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

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

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Fixing America's Food System - Robert Irvine

Published | Video Starts at 40:44

… where they switch the diet, maybe in one wing of the facility and they leave the diet in the other. And the level of violence goes down 40 to 50%. The use of restraints in juvenile detention facilities goes down to 75%. Disciplinary problems, all of those things. And you see that a lot with post traumatic stress. So food is linked to post traumatic stress. They've proven that on study after study. (40:44–40:49)

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Asserts that changing diets in juvenile detention facilities reduces the use of restraints by 75%.

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