SOCIETY AND THE CRIMINAL
Sir, —Since writing on the importance of good food, etc., on human behaviour, I have found medical evidence to support me. John H. Glynn M.D., in his “The Story of Blood,” tells of an expetiment on a number of human volunteers with amino acids (the building blocks for protein) as follows; —“Most surprising of all, when one particular essential acid was left out the subjects complained bitterly. It was not an ache or a pain or any recognisable symptom. They just felt awful. Much as they recognised the importance of the experiment, they felt so badly that they threatened to go out and eat a beef steak unless this particular acid were replaced. We still don’t know what this particular acid does in the body." I wonder how many of these so-called criminals and delinquents just “feel awful” through faulty diet.—Yours, M. G. DAVIES. Kowai Bush, June 7, 1956.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27990, 9 June 1956, Page 5
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