Yesterday I went to an extremely interesting briefing on the criminal justice system. There are more people than ever before in prisons.  Yet there is less recorded crime.

How can this be?

I wonder if the policy makers have looked into the research findings of Bernard Gesch? I attended an Open University course on well-being about three years ago, and Bernard Gesch was a keynote speaker.  He had done some research into diet and re-offending. It was not insignificant research: his cohort size was significant. He had found out that programmes to teach prisoners how to eat healthily were more successful in cutting the rate of re-offending than the normal rehabilitation programmes. His work had been recognised in Scandinavia but not in the UK.

There is a huge groundswell of research to back up the links between antisocial behaviour and fast food.

I wonder if this will be taken up in the forthcoming Local Government Information Unit  report to be launched next week by the All Party Parliamentary Local Government Group at Westminster?