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"We now have rigorous labor standards for pregnant women, pills to treat impotence and adhd, and circumcision is an unquestioned hospital procedure for 80 percent of American families.5 Those are the stories that shape our reality, some for better, some for worse. The "Alzheimerization" of dementia . . . has served to impede the process of cultural transformation.6 ?" - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Studies have shown that more than 80% of children can be cured of adhd by simply avoiding all processed foods, including soft drinks, added sugars, candy bars, refined white flour and other similar foods. adhd is a brain chemistry imbalance caused by nutritional imbalances and it can be easily reversed in a matter of weeks by altering a child's diet." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Now, parents and doctors worry that every child who fidgets in class has adhd, and that every teenager who can't sleep or hits a rough patch on the road to adulthood is clinically depressed and liable to take his own life. There are children who are impaired by adhd, to be sure, and adolescents who suffer from debilitating and even suicidal depression." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"One study found melatonin to be statistically and clinically superior to placebo in reducing initial insomnia, which is common among those with adhd. In this trial, 27 children with adhd and initial insomnia who were taking prescription stimulants were treated with sleep hygiene methods; those not responding to this treatment were randomized to treatment with melatonin (5 mg). Full remission of sleep disorders was obtained with sleep hygiene or both treatments in 71% of subjects." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

"Don't Blame TV for adhd Symptoms Tara Stevens, EdD, assistant professor of educational psychology and leadership, Texas Tech University, Lubbock. Jess Shatkin, MD, MPH, director, education and training, and child and adolescent psychiatrist, New York University Child Study Center, New York City. Pediatrics. Although previous studies have linked television exposure at an early age to attention problems, a recent study has not found a connection between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and children's TV viewing habits." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.) "Stevens says it's important to note that the children in the study who showed adhd symptoms had not been diagnosed with the disorder. POSSIBLE EXPLANATIONS Stevens offers a number of explanations for why her study came up with different results than others. One previous study that found an association between TV viewing and adhd only looked at children younger than three years. It's possible that the age of the children affects the results, she speculates. The brain is much more "plastic," or malleable, at a younger age, she says." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Furthermore, if adhd medications are given to an overweight child, that child already has a lower brain level of leptin due to existing leptin-resistance problems. This means that overweight children will be more likely to suffer adverse neurologic damage from adhd medications, because they do not have the protection that leptin offers. Addiction There is a fine line between healthy pleasure seeking, eating, and addiction. Pleasure in response to doing something is a reward, tied to dopamine function. All such brain circuitry is intimately associated with leptin and appetite." - Byron J. Richards, The Leptin Diet: How Fit Is Your Fat? (Get the book.)

"One, on display and in almost constant use at the APA convention, was a combination of high-tech goggles that showed how difficult it was to read and organize information from the point of view of an adult with adhd. It was, literally, a simpatico headset. At the 2003 APA convention, a new diagnostic tool emerged. It was not a test so much as it was a series of "profiles" of the adult ADD sufferer who might benefit from pharmacology. As Dr. Calvin Sumner, an ADD expert who just happened to be hovering near the Concerta exhibit explained, "ADHD is not a disease, it's an organizational disorder." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"We don't really have parallel data for adults, but from what I've seen, it's important to get the heart rate up there — maybe 75 percent of your maximum for twenty or thirty minutes. For adhd in particular, the complex, focus-intensive sports such as martial arts and gymnastics are a great way to tax the brain. By engaging every element of the attention system, it holds you rapt. These sports are just more interesting than running on a treadmill, and participation tends to be self-perpetuating—it's easier to stick with it." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "To the extent that adhd is a lack of control—of impulses and attention—the performance of the prefrontal cortex is critical. The seminal 2006 study from Arthur Kramer of the University of Illinois used MRI scans to show that walking as few as three days a week for six months increased the volume of the prefrontal cortex in older adults. And when he tested aspects of their executive function, they showed improvement: in working memory, smoothly switching between tasks and screening out irrelevant stimuli." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Biederman had worked closely with Novartis, as well as with most of the other manufacturers of adhd medicines. In 2006 he disclosed that he was a paid adviser to six drug companies, a paid speaker for six companies, and a paid researcher for ten companies. Dr. Biederman coauthored the article with eight other scientists, including five employees of Novartis. In 2005, Dr. Biederman was found to be the most highly cited scientist in the field of attention deficit disorders. By then he had written 294 papers, which had been cited in other journal articles almost seven thousand times." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Zametkin and his colleagues found that the group with adhd showed 10 percent less brain activity than the control group, and the largest deficit was within the prefrontal cortex, which has a firm hand in regulating behavior. It's also prone to positive reinforcement through exercise. SIGNS OF TROUBLE The phrase "attention-deficit disorder" didn't even exist until it was introduced in the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual in 1980. Since then, we've debated whether to establish separate diagnoses for the two primary categories of symptoms— inattention and hyperactivity." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"This in turn can cause such disease processes and conditions as depression, anxiety, learning disorders, autism, adhd, multiple sclerosis, and brain diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Poor memory, "brain fog," and unexplained numbness can also be the results of toxins impinging on an otherwise healthy nervous system. Autism and Vaccines? This is a hotly debated topic today. Autism, which afflicts a record 1 in 150 children, involves the destruction of the myelin sheath surrounding the nerve fibers in the brain." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Let's stop overmedicating our kids and start looking for the root causes of conditions like adhd. Maybe then—with a little help from zinc and other nutrients—we can start to reduce the number of school-age children in the United States who are currently diagnosed with this disorder. The Zinc Taste Test Nutritionists have used a test for years called the zinc taste test. Here's how to do it at home: First you get some liquid zinc. (Liquid zinc is available at better health food stores or through health practitioners." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"This behavior was the same across the board in the children who had adhd, those who had allergies, and those with neither of those diagnoses. The Bottom une If your child does have a learning or concentration problem, the first step is to work with his or her teacher to improve concentration and attention in the classroom. Have the teacher send home work that was not completed in school. Sit with your child in an environment free of distractions and help him or her focus on the work." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "NOREPINEPHRINE REUPTAKE INHIBITORS AND OTHER STIMULANTS Atomoxetine (Strattera), which blocks uptake of norepinephrine into the neurons, is also used in the treatment of adhd, but unlike Adderall and Ritalin it is not a stimulant and is therefore not associated with cardiac side effects. It does, however, have other side effects, including indigestion, fatigue, dizziness, decreased appetite, and mood swings. Like Adderall, Strattera can inhibit growth in children." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "Ironically, socialite, hotel heiress, and tabloid favorite Paris Hilton recently admitted during a post-jail interview with Larry King that she takes Adderall for adhd. Adderall has some serious side effects, however. Amphetamines are also used as diet pills, and as a consequence Adderall often has serious appetitesuppression effects: Remember that Jack lost ten pounds when he was taking the drug, a substantial loss for a young boy." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "If there is an improvement in concentration with one of the adhd drugs and it helps your child achieve and be happy, that is what is most important. Drug Use Common, Benign Side Effects Serious Side Effects ............- Life- ! Reasons threatening [ Not Side Effects to Take ......" - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"The brochure went on to say that Ludwig van Beethoven, Alexander Graham Bell, and Albert Einstein all had suffered from adhd, information the writers attributed to a website selling a nutritional supplement. Demographically, the highest users of drugs like Ritalin are ten-year-old white boys, who had long been featured prominently in advertisements by the stimulant manufacturers. Novartis executives decided, however, they would not forget the girls. They saw girls as a market that had not yet been fully tapped." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"In these short-term, controlled clinical trials (six to eighteen weeks long), the rate for suicidality in the adhd children taking Strattera was relatively small (0.4 percent), but the rate among the same or similar children given placebo was zero. Most important, notice the warning about "clinical worsening," an apt description for what happened to Dr. Vernon Kirklander. Later in the FDA-approved label for Strattera, there is another warnings section separate from the black box." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"When he started dating her, he said, he noticed her office was cluttered with piles of papers, one of those "classic adhd things." But it was not until he helped her move, he said, that he knew she had the disorder. "I opened a box marked 'Kitchen,'" he said, "but there wasn't anything for the kitchen in it." His son went to Dr. Gersh two years after he did. He was diagnosed when he was a junior at Iowa State. His daughter got her diagnosis in seventh grade. Of twenty-three nieces and nephews, he says, six have been diagnosed with a form of attention deficit disorder." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "For example, a 2002 newsletter for Iowa's school nurses detailed a new study that found that 15 percent of white boys in the fourth and fifth grades in Johnston County, North Carolina, had been diagnosed with adhd. The headline in the Iowa newsletter: impact of attention deficit-hyperactivity may be underestimated. But Ritalin is often just the beginning of what becomes a long history of medications for the child. The stories that Dr. Lobas and Dr. Collins tell of the increasing number of children on multiple meds have been confirmed in studies from around the country." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Experts estimate that just over 4 percent of American adults— that's thirteen million people—have adhd, which is not to say that the remaining 96 percent of the population is completely free of attention problems. To a certain degree, everyone suffers from fleeting attention. And as I've mentioned, there are varying degrees of severity for many mental health disorders — shadow syndromes, which are personality traits that don't necessarily meet the full checklist of symptoms doctors rely on to make diagnoses." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"A diagnostic test for adhd does not exist." So imagine: no single test is in existence for this disorder. There are theories of "comprehensive evaluations," but let us repeat "no single test is in existence." There is a host of diagnostic problems. Nevertheless, this "disease" gets diagnosed over and over. The first diagnostic mistake is the fact that there may be many different reasons for a child to be hyperactive or be unable to focus." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"These disorders can be allergies, immune dysfunction, adhd, intestinal problems and the like. 2) Dysbiosis and Leaky Gut Syndrome A few hypotheses for the cause of autoimmune disorders are leaky gut syndrome and dysbiosis. Leaky gut syndrome is characterized by the gut lining of the intestinal tract as having small perforations or opening in the tight junctions of the cells, allowing waste and food particles into the bloodstream. Due to the nature of the body's immune system, it mounts an inflammatory attack on these particles." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.) "It is useful for depression, adhd, nervous conditions and schizophrenia. NUTRIENT DEFICIENCIES Some people think that food cravings are related to nutrient deficiencies. Most often it is not the case but more of a hormonal problem such as blood sugar instability or emotional stress. The simplest way to combat food cravings is to eat a well-balanced diet and use a good quality multiple vitamin." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.) "These disorders can be allergies, immune dysfunction, adhd, intestinal problems and the like. 2) Dysbiosis and Leaky Gut Syndrome A couple of hypotheses for the cause of autoimmune disorders are leaky gut syndrome and dysbiosis. Leaky gut syndrome is characterized by the gut lining of the intestinal tract having small perforations or opening in the tight junctions of the cells that allow waste and food particles into the blood stream. Due to the nature of the body's immune system, it mounts an inflammatory attack on these particles." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Instead, as treatment for his mistaken diagnosis of adhd, Vernon's doctor put him on Adderall, a mixture of old-fashioned amphetamines. Thus, he subjected his patient to increased overstimulation. Soon the dose was raised to 60 mg per day, about double the usual maximum amount. The man who had become manic on large doses of a very mild stimulant, pseudoephedrine, was now being prescribed very large doses of an exceptionally strong stimulant, amphetamine. Meanwhile, Vernon remained on the Klonopin he'd been taking for years." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"It is the same with processed foods, only more dangerous because adhd behavior is often mistreated. The child is stigmatized and left with a lifetime of drugs to take to keep him or her in line. The health care industry's solution to adhd is to prescribe antidepressant drugs that have a history of causing "suicidal attempts and other self-injurious destructive behaviors." It is shameful. Studies and real-world examples in schools show that eliminating these harmful additives from children's diets results in clearer focus, higher test scores and fewer classroom disruptions." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"These learning difficulties are not adhd, and medication would offer little help. When medication substitutes for academic help, it is like covering a festering abscess with a tiny bandage. In time, the sore grows larger and creates greater problems in the end. Failure to properly identify a learning difference only causes suffering, academic failure, ridicule, and defeat. Few if any teachers can properly estimate a child's potential or intelligence without the benefit of educational testing." - Julian Stuart Haber, ADHD: The Great Misdiagnosis (Get the book.)

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