Quotes about Hispanic Children from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "We will face many more hispanic children in the future, a few more black children, and about the same amount of white children.
However, we are talking about 72 million children here. Now let us take, for a moment, the viewpoint of a mother who has to raise a child. Usually mothers are responsible for the kids, despite the fact that mothers today generally have to work. In the good old times, mothers could just stay at home, which was probably better for raising children. So what is a mother up against, today?"- Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) |
 "The diagnosis of ADHD remains twice as high among white children compared with black and hispanic children (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2004: 14). Using a different kind of measure, it has been estimated that there was a 700 percent increase in prescriptions of stimulant medications in the 1990s (Diller, 1997). There is no question that the number of children treated with stimulant medications for ADHD and related problems has increased markedly in three decades."- Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.) |
 "Later, she admitted that as a child raised in the segregated South she was exposed to constant prejudice, and although she hadn't recognized it, she had some real fears about dealing with black and hispanic children.
The contradiction between what we say (or think) we believe and how we tend to act in the course of daily living is easy to explain. It's simply that we come to our beliefs through a lifelong series of multidimensional events, not merely through a progression of mental decisions. Belief is so much more than what we think is true."- Ray Dodd, BeliefWorks: The Art of Living Your Dreams (Get the book.) |
 "The odds are worse for black and hispanic children, with nearly one half expected to develop the disease.
Increasingly, overweight and obese children are developing metabolic syndrome—especially if they continue to gain weight. Yale University School of Medicine researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that half of the 439 obese youngsters studied developed various Syndrome X risk factors, including insulin resistance, unhealthy cholesterol, and other metabolic abnormalities."- Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) |
 "Michael Colgan, Nutrition Scientist scary predictions
Overall, 39% of the girls who now are healthy 2V2-3-year-olds and 33% of the boys are likely to develop diabetes.
For hispanic children, the odds are closer to one in two: 53% of the girls and 45% of the boys.
The numbers are about 49% and 40% for black girls and boys, and 31 % and 27% for white girls and boys.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control now reached unprecedented and rapidly increasing numbers among our youth."- Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.) |
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