Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Criminals Who Eat Processed Foods More Likely To Be Discovered, Through Fingerprint Sweat Corroding Metal
Dr John Bond, a researcher at the University of Leicester and scientific support officer at Northamptonshire Police, said processed food fans are more likely to leave tell-tale signs at a crime scene.Dr Bond, from Northamptonshire Police Scientific Support Unit is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Leicester’s Forensic Research Centre. He has developed a method that enables scientists to ‘visualise fingerprints’ even after the print itself has been removed.Dr Bond said: “On the basis that processed foods tend to be high in salt as a preservative, the body needs to excrete excess salt which comes out as sweat through the pores in our fingers. Dr Bond added there was therefore an indirect link therefore between obesity and the chances of being caught of a crime. “Other research has drawn links between processed foods and obesity and we know that consumers of processed foods will leave better fingerprints,” he said. I found that this article was very interesting because i did not know that what a perosn eats affects their discovery in a crime.
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Yasaman, I found this article extremely interesting. I did not knoe that process foods cause you to sweat more. I also find it interesting, by default, that means that obese people are more likely to get caught, due to their more prominenet fingerprints. You could have added more abuot specific acses that this has been used in, and maybe the science behind retrieving the finger prints. All in all, this was an interesting article.
I thought this was very interesting, as it pointed out the links between what we consume and what we emit, it is obviously a new science, and it was very unique. That being said, it was relatively short and used too much quoting. However, it was very interesting to read!
I thought this was very interesting, it showed me that what I eat can really affect what I sweat, which is useful to know. While the article was a tad short and had alot of quotes I thought it was very interesting to read.
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