults (83%), theft (77%), "horseplay" (65%), and refusal to obey an order (55%). antisocial behavior changed the most in those charged with assault, robbery, rape, aggravated assault, auto theft, vandalism, child molestation, arson, and possession of a deadly weapon. In the largest study, 3,999 incarcerated juveniles were studied over a period of 2 years." - Michael T. Murray, ND, Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 2 (Get the book.)

"This craving and the need to satisfy it can have enormous behavioral consequences; I believe that the seeds of major antisocial behavior may be traced to an extraordinary craving for sweets. I wonder how many people who break and enter started out as children with this apparently innocuous habit of stealing for sweets. Older children with these addictions may swing over to alcohol and steal that for several years. I have seen alcoholics who began to drink by stealing from bottles in the home and became alcoholic by the time they were age 8." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C), Healing Children's Attention & Behavior Disorders (Get the book.) "Schoenthaler and his coworkers found a definite connection between the quality of the diet and intellectual performance and antisocial behavior. In one study 15 subjects on supplements gained significantly in non-verbal I.Q. compared to 11 on placebo. In a major study on 803 New York City Public Schools, Schoenthaler reported that a four-year study of improved nutrition in these schools increased mean academic percentile ranking above the rest of the nations schools by 15.7 percent. The number of learning disabled children in these schools fell from 125,000 to 49,000." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C), Healing Children's Attention & Behavior Disorders (Get the book.)

"Our research shows that low dopamine, for example, is associated with obesity, addiction, alcoholism, antisocial behavior, and shyness. Q. If I boost one neurotransmitter, isn't that going to create a new imbalance? A. Every brain naturally functions at some level of imbalance. That is what makes each of us unique. The results from the Braverman Nature Test will therefore show some preference for one nature over another." - Eric R. Braverman, The Edge Effect: Achieve Total Health and Longevity with the Balanced Brain Advantage (Get the book.) "When there are deficiencies, less serious antisocial behavior develops. Disturbances in our personality and emotional life are imbalances in our biotemperment. The good news is that the Edge Effect heals these imbalances. We all exhibit low moments in our personalities, and it is interesting to see which biochemicals influence specific "bad" behaviors. Dopamine-deficient personality The loner. When balanced, this person is organized, neat, frugal, and no trouble to others." - Eric R. Braverman, The Edge Effect: Achieve Total Health and Longevity with the Balanced Brain Advantage (Get the book.)

"Diet, Crime, and Delinquency In America and in Britain the incidence of violent, psychopathic, and antisocial behavior is rapidly rising. Prisons are full, and the cost of keeping so many people in prison is becoming unmanageably high. But what is the solution? Perhaps even more depressing than the need for further research into schizophrenia is the need for a research institute dealing with psychopathic, violent, or antisocial behavior. An institute is really needed here, because out-patient treatment of violent and psychopathic individuals is impossible." - Carl C. Pfeiffer, Nutrition and Mental Illness: An Orthomolecular Approach to Balancing Body Chemistry (Get the book.)

"In six weeks, the placebo group got the vitamin capsule, and the incidence of antisocial behavior got better to the same 75 percent as the other group had. But the group now on the placebo began to go back to their old antisocial behavior. This vitamin capsule cost the state about a dollar or two a week per youngster. They decided not to use it because they have Valium to control behavior, and besides, they feed these kids good food, don't they?" - Lendon H. Smith, Feed Your Body Right: Understanding Your Individual Body Chemistry for Proper Nutrition Without Guesswork (Get the book.)

"Four months later he was better, but his antisocial behavior got worse. He lied, made false reports to the police, and began to steal. His ritalin was slowly reduced to 20 mg. His niacinamide was increased to 2 G tid. On September 4,1970 he was much better. I changed the vitamin B-3 to niacin 1 G tid. On October 5,1970 he was normal. In September 1971, after returning from summer camp, he once more began to lie and steal. I increased his niacin to 2 G tid, and on December 3,1971 he was well again. On December 3,19721 decreased his ritalin to 15 mg. He passed into grade 7 with a C average." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C), Healing Children's Attention & Behavior Disorders (Get the book.)

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