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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “The use of restraints and juvenile detention facilities go…”

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

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told

Published | Video Starts at 04:06

And you know, when they do these studies in prisons, which there are many, many of them that you can find on the Internet, the, when they switch from prison, typical prison food to real food, violence level goes down by 40 or 50%. The use of restraints and juvenile detention facilities go down by 75%. The incident rates, all of these metrics for depression and anxiety and violence drop dramatically when you start giving people good food. (04:06–04:11)

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Asserts that healthier diets in juvenile detention facilities reduce the use of restraints by 75%.

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