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"The researchers concluded that twin resemblance on environmental similarity measures was not "strongly or consistently" related to behavioral problems. In addition, they found that mothers' correct or incorrect assessment of their twins' zygosity did not significantly alter the results which, they concluded, "lend support for the validity of the EEA."6 A major problem with this study, however, is that the investigators relied on mothers' recollections in diagnosing the four behavioral problems (separation 1. Kendler & Gardner, 1998. 2. Klump et al., p. 51. 3. Ibid., p. 51. 4." - Jay Joseph, The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes (Get the book.)

"If eating healthy foods, getting your child to sleep more, and enforcing exercise do not significantly improve your child's behavioral problems, only then should you look into medication as a treatment option. I readily admit that I've seen families in crisis, where there was an urgent need for fast changes in behavior that only medication can bring. But the vast majority of families who are faced with these symptoms and/or a diagnosis of ADD/ADHD have time to explore natural remedies first. Try the ADD/ADHD cure first. Take charge of your child's health. Let's do it together." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.) "If the scene plays out this way, I know that the child's behavioral problems are damaging his or her social life. The question is valuable to me as I evaluate kids because even though they know they're expected to have friends, and they're aware that their peers and siblings have them, these kids have lots of trouble making friends. And because they don't want to admit this (and who would?), they panic and will blurt out a random name. Children can be brutal when it comes to excluding the quirkier of their classmates. It happens, it stings, and it keeps stinging." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Phenols can cause physical, cognitive, and behavioral problems in people who have impairment of the natural detoxifying process of sulfation. Sulfation is closely related to methylation, and is often impaired in kids with autism and ADHD. Now here's where this whole thing gets even more interesting: Methylation doesn't just help break down toxins. It also helps break down neurotransmitters. Therefore, it helps break down dopamine. And therefore, it helps ADHD kids with autistic features get rid of their excess dopamine, which is a terrible problem for so many of them, as it was for Alisa." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "It can lower IQ, shorten attention span, and increase behavioral problems. These problems are frequently diagnosed as being symptoms of ADHD, and also autism. Lead can also cause serious damage to the kidneys, nerves, and red blood cells. Some people think that eating lead-based paint chips is the only way that kids become toxic from lead, but that is an outdated notion. Lead can also be found in dust, water, certain industrial sites, and contaminated soil. It can be carried into the home by people who work in construction, demolition, painting, in radiator repair shops, or in battery stores." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Another revealing link between autism and ADHD is the fact that people with both disorders tend to share other specific mental and behavioral problems. Following are the co-morbid neurological and psychological conditions that frequently accompany both autism and ADHD. AUTISM/ADHD Disorders Associated with Both 1. Depression. 2. Anxiety and mood disorders. 3. Bipolar disorder. 4. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. 5. Learning disabilities. 6. Speech pathologies. 7. Oppositional Defiance Disorder. 8. Insomnia and sleep disorders. 9. Communication disorders." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Treating ADHD and other behavioral problems depends very much on the individual. "You get the best results by looking at each child and trying to figure out what they need—what are their metabolic needs, their nutritional needs, and so on. Treatment isn't one-size-fits-all—there's no one answer for every child." Most important, since many conventional pediatricians might be unwilling to explore alternatives to medication—which tend to be much more time-consuming and involved—Dr. Bock recommends seeking out an integrative doctor in your area." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "In recent years, some parents and medical professionals have expressed concerns that ADHD might be overdiagnosed in this country, serving as an all-purpose label for a range of different developmental and behavioral problems. Dr. Kenneth Bock, an ADHD expert, acknowledged that increased diagnosis might partially explain the rapidly-escalating rates of ADHD we're seeing. But, he was quick to add, "it's still a very real epidemic." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Teachers will be able to watch for behavioral problems that may signal a lapse in your child's progress, which will need to be addressed at home. They can prove invaluable in helping to prevent lunchtime food trading. It is a good idea to follow up with teachers on a regular basis. All teachers should be happy to help you because they're familiar with the side effects associated with medications and the inconvenience and stigma that go along with taking a midday pill at school." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"According to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, women who ate large quantities of PCB-contaminated fish were more likely to have babies with reduced birth weights, behavioral problems, or impaired immune systems. A recent study of 212 fifth graders in Michigan suggests that prenatal exposure to even very low levels of PCBs can lower children's IQs. Styrene, a petroleum distillate also known as vinyl benzene, has been classified by the EPA and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) as a possible human carcinogen." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"The firm proposed articles that would describe how Neurontin could allegedly treat bipolar disorder, migraines, chronic pain, and behavioral problems. The actual evidence supporting such treatment was limited to nonexistent at that time, although this did not seem to present a problem for the staff at Medical Education Systems, which worked out of offices in Philadelphia. The marketing firm planned to recruit physicians and pay them a thousand dollars each to be the "authors" of the twelve articles." - 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.)

"My skin is clear, and the behavioral problems and anxieties which held me back ceased. I use supplements, an air filter, antioxidants, and Vitamin C. I recently began walking as exercise to lose weight, a current problem. BOB I was a heroin addict and methadone user until 2001.1 was depressed, physically weak with elevated blood pressure and glaucoma. My hair was thinning. It was time for a change. I did not attend a support group but booked a consultation with Luanne Pennessi at Metropolitan Wellness Center and began a series of drips under the care of a naturopathic physician." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "The hyperactivity, attention deficit, and behavioral problems, in my opinion, are all actually a continued spectrum of the same thing." Dr. Buttram identifies several specific groups of environmental chemicals. "Group one consists of toxic heavy metals, of which lead, of course, is the best known. This category would also include mercury, cadmium, aluminum and others. Our concern here is more with the other category, the volatile organic compounds, which are made up of carbon molecules." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Buttram says, "I think there are very good reasons for tying in environmental chemicals with the epidemic we're having of behavioral problems such as attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity. The massive increase of environmental chemicals to which these children are exposed is connected to their symptoms." There are other factors as well. "A combination of subtle brain damage from environmental chemicals, nutritional deficiencies, a crippling of the detoxification systems of the body, food allergies, and an overgrowth of Candida in the system will produce a very sick child," Dr." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "There are more hyperactivity and attention deficit problems, more learning disorders and more behavioral problems." On the other hand, many experts, especially over the past decade, are challenging the idea that this is a real mental disorder and objecting to the way children are being stigmatized by it. Some call ADHD a myth or a "wastebasket diagnosis" for everything else the doctors can't find another name for." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Today most children visiting the clinics, he said, are being treated for mental, emotional, or behavioral problems. Ritalin, or a similar drug like Adderall or Concerta, is often the first medicine these children are prescribed. 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." - 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.)

"Cigarette smoking and obesity are generally conceptualized as a personal behavioral problems. In a limited sense, this is obviously true. Changing personal behavior can and does benefit one's health. Such change should be encouraged in myriad ways. Yet some ctitics have gone further, suggesting that personal responsibility for health should be imposed by outside authority. Such imposition might be promulgated by employers refusing to hire smokers or drinkers, or by health care providers refusing to insure such people.25 We understand the impulse." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Children who are exposed to lead are more likely to have lower intelligence quotients and to develop learning disabilities and behavioral problems than normal children. If women are exposed to lead during pregnancy, especially if they are calcium-deficient, their children may have abnormal neurological development. Lead exposure in adults can increase the risk of kidney damage and high blood pressure. Lead can also be incorporated into bones. This lead can remain in the bones for decades." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"In addition, being left-handed has been linked to some behavioral problems. Some of these problems, however, may be partly the result of parents or teachers trying to force lefties into being righties, a practice that is still widespread in some parts of the world. A recent Dutch study found preliminary evidence that left-handed women were at increased risk for developing premenopausal breast cancer. But the news isn't all bad for southpaws. Lefties appear Among famous southpaws are Leonardo da Vinci, President George H. W. Bush, President Bill Clinton, and Oprah Winfrey." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Ayoub also listed all of the health effects linked to excessive aluminum exposure: flatulence, headaches, dry skin, weak and aching muscles, senility, spleen pain, liver dysfunction, kidney dysfunction, neuromuscular disorders, colitis, memory loss, nervous system activity, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, heartburn, colds, behavioral problems, constipation, numbness, and many other serious symptoms." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"And it isn't just little kids who have autism and behavioral problems who suffer from these peptides. They have also been linked to depression23 and schizophrenia. The critical point to understand is that the total load of insults to your system disrupts normal things from happening in the body—things like digesting the food you eat, distinguishing friendly molecules from foreign ones at the interface between you and the outside world (like the one in the gut), and the activation of the gut immune and gut nervous systems." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"At this point, you'll be able to begin helping your child develop something that has likely been placed on the back burner because of the more pressing behavioral problems: good study habits. We've all regarded schoolwork as a chore at one point or another in our lives. However, for a child to see schoolwork and homework as bothersome and tedious just won't help his or her future success in high school, college, and beyond. In getting your recovering ADD/ADHD child to enjoy schoolwork, you must first have the proper attitude and then you must pass this attitude on to your child." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Lead toxicity has been associated with cognitive and behavioral problems in children.16 In a recent groundbreaking study, lead toxicity and environmental toxins were clearly linked to ADHD.17 By living in a polluted world, playing with toys made in China and coated with lead paint, and crawling around on the floor where shoes drag in the lead pollution from the outside, Clayton was exposed to the dangers of the industrial revolution. He may also have suffered from other environmental toxins like mold toxins from the black mold in his house and food additives we could not measure." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "These breakdowns in the body, which lead to behavioral problems, occur because of genetic susceptibilities, which are amplified by environmental stresses and toxins. Why, she asks, do 95 to 100 percent of autistic children have gastroin- testinal dysfunction, or 70 percent of them have immune system abnormalities? After examining all the accumulated research on autism, including her own work on brain imaging and the structure and function of the brain in autistic children, she concludes that autism is not a brain disorder, but a systemic disorder that affects the brain." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"One study of all the studies of antipsychotics for the treatment of behavioral problems in demented patients found data on 3,353 patients randomized to an antipsychotic and 1,757 randomized to placebo that revealed a 1.2% absolute increase in the death of those patients on antipsychotics. The authors concluded that treatment of demented patients with antipsychotics may be associated with an increased risk of death." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Negative talk = depression, anxiety, behavioral problems, and dementia. Let's look at how this works. The Brain and Stress How do thoughts, perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes affect us? A lot of us have felt that rush of adrenaline in our lives from a near-miss car accident, or other thoughts that we are in danger. One night, a few years ago, I awoke hearing the rustling of papers and banging in my house. I grabbed the phone and called 911. My heart was racing, my breathing intensified, I could see in the dark and could hear the slightest sound." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Because many of these formulas are also devoid of DHA, it is no wonder that we are seeing widespread, intractable developmental and behavioral problems in the children of this country. Of special concern are soy-based formulas, since they too are high in free glutamate as well as phytoestrogens. One of MSG's more alarming properties is its affect on anger." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"No matter what emotional or behavioral problems beset a person, so the reasoning went, the cause could be found in something that had gone wrong, or was going wrong, in childhood. Individuals were regarded as being in possession of naturally healthy brains, with rare exceptions of those with conspicuous brain damage, and only experienced psychological difficulties as the result of unhealthy experiences." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.) "Increasingly, psychiatry became a discipline where behavioral problems were seen as having biological rather than environmental roots, even though no proofs were ever produced for this shift in thinking. Now chemical imbalances and other forms of neurological abnormalities became the fashionable explanations. The contradiction right from the beginning was that, even though psychiatry increasingly claimed a biological basis for behavioral disorders, the discipline never produced any biological evidence to support its contentions." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"Finally, Congress has passed legislation that bans schools from forcing parents to drug their children for behavioral problems. Now, you may think that this wasn't a problem, and you may have never even heard about it. But in fact, it was a huge problem. There have been many cases in which children were denied an education because their parents refused to put them on narcotic stimulants, antidepressants, and other drugs that we now know cause violent behavior and increased risk of suicide." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

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