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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “The same thing with schools. When they see testing scores…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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The Mind-Body Connection - Dr. Ellen Vora

Published | Video Starts at 16:08

You know, back to the subject of food, have you looked at any of these prison studies where they change the food in the prisons and juvenile detention facilities and they see dramatic drops in violence and acting out? And The same thing with schools. When they see testing scores dramatically and disciplinary problems diminish, all testing scores increase. Yeah. So the brain is a physical organization and we put mental health as this kind of rarefied thing of this is psychology. (16:08–16:22)

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Asserts that changing food in schools leads to improved test scores and reduced disciplinary problems.

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