Malnutrition in childhood makes people aggressive
Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
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Unexpected conclusions have made the American researchers - from a food in the childhood the behavior of the person in the future depends. As scientists have found out, malnutrition in children provokes outbreaks of uncontrolled aggression in the adult state.
The researchers intended to find out whether dietary intake, intake of alcoholic beverages, etc. Were affected. On a condition and behavior of the person, as a result the interrogation has shown accurate interrelation between malnutrition in the childhood and aggressiveness.
Volunteers who participated in the survey told the scientists about their diet in childhood, assessed their emotional state at the present time, noted whether there were problems with monitoring their own emotions and whether they had to use violence against other people and whether it was consciously happening.
As a result, after analyzing the responses of the participants, the researchers found that attacks of uncontrolled anger occur mostly among those who for some reason starved in childhood. Of those who ate relatively well, only 15% at least once in their life showed aggression, while among the "malnourished" in the childhood participants uncontrolled attacks of aggression were affected by about 40%.
Based on the findings, scientists urge governments of all countries to pay special attention to the diet of children, and to exclude cases of starvation or malnutrition. This, according to scientists, will help to reduce in the future cases of aggressive behavior of citizens.
Studies on the impact of poor nutrition on health have been conducted repeatedly, before scientists established that an unbalanced diet not only undermines the health of the younger generation, but also affects the ability to learn. The scientists noted that such children are harder to give new knowledge, they are less familiar with new subjects.
Researchers stressed that addressing the problem of hunger on the planet is a key moment in resolving the issue of armed conflicts and reducing global tension.
Scientists have repeatedly said that the state of health, both mental and physical, depends on the way of life in childhood. For example, one study found that emotional abuse of children provokes migraine attacks. On average, over 7 years in the US, more than 5 million children are subjected to ill-treatment by parents, guardians, etc. Scientists have found that 15% of US citizens are susceptible to severe migraine attacks (this disease is on the 5th place in calls for help from specialists).
The researchers found that there is a correlation between child abuse and the development of migraine - the researchers interviewed and analyzed the health status of volunteers from 50 to 56 years old and found that in half of the cases, participants in childhood suffering from emotional violence from adults in the adult state were are prone to migraine attacks. If in the early childhood a child suffered from physical, emotional or sexual violence, in the future, he has a two-fold increase in the likelihood of migraine development, in addition, such children already being adults are more likely to suffer from depressive disorders and anxiety.
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