Just published in the British Medical Journal are the results of a study that shows a clear connection between hyperactivity in children and chemical additives in foods.
Removing junk food from a child's diet is a simple treatment that has no side-effects and plenty of positive effects compared with drugs which have horrendous side-effects such as nervousness, insomnia, anorexia; nausea; dizziness; palpitations; headache, cardiac arrhythmia; abdominal pain etc., etc.
A study by the Montreal Children's Hospital found that after five years hyperactive children who received drugs (either Ritalin or Chloropromazine) did not differ significantly from children who had not received them. Although it appeared that hyperactive kids treated with Ritalin were initially more manageable, the degree of improvement and emotional adjustment was essentially identical at the end of five years to that seen in a group of kids who had received no medication at all.
Of course the big difference between the kids who took no drugs and those that took the drugs was that pharmaceutical companies made no profit from the kids who took no drugs. And the non-drug kids didn't get any of the horrible side-effects.
So why are these drugs used at all if the end result is the same as if the kids took nothing? As the legal profession says "cui bono?" (who benefits?)
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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Although it appeared that hyperactive kids treated with Ritalin were initially more manageable, the degree of improvement and emotional adjustment was essentially identical at the end of five years to that seen in a group of kids who had received no medication at all
Exactly. So basically if you do nothing the "ADHD" goes away. In other words it's a normal part of child development. They go through a "hyper" phase and then it goes away. So why put them on dangerous and addictive drugs? Unless profit is your motive of course.
What Montreal study are you citing? It would be nice to see the study for myself just to verify what you're saying, since you'd have to agree that if you're saying kids given medication and kids not given medication were equally unmanageable you can see how I might see that a a bit of a stretch.
I have seen the food additive story before and I agree that if you feed a kid unhealthy food they won't behave well, but I'm not sure that equates with the disease being "fake", merely that the disease flares up with certain stimuli.
aligote,
For the study you ask about - follow the "horrendous side-effects" link in the article.
ADHD is a fake because a "disease" that has no physical test to prove its existence, but relies on merely subjective evaluation by a psychiatrist or psychologist, is not a disease. At the most it is a list of observed symptoms without a known cause.
Grahame,
First of all ADHD is not "fake" and although you're correct a test is not available however the mechanism is largely well known. ADHD affects dopamine receptors in the brain causing them to be less efficient. The drugs cause more dopamine (in all but stratera which slows them down).
Secound, coming from a family that has one parent with ADHD and all of the kidds with ADD or ADHD, Having a girlfriend with both parents diagnosed with ADD and all four kids with ADD/ADHD, Having a best friend with both parents with ADD and all three kids with ADD.... I do not doubt the genetic connection of ADD.
Third, Many known ideas have accumulated about ADD which are not 100% clinically validated. The main one has to do with how people with ADD (and people I know with ADD) because dopamine is less effective do not react to cocaine in a positive manner.
In Conclusion.....
ADD/ADHD is nowhere near fake.....
Try sticking to some scientific facts.... Just because some might be misdiagnosed in rare cases due to food habits this does not mean that even close to a majority are.
For Example: my girlfriend hates sweets and she snacks on salad.... I doubt the salad would classify as a junk food......
Hey Joshua,
If there is no test to show that a "disease" exists then how can anyone say it exists?
There are plenty of theories about receptor sites and neurotransmitters but there is no actual proof.
The fact is that ADHD and ADD are a set of symptoms, they are not a disease. To diagnose a person with ADHD or ADD simply stops you from looking any further to see what is really causing the symptoms.
You and your family have my sympathies. I hope that some day you look further than a cop-out diagnosis.
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