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"Joseph Trachtman tells us that a historical link between brain defects and learning disabilities has colored our view of the problem. "In the scientific literature, starting in the early 1860s, we find a French anatomist named Broca reporting two people with lesions damaging the left side of the brain. These people had lost their speech—this came to be known as acquired aphasia, aphasia meaning loss of speech. Shortly after that, there were a number of reports about children who had trouble learning and they were labeled with 'congenital aphasia." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"In particular, several extremely hyperactive children with "confirmed learning disabilities" calmed down and rapidly reversed their learning disabilities under full spectrum light. One little boy, who stood out in the earlier films because he was always in motion and was inattentive, had changed to a quieter child able to sit still and concentrate on classroom routine. His teacher related that he was capable of doing independent study now and that he had even learned to read during this short observation period." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"The other health issues that are most closely associated with the 4-A epidemics, and that are most threatening and disruptive, are: (1) childhood cancers, (2) diabetes, (3) obesity, and (4) learning disabilities. For the most part, these problems revolve around the same essential issues as the 4-A disorders: toxicity, nutritional deficiencies, immune dysfunction, metabolic imbalance, and failure to adequately detoxify." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Larry was also disturbed to know that Matthew, as someone who was older than twelve and currently on Ritalin, would be ineligible for military service (along with over 80 percent of his generation, which was riddled with the disqualifying disorders of learning disabilities, obesity, asthma, severe allergies, ADHD, and autism). The military obviously considered Ritalin use to be a stigma-who else would? Despite all this, Matthew seemed to be making his way in the world. He had good friends, was a star on the school baseball team, and tried out for football but didn't like it." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. 5. learning disabilities. 6. Speech pathologies. 7. Oppositional Defiance Disorder. 8. Insomnia and sleep disorders. 9. Communication disorders. From a conventional psychiatric perspective, Alisa had more than half of these co-morbid disorders, and could have been simultaneously treated for each of them, if Liza had not been such an astute mother. Alisa might have ended up taking a daily smorgasbord of drugs, each targeting a separate problem." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "It's been estimated that up to 50 percent of all children with learning disabilities suffer from high levels of heavy metals, including cadmium and lead. Similarly, reduction of IQ has also been tied to exposure to heavy metals, particularly lead. Pesticides also can affect intellectual function and the ability to learn. Some children appear to be more vulnerable to damage from pesticides than others, due to insufficient production of the enzymes that are needed to break down two of the most common pesticides, diazi-non, and chlorpyritos." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"These toxic exposures can lead to school absenteeism, learning disabilities, asthma, and other chronic health problems. Remember that knowledge is your best defense against these very real threats to our children's health. Involved parents can make all the difference in bringing about the changes necessary to protect their children. If we all join forces with other concerned parents in our community, we can force school officials to do a better job of reducing our children's exposure to lead, mercury, pesticides, and other hazardous pollutants." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "While the main sources of lead exposure are paint dust and old pipes, many children today are coming into contact with this lethal neurotoxin—which has been linked to reduced IQ, learning disabilities, and behavioral and attention disorders?through their toys. Yes, that's right—toys are a major route of lead exposure. Though lead paint has been banned since 1978, and lead piping since 1986, there is currently no law mandating that children's toys be free of this fatal poison (unless they have lead paint on them, in which case the lead paint law applies)." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Environmental Triggers Researchers have linked environmental exposures to a jaw-dropping number of health problems: learning disabilities, hyperactivity, headaches, asthma, allergies, obesity, diabetes, autism, eye damage, pediatric cancer, and even rheumatoid arthritis. In its 2006 environmental health report, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found that "avoidable environmental exposures" are responsible for as much as 24 percent of all global diseases and more than 33 percent of diseases in children under the age of five." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (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.)

"In particular, several extremely hyperactive children with "confirmed learning disabilities" calmed down and rapidly reversed their learning disabilities under full spectrum light. One little boy, who stood out in the earlier films because he was always in motion and was inattentive, had changed to a quieter child able to sit still and concentrate on classroom routine. His teacher related that he was capable of doing independent study now and that he had even learned to read during this short observation period." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"Approximately 5 percent of school-aged children in the US are diagnosed with learning disabilities each year, and the number is rising. A learning disability is defined as lack of academic achievement despite average to above-average intelligence. These children struggle with acquiring, retaining, and processing information needed to succeed in reading, writing, and math, and often have associated problems with self-esteem, depression, aggression, and more. Behavioral disorders in children are often caused by chemicals. Dr." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Children who are deficient in iodine have poorer school performance, more learning disabilities, and lower intelligence quotients than normal children. Childhood iodine deficiency can cause an average lowering of intelligence quotients by 13 points. More severe iodine deficiency can result in hypothyroidism. Symptoms of hypothyroidism (low levels of thyroid hormones in the blood) include dry skin, swellings around the lips and nose, mental deterioration, and a slow basal metabolic rate. Summary for Iodine Main functions: thyroid functions. RDA: adults, 150 meg." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"While academic achievement and real world preparation for life is declining, the frequency of diagnosis of so-called learning disabilities such as dyslexia, specific mathematics disorder and ADHD is on the rise. These things serve as a ready excuse for the fact that educators have failed to educate, and that is the lure. It is much more ecstatic and romantic to be a brain diagnostician than it is simply to be one whose job is to impart the skill of reading." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Even in low doses, mercury may affect a child's overall development, delaying walking and talking, shortening attention span, and causing learning disabilities. Lead exposure presents a unique situation. Because lead is similar to calcium in structure, it takes the place of calcium during the development of the nervous system in a growing fetus. The results can be devastating, causing serious disorders that are echoed in later behavioral and learning problems." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Infants who are born preterm are vulnerable to many complications leading to nutritional deficits and delayed feeding development, including congenital and neurological defects such as cerebral palsy, cognitive and learning disabilities, behavioral disabilities and developmental delays, sensory impairment, cardiovascular and respiratory disorders, and growth impairment [40, 41]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Studies suggest, for example, that aging mice, which have reduced levels of brain polyunsaturated fatty acids, appear to show alterations in neuronal membranes, such that the mice show memory loss, learning disabilities, cognitive alterations, and even decrements in visual acuity, which can be reduced by supplementing the mice with DHA containing fish oil or DHA [217]. Similar findings have also been seen in the rat [218]. It also appears that AD patients exhibit lower amounts of DHA in plasma [219] and brain [220]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Many of these children have learning disabilities, are withdrawn, or have unusual responses to sensory experiences. Behavior can range from total silence to periods of hyperactivity that may include self-abuse. The cause of autism is not known. Recommendations include support of the digestive and immune systems and ruling out food allergies, chemical sensitivities, and heavy metal toxicity. For more information about using enzymes for autism, refer to Enzymes for Autism and Other Neurological Conditions by Karen DeFelice (Thundersnow, 2002)." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Short-term memory problems—as in difficulty holding a thought—and learning disabilities, especially in children, appear to have correlations to Integrator 3. ENERGETIC INTEGRATORS NEUROTRANSMITTERS/HEART MERIDIAN Bioenergetically, the best way to think of Energetic Integrator 4 is as linking the heart of the thoracic cavity with the heart of the cranial cavity—the midbrain." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Scientific evidence links vaccinations to chronic fatigue, autoimmune disorders, aids, learning disabilities, and other health problems. Viera Scheibner notes that the annual death rate in Europe prior to 1940 from diphtheria was "negligible (less than 300 deaths per million)." After this date, when mass vaccinations against the disease were begun, "unprecedented" diphtheria epidemics followed in "fully vaccinated subjects." Mass vaccinations against tetanus and whooping cough also began in many countries in the 1940s, and were followed by outbreaks of the "so-called provocation poliomyelitis." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (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.)

"Nevertheless, in the United States, thousands of parents of autistic children and those with certain learning disabilities are going to the mat to demand a deeper investigation into whether thimerosal has had any role in their children's disabilities. They cite alleged evidence that the CDC covered up critical information that, throughout the 1990s, federal health officials had inadvertently nearly tripled the amount of ethyl mercury being injected into some babies during a critical period of brain development." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Some researchers implicate omega-3 deficiency in learning disabilities such as attention deficit disorder as well. That omega-3 s play an important role in mental function has been recognized since the 1980s, when it was found that babies fed on infant formula supplemented with omega-3 s scored significantly higher on tests of both mental development and visual acuity than babies receiving formula supplemented only with omega-6. Could it be that the problem with the Western diet is a gross deficiency in this essential nutrient?" - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Journal of'Learning Disabilities 27', no. 6 0une/July 1994): 393-398. Muniyappa, R., et al. "Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) Secretion in Healthy Older Men and Women: Effects of Testosterone and Growth Hormone Administration in Older Men. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (August 22, 2006). Needleman, Herbert L., ed. Human Lead Exposure. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 1991. Needleman, Herbert L., et al. "Bone Lead Levels and Delinquent Behavior." JAMA 275 (1996): 363-69. Needleman, Herbert L. "Environmental Neurotoxins and Attention Deficit Disorder." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"This is thought to be one of the major causes, along with mercury from vaccinations, of the increase in learning disabilities and autism among children. MSG has been used by food companies for about 50 years. Reactions vary from person to person. They intensify when one has not been ingesting it for several weeks. Reactions may include headache, insomnia, itching, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, asthma, anxiety, panic attack, mental confusion, brain fog, mood swings, neurological disorders ?Parkinson's, MS, ALS, Alzheimer's ?" - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "Studies have shown that the poisons in vaccinations are a major cause of learning disabilities, autism and mental retardation in children. Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy by David Kirby is one of several books exposing this danger. The drug companies even lobbied to get a rider attached to the Homeland Security Bill that prevents people from suing them for the damage done by vaccinations!" - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Similarly, kids who have dyslexia, dyspraxia (difficulty writing), other learning disabilities, and attention deficit disorder are mostly omega-3 fat-deficient. Dopamine activity, which is critical for brain function in these children, is improved with essential fatty acid consumption. There have been controlled studies showing that giving fish oil to children with these kinds of problems improves reading and spelling in treatment groups and improves conduct in school because the nervous system is very dependent on these fats to function." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "I* Autism rates have increased from 3 in 10,000 children to 1 in 166 children—an elevenfold increase—over the last decade.9 • ?Learning disabilities affect between 5 and 10 percent of school-age children.10 • ?The indirect costs of all these broken brains to society are mammoth.They include loss of productivity at school, home, or in the workplace, accounting for a loss of over $80 billion a year. There is something wrong with this picture. Nearly one in three of us suffers from a broken brain. Is this a normal part of the human condition? No. It isn't." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Coulter considers further the relationship of vaccination to autism, hyperactivity, autoimmune diseases and learning disabilities. Well, here are the facts: Childhood vaccinations can cause various types of mental retardation ranging from a slight drop in IQ to total idiocy. Meanwhile, 9% of the people in the USA during the years 1946 to 1966 are illiterates, the Census Bureau tells us. Mere chance? Another fact: "Today, about 3,000,000 children are born every year in the United States. Of them, 150,000 develop less severe handicaps; 110,000 more severe ones." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Its use has been linked to MS symptoms, brain tumors, sudden death in athletes, Parkinson's disease, brain fog, learning disabilities, ADHD, birth defects, diabetes, emotional disorders, seizures, migraines and more. Diabetics and young women are at particular risk, as they drink a lot of diet soft drinks. A good web site for information on aspartame is www.dorway.com. A good book on its perils is Sweet Poison by Dr. Janet Starr Hull. There are two documentaries about aspartame entitled Sweet Misery and Sweet Remedy. A friend of mine performed an experiment in which she fed aspartame to mice." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

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