Publisher's Synopsis
Nutritional epidemiology studies the impact of dietary substances on health and social processes. This study employs multiple regression analysis to investigate the relationships between nutrition, morbidity, birth rate, and crime based on data from Ukraine. The findings indicate that the sale of agricultural products influences morbidity, birth rate, and crime. Both positive and negative effects suggest mechanisms regulating these processes. Birth rate was positively influenced by the consumption of meat, bread, vegetable oil, as well as protein and calcium from plant-based foods. In contrast, vegetables, honey, fish, fats, and vitamins had a negative effect. The caloric intake from plant-based food reduced birth rates, whereas animal-based food increased birth rates among young people but decreased them in older age groups. Crime, in turn, influenced both birth rate and morbidity, reinforcing the systemic nature of these interconnections. The authors propose the existence of socio-biological mechanisms that limit morbidity and crime.
