Alternative And Complementary Medicine | HealthKey: Link Between Vitamins, Kids’ Behavior Explored
on August 8th, 2010 at 12:56 amThat’s the conclusion of some public health experts who are advocating for vitamins and other nutritional supplements to curb youth violence and to increase learning. The controversial idea is getting a fresh hearing in Baltimore, where advocates for the disadvantaged are considering testing it on city kids.
If it’s proven that a tablet a day can tick up test scores and dial down violence, it could be a cheaper and easier means of improving a lot of young lives than costly and labor-intensive treatments, according to the Abell Foundation, which wants to determine whether a Baltimore study would be worthwhile.
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Embry passed the latest data on the issue to the Johns Hopkins University ‘s Bloomberg School of Public Health, where a team will be assembled in the fall to consider the scientific studies and the outlines of a possible study, perhaps in city schools.
Some Baltimore schools, like many others in urban school systems, suffer with low test scores and chronic violence – though the number is down from
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