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i by Dean J. Kelly VIOLENCE AND VANDALISM Part 1 The senseless vandalism in Brooklin as reported in last' weeks Star, to the Arena, Post Office, Civic Administration Bldg. and the Community Centre reminds me of the broken store windows, the -wrecking of the Bulletin Board in front of the Post Office and near riot on the main street a few years back on Halloween night. The Fire Dept. was called out by the O.P.P. who were trapped in their cars by the violent mob, to hose down the vandals. Recent figures show that vandalism is usually done by males, aged 14 to 28 years. While teenagers are given the Tight to drink at 18 and to vote, a survey in the 1974 U.S. elections showed that only ONE out of five youths (aged 18 to 20) bothered to vote. Are these the people who will be running the country in a few short years? VANDALISM in Metro Toronto schools cost $2,200,000.00 in ONE YEAR. It's so bad they are installing surveillance systems to the tune of $5 million and they say it's worth it. Vandalism hasi DOUBLED since 1970, confirming what this columnist has said for years that we are a sick society. ANTI- SOCIAL behaviour has anumber of causes but the poor eating habits of our school children has a direct and damaging effect on the thinking of todays youth. Lack of PROTEIN in the Diet causes Aggressive behaviour. A survey of the eating habits of convicted criminals show that their diets were mainly carbohy- drates and sugar. PREVENTION publishers have written an entire book on the subject called SUGAR AND THE CRIMINAL MIND. World authority on sugar and its damaging effects on health is Dr. John Yudkin M.D. Ph.D., Professor of Physiology at Queen Elizabeth College of London University and later Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics in London, England, says "If only a fraction of what is already Known about the effects of sugar were to be revealed in relation. to any other material used as a food additive, that material would promptly be banned. Dr. Yudkin calls sugar the 'Quiet Killer" and "deadly dangerous". He wrote a book on the subject called "Sweet and Dangerous' (Bantam). Dr. Oscar Resnick, Senior scientist in experimental Ww ester r F Foundation in : Shrewbury, Mass. and two colleagues conducted a 2 2: EE year study on the affects of lack of protein in the diet (too much sugar). They found "by correcting the protein imbalance in humans early in life we could definitely aid limiting violent behaviour and reducing crime". The researchers found that a protein defic- iency caused a failure of the brain to produce a chemical substance called "biogenic amines'. These -amines have been linked to cellular lesions in the brain which have been associated with aggressive behaviour. JUNK FOODS are loaded with sugar (and fat). It's little wonder, our children can function as well as they do. The lifespan of an obese person is said to at least 20 years less than a person of normal weight. Diabetes, heart disease, ulcers, learning disabilities, schizophrenia, have all been related to sugar. The first step is getting children off sugar-loaded soft drinks and have them drink more milk. Adults use less coffee and cut down on tea. No white bread, pastries or anything containing white sugar and white flour. One piece of apple pie and ice cream contains 18 : teaspoons of sugar. Use only 100 percent whole wheat bréad and rolls. Brown bread is coloured with caramel colouring (sugar). 8 ox. of cola contains 96 calories. Caffeine in cola @rinks and coffee have been branded as an addictive drug by the Addiction Research Foundation. RECOMMENDED READING: If you care about your health, mental as well as physical read NUTRI- -TION AND YOUR MIND - The Psychochemical Response by Dr. George Watson, former Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Southern Cali ( Harper & Row). check with your library, or book store. He spent two decades researching and treating depression, and mental problems with nutri- tion, aided by W.D. Currier M.D. Medical Director of the Lancaster Foundation for Scientific Research. To put it simply, EVERY FUNCTION OF THE BODY INVOLVES A CHEMICAL PROCESS. When we get sick, 'we are suffering from a metabolic upset - a chemical imbalance. The brain is especially suscep- tible to changes in body chemistry. Headaches and hangovers are indications of metabolic upsets of a temporaty nature while mental problems are a manifestation of elaborately disordered metalbolism-- especially of the enzyme systems. Mental disorienta- tion can happen by eating certain foods or the lack of others, (Continued next week) I recall as a boy, a merchant in my hometown had a saying posted on his wall. He raised two sons to be doctors'one of which I went through school with. The . saying was "TO AVOID CRITICISM... Say nothing... Do nothing. GOOD MUSIC: Searching for relaxing music on FM can be a problem with so many thundering commerc- ials and rock and roll stations. WBNY at 96 on the dial has the finest. music 2 hours a day. Less talk and more music. Lilla lament .Lilla Street, over 100 years a beautiful part of the community of Port Perry, died May, 1976, after a lengthy bout with Regionitis. Born. in the 1800's, Lilla Street spent all of its life here providing shade trees, scenery, and a special small-town flavour that made Port Perry an attrac- tive place to live. It was a tacid adherent of fhe belief that people, not machines, come first, and was one of the few hold-outs in the plastic-and-glass trend to modernize, enlarge and expand. Lilla Street died on the operating table as Doctor Durham operated with chain' saws for scalpels and back hoes for forceps. Surviving are very few others. Funeral service for Lilla Street was attended by 3,400 residents of Port Perry. Friends of Lilla Street would greatly appreciate any donations in lieu of flowers be held until the next such occurrance, in the yet-untried theory that a more unified opposition could thwart such happenings. .~ Drugs a concern It may have been all said .before, but last Wednesday's public forum on Alcohol and Drug Concerns proved the most successful event so far by the fledgling Scugog Social Planning Council, reveal- ing an interest and concern in a subject that has in recent years become almost blase. For those of us who figured we knew just about all there's to know about the drug problem, there were some examples of how much the general public doesn't know. A short "test" passed around before the meeting began,. revealed .that perhaps even. in- : 1976, we don't know the extent of the problems, let alone the answers. Yet there was a large enough crowd there, indicat- ing there are more than a few of us who are concerned. A hard fact proven over and over again is that alcohol is by far the most. dangerous '"drug" on the scene today, with more and more young people being hooked. Seems the mass hysteria of just a few years ago over the use of such 'hard drugs as LSD and Speed has helped to drive alcohol to even higher levels of acceptability. One can't help but think of the parent who, seeing junior coming through the front door in a drunken stupor, says to mother: 'Sure am glad he's not on drugs." Who's to blame is perhaps the question that most of us ask the most, and we never fail to level the accusing finger at...the other guy. As Dr. Cohoon pointed out at the forum, why blame government, schools or the dozens of other scape- goats for a problem that starts right. in the home. That's where the answers...or at least the start of the answer...must come from. We seem to put too much emphasis on such things as legislative restriction and dollars for programs. The audience at the forum was no different from the reaction of society in general in their eagerness to legislate or regulate someone else. For example, a majority of people felt it appropriate to raise the legal age for drinking up from 18, yet it might be appropriate to point out that' the majority at the meeting were well over 18. It was generally agreed that alcohol's detrimental effect knows no age barrier, so we wonder what the bote would have been had a show of hands been asked for barring alcohol altogether. To put it simply, the 20-and-over would probably vote to raise the age to 19, the 21-and-over to 20, and SO on. Simply put, we all séem to resort to the same answer when if comes to need for for more respon- sibility. 'Yeah, but not me. * Interesting to note, if not significant, was that a good-sized group of young people chose tp leave the seminar after some "'adult" chose to make political hay out of the discussion. How . does 'your government' justify health and welfare cuts in the light of drugs and alcohol problems?' one questioner asked panelist Bill Newman, MPP. Seems those young people who got up and left realized that the question had nothing to do with the issue at hand. .