Still thinking about tilting at windmills.
From what I am reading, prisoners get like some lame cereal for breakfast. If I had money and yadda -- which I don't -- I would want to make sure they had access to bacon and eggs at least a couple of times a week or even a steak and eggs breakfast. (Steak for the B vitamins, eggs for the cholesterol.)
On the one hand, a lot of American prisoners are Black and I mean it would be nice to get physicals taken of everyone and yada and they likely need to eat LESS pork probably and MORE SALT, but the brain is the highest cholesterol organ in the body and while the body builds 95 percent of that cholesterol in house, it does get five percent from diet.
I have a genetic disorder and I misprocess fats and I don't KNOW how this works for "normal" people, but for ME, when I have been, for example, clearing old residues from anesthesia, I couldn't string a coherent sentence together until I ate a plate of bacon, eggs, flat bread and butter. And then suddenly I was coherent again.
Many Blacks are lactose intolerant. And I am concerned they eat TOO MUCH pork which is high in selenium and raises blood pressure.
So clarified butter is maybe the way to go for potentially lactose intolerant individuals in need of the right fats for their brain (because clarifying it removes the milk solids, so it no longer contains lactose). And eggs.
Not necessarily every day, but at least SOMETIMES.
And somehow they need choice over their food to eat what they WANT to eat because we have a want center and tend to think something we really NEED is DELICIOUS.
And I know where this will go: The papers will bitch about how hardened criminals are eating better than at a five-star restaurant because most people are assholes who want prisoners PUNISHED rather than wanting to somehow STOP them from being career criminals.
How would you start such a program very, very quietly so you have DOCUMENTATION that it WORKS to get them vitamin C and such to bring down fights in the prison and such so you can argue against this bullshit and say "We are doing what WORKS. This is cheap and effective and we have reason to believe will pay dividends in terms of reduced recidivism."
Some people come to prison in part due to a lifetime of not eating healthy. People will whine about them actually getting their shit fixed as "a reward" for behaving badly.
But if fixing their brain STOPS their shit and punishment doesn't, then FIXING THEIR BRAIN is the only real solution. DUH.
Sure, sure, I would love to also do something about feeding poor people better and housing them better and yadda so there are fewer criminals in the future to begin with.
But that future full of wonderful programs doesn't yet exist. What DOES exist is a prison industrial system with an excess of people of color in it, many of whom grew up in poverty while also getting actively bad medical advice.
And we likely can't just take the lot of them out and SHOOT them, so what do you DO with those people? "Punish" them into remaining career criminals who can't fix their lives? Or FIND some means to TRY to rehabilitate them?
From what I am reading, prisoners get like some lame cereal for breakfast. If I had money and yadda -- which I don't -- I would want to make sure they had access to bacon and eggs at least a couple of times a week or even a steak and eggs breakfast. (Steak for the B vitamins, eggs for the cholesterol.)
On the one hand, a lot of American prisoners are Black and I mean it would be nice to get physicals taken of everyone and yada and they likely need to eat LESS pork probably and MORE SALT, but the brain is the highest cholesterol organ in the body and while the body builds 95 percent of that cholesterol in house, it does get five percent from diet.
I have a genetic disorder and I misprocess fats and I don't KNOW how this works for "normal" people, but for ME, when I have been, for example, clearing old residues from anesthesia, I couldn't string a coherent sentence together until I ate a plate of bacon, eggs, flat bread and butter. And then suddenly I was coherent again.
Many Blacks are lactose intolerant. And I am concerned they eat TOO MUCH pork which is high in selenium and raises blood pressure.
So clarified butter is maybe the way to go for potentially lactose intolerant individuals in need of the right fats for their brain (because clarifying it removes the milk solids, so it no longer contains lactose). And eggs.
Not necessarily every day, but at least SOMETIMES.
And somehow they need choice over their food to eat what they WANT to eat because we have a want center and tend to think something we really NEED is DELICIOUS.
And I know where this will go: The papers will bitch about how hardened criminals are eating better than at a five-star restaurant because most people are assholes who want prisoners PUNISHED rather than wanting to somehow STOP them from being career criminals.
How would you start such a program very, very quietly so you have DOCUMENTATION that it WORKS to get them vitamin C and such to bring down fights in the prison and such so you can argue against this bullshit and say "We are doing what WORKS. This is cheap and effective and we have reason to believe will pay dividends in terms of reduced recidivism."
Some people come to prison in part due to a lifetime of not eating healthy. People will whine about them actually getting their shit fixed as "a reward" for behaving badly.
But if fixing their brain STOPS their shit and punishment doesn't, then FIXING THEIR BRAIN is the only real solution. DUH.
Sure, sure, I would love to also do something about feeding poor people better and housing them better and yadda so there are fewer criminals in the future to begin with.
But that future full of wonderful programs doesn't yet exist. What DOES exist is a prison industrial system with an excess of people of color in it, many of whom grew up in poverty while also getting actively bad medical advice.
And we likely can't just take the lot of them out and SHOOT them, so what do you DO with those people? "Punish" them into remaining career criminals who can't fix their lives? Or FIND some means to TRY to rehabilitate them?