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"ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER (ADD) • Martial Arts Moves May Make a Difference In this era when Ritalin is so often prescribed to control erratic behavior of children and adults who suffer from attention deficit disorder (ADD), research at the University of Akron in Ohio has shown that karate may be another treatment to combat ADD. In a small study of clinically hyperactive children over a 10-week period, researchers found that those who took karate lessons, for unexplained reasons, learned to control their impulsive behavior better than children of the same age who did not receive the training." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"Drugs for attention deficit disorder (ADD) may also cause permanent changes to the brains of children taking them. Movements that protest these psychotropic drugs have already come into existence. The protesters point out the fact that many famous people, according to modern "science," would have been diagnosed with "Attention Deficit Disorder" or "Hyperactivity" -lots of creative people in fact. So someone who is different, not fitting into the norm, into the box, is "sick" like Bill Crosby, Dustin Hoffman, James Stewart, Kirk Douglas, Robin Williams, Sylvester Stallone?" - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"The fast growth in the use of these drugs began in the early 1990s, as the pharmaceutical companies increased their promotion and after federal lawmakers made attention deficit disorder a protected disability under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Lawmakers also agreed that families could collect federal disability payments known as supplemental security income (SSI), in cases in which children were impaired by the disorder. Doctors wrote almost five times as many prescriptions for Ritalin and similar drugs in 1996 as they had just six years before." - 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.)

"You see the effects of this in autistic children, as well as hyperactivity and attention deficit disorder." Tests also are available for mineral deficiencies, especially zinc and selenium. Dr. Cohen says that children with autism "may have problems with heavy metal toxicity, which at times can be noted on hair analysis, and these include antimony, aluminum and arsenic. They also may have a history of subclinical hypothyroidism. The thyroid is extremely important for brain function." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "It is no accident that she has focused her energies recently on the so-called "epidemic" of attention deficit disorder (ADD)/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and the huge numbers of prescriptions for Ritalin and other drugs that are being prescribed for it. "There are many studies, here and abroad," she says, "that clearly demonstrate that foods and environmental factors can cause ADD and ADHD. Sixty-six percent of hyperactivity is related to food allergies. Another piece of the puzzle is clearly dust, molds, pollen and chemicals." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Phase two showed significant associations between cumulative exposures to thimerosal and the following types of NDs: unspecified developmental delay, tics, attention deficit disorder (ADD), language delay, speech delay, and neurodevelopmental delays in general. CONCLUSIONS: This study showed that exposure to mercury from TCVs administered in the US was a consistent significant risk factor for the development of NDs." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "By the time he turned five, his prekindergarten teacher suspected an attention deficit disorder with hyperactive tendencies and suggested medical care. We brought him to the hospital and the behavior specialist said that Ritalin would be necessary, along with counseling. Based on our family history of chemical dependency, I felt that Ritalin was not a good option. So I started looking for other possibilities. Two weeks after the diagnosis, we had a birthday party, and I served my boy ice cream, chocolate cake and a glass of milk. He went totally off the wall." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Parents now know that their children might not be intentionally difficult or oppositional; they need help in dealing with attention deficit disorder. Sometimes the ADD/ADHD label is applied in preschool, when a parent or a teacher notices that a child is harder to manage than the other children. The classic signs that lead to an ADD/ADHD diagnosis are physically disruptive behavior and a lack of impulse control. Attention deficit may be very obvious in some children but more subtle in others." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"A randomized double-blind study and a multi-center trial suggested that acetyl-l-carnitine supplementation provided statistically significant support for mental function, including memory and attention deficit disorder, Asperger's Syndrome (a form of autism) as well as behavioral and emotional support. Why Carnitine Deficiency? Although L-carnitine is found throughout the diet and also can be synthesized by your body, research indicates that both primary and secondary deficiencies do occur." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"In recent years, Iowa researchers had tested dozens of experimental products for the industry, from Strattera, a drug for children with attention deficit disorder, to LibiGel, a testosterone cream for women with lapsing libidos. In the promotional materials used to attract the drug companies, university officials offered up their fellow Iowans as research subjects. They explained that among the university's "resources" for the industry was its sprawling academic hospital, which attracted "a large population of potential research participants." - 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 research studies, higher levels of DHA and EPA have been associated with a lower incidence of high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, depression, attention deficit disorder, and dementia. Omega-3 fats also improve insulin sensitivity. More importantly, polyunsaturated fats bind to a variety of nuclear receptors and behave like hormones (Cortisol, estrogen, vitamin D). In other words, both omega-6 and omega-3 fats influence what your genes do, right along with vitamin D and other steroid hormones. This is why diet has such a tremendous impact on your health." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"By '83, the name applied to ADHD symptoms had morphed once more, to attention deficit disorder, even though hyperactivity was lumped in as a symptom. To me, at that time, using Ritalin was too much like trying to nail in a tack with a sledgehammer. You could pound down symptoms in a relatively adequate percentage of kids, but were you really helping them as much as possible? What about root causes? What about the high percentage of kids who weren't helped at all? What about side effects? I was more interested in natural, innovative approaches that seemed to solve the underlying problems." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"We also need a doctor to administer the various childhood vaccinations (another cause of cancer), to prescribe antibiotics for an ear or throat infection, to tell us whether we need to take out the tonsils or appendix, and to prescribe drugs for nervousness and attention deficit disorder because we live on sugar, food additives, and fast foods or are deprived of our parents' loving and caring attention. Furthermore, a doctor is needed to tell us that we need statin drugs for an elevated cholesterol level, diuretic pills for high blood pressure, and an angioplasty to unclog our blocked arteries." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"But after evaluating Willow, the neurologist wrote, "I really feel that Willow fits into the attention deficit disorder category with potential for learning disability." It was another way of saying, "The kid needs drugs." As so often happens, being diagnosed would shape a lifetime. For Willow it became her first step into a brief and terminal career as a psychiatric patient. After the neurologist started Willow on the stimulant Ritalin, Mrs. Barlow dutifully gave her daughter the drug for several months until she could no longer tolerate seeing her child look and act like a "zombie." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Attention Please (Newsletterfor children with attention deficit disorder) 2106 3rd Avenue North Seattle, WA 98109 BRAKES: The Interactive Newsletter for Kids with ADHD Magination Press 19 Union Square West New York, NY 10003 800-825-3089 Organizations/Support Groups American Academy of Pediatrics 141 Northwest Point Boulevard Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 847-434-4000 www.aap." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.) "Over the years, public understanding of behavior disorders—particularly, attention deficit disorder (ADD) and the hyperactive variation (ADHD)—steadily grew through wider media coverage and the availability of resources on the disorder. My understanding of attention-deficit issues grew not so much from reading but from watching children get into trouble at school, lose friends, and miss out on invitations to birthday parties. This was because their particular way of thinking and interacting made them just plain difficult." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.) "They run the gamut from very difficult eighteen-month-old babies to oppositional eighteen-year-olds, but by far, attention deficit disorder is the most diagnosed. For my patients' families, ADD and ADHD represented a life-changing challenge that drove many worried parents to resort, unquestioningly, to drug treatment and all the accompanying side effects. Parents and families in crisis made me realize I had to help them find a way to treat ADD and ADHD without medication. Most kids today eat a tremendous amount of sugar." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Evidence has been mounting that exposure to metals, solvents, and pesticides present in our environment can cause severe clinical neurode-velopmental damage and may be contributing to the prevalence of learning disabilities, sensory deficits, developmental delays, cerebral palsy, autism, attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity disorder, and premature brain aging." - 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.)

"Dr Hoffer] Case #5 attention deficit disorder (ADD) Children today suffer from a large number of serious behavioral and learning disorders, which are caused primarily by the food that they eat. There is a pandemic of sick children suffering from these conditions usually called attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). About 20% of all boys entering public schools and about 5% of girls suffer from these diseases, a remarkable statistic given that in 1950, when I first started to practice psychiatry, there were hardly any cases of ADD." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER (ADD)/ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER (ADHD) Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), or attention deficit disorder (ADD) with hyperactivity, is the newest name given to a group of disorders of certain mechanisms in the central nervous system. With the long list of names this disorder has been given over the years, it can be confusing as to exactly what the criteria are for a diagnosis of ADHD or ADD." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"A visual examination would indicate the focus of treatment should be centered on attention deficit disorder and Hyperactivity. The mother did check two tic symptoms in the moderate column, but close observation of the child convinced me that he did not have any actual tics. We chose a treatment protocol specifically designed to treat ADD and Hyperactivity. This next checklist (see figure 4-3 on pages 54-55) is one that was filled out by a forty-six-year-old, self-employed male. He had separated from his wife the year before." - Robert W. Hill, Ph.D. and Eduardo Castro, M.D., Getting Rid of Ritalin: How Neurofeedback Can Successfully Treat attention deficit disorder Without Drugs (Get the book.) "If you could change the brainwaves of a patient with epilepsy then why not change the brainwaves of a person with attention deficit disorder? This was the basic question asked by Dr. Joel Lubar, professor of psychology at the University of Tennessee. After all, there are similarities among the brainwave patterns in people with epilepsy and ADD. While Dr. Sterman worked tirelessly to help patients train their brains to be more resistant to seizures, in the mid-1970s Dr." - Robert W. Hill, Ph.D. and Eduardo Castro, M.D., Getting Rid of Ritalin: How Neurofeedback Can Successfully Treat attention deficit disorder Without Drugs (Get the book.) "In the early 1980s, I (Robert Hill) was treating attention deficit disorder and conduct disorders with psychotherapy and behavior modification. Ed Castro was writing prescriptions for Ritalin and other psychotropic medications for these disorders. Neither of us believed we were making any progress. In frustration with lack of any consistent and long-term results, I quit seeing children with these disorders and started referring them to other psychologists and psychiatrists. Ed continued to write prescriptions, but he was just as frustrated as I was." - Robert W. Hill, Ph.D. and Eduardo Castro, M.D., Getting Rid of Ritalin: How Neurofeedback Can Successfully Treat attention deficit disorder Without Drugs (Get the book.)

"I find it fascinating that a child can be diagnosed with attention deficit disorder because they can't pay attention in the classroom—but they can play Halo 2 on their Xbox for eight hours straight without blinking an eye. Obviously, if they had attention deficit disorder, that would be impossible. It's not that they have an attention problem—it's that the school just doesn't offer a very interesting experience. Some children are overly hyperactive, overly emotional or do have difficulty paying attention to classroom lessons—but this is something that's usually caused by very poor diet." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Of twenty-three nieces and nephews, he says, six have been diagnosed with a form of attention deficit disorder. Hurley told me he believes many people with the disorder are really geniuses who have been held back because they are not taking meds. His son now works as a mechanical engineer. His daughter got a doctorate in psychology. His clients, whom he coaches through the disorder, include a lawyer, a nurse with a Ph.D., and three engineers from Rockwell Collins, a large military contractor that has its headquarters in Cedar Rapids." - 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.)

"Instead, Warner-Lambert aggressively marketed the drug for bipolar disorder, various pain disorders, Lou Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), attention deficit disorder, migraine, seizures resulting from drug and alcohol withdrawal, restless-leg syndrome, and as a first-line, single treatment for epilepsy. Among the tactics employed by Warner-Lambert were false claims about Neurontin's efficacy and its approval for off-label uses." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"The DSM, as it is commonly called, states that a child has an attention deficit disorder if he or she displays six of nine described behaviors. These behaviors include failing to pay close attention to details, not listening when spoken to, failing to finish schoolwork, forgetting things, or being easily distracted. The doctor may add hyperactivity to the attention deficit diagnosis if the child often fidgets or squirms in his or her seat, runs or climbs in situations where such activity is inappropriate, has difficulty playing quietly, or is often "on the go." - 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.)

"Groundbreaking book by the great psychiatrist that will change forever how you conceptualize, and deal with, attention deficit disorder. Alcoholism and Addiction Clinics The Health Recovery Center Minneapolis, Minnesota 800.554.9155 and 612.827.7800 www.healthrecovery.com Founded in 1980 by Joan Mathews-Larson, Ph.D., the Health Recovery Center in Minneapolis is a program for recovery that uncovers and treats the true physical underpinnings that drive addictions. Tai Sophia Institute Laurel, Maryland 800.735." - 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.) "Too little omega-3 s have been linked to both attention deficit disorder (ADD) and depression. Research at Harvard has shown significant improvement in bipolar depression with large doses of omega-3 supplements. And studies have strongly suggested that increased fish oil intake could reduce anger and hostility in alcoholics, troubled teenagers, and violence-prone prisoners. "Clearly omega-3 fatty acids are essential to good brain health," says my friend Daniel Amen, M.D." - 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.)

"The number of children treated for psychotic disorders or Tourette's did not change; the increase was accounted for by children treated with attention deficit disorder, conduct disorder, and affective disorders. In my opinion a lot of these children suffer from abuse, neglect, and other family disruptions and traumas, not psychotic disorders that need antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotics should be used for what they are approved for: psychosis and Tourette's." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

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