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The Recipe for Peace May Be What We Eat

Posted on September 12, 2005

Have you seen Young Agrarians? The films explores the benefits of purchasing and eating fruits and vegtables from local farms. When the Appleton Central Alternative High School replaced soda with water in vending machines and hamburgres and french fries with salad bars and whole grain foods in the cafeteria, the results were shocking: the students became nicer. The principle of Appleton Central Alterntive says "I don’t have the vandalism. I don’t have the litter. I don’t have the need for high security." While this is a ripe example of how nutirents affect our behaviour, there are many other studies that all derive the same conclusions.

A recent article in Ode magazine explores the correlation between nutrients and social behaviour and concludes that recipe for peace can be in the foods we eat.

Read Marco Visscher's article "You Do What You Eat".