A child is given the diagnosis of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), also
called Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) when he is considered
overactive, cannot pay attention and cannot sit still, ALL VERY subjective
symptoms. ADD is diagnosed four times more frequently in boys because boys
mature more slowly than girls and because boys are put in classes at school
with girls of the same age, so the boys, being less mature, appear to be
hyperactive.
Irritability anger and mental confusion may also be present so these
children are then labeled as having a "Learning Disability." However,
these symptoms are virtually identical to the symptoms of hypoglycemia, low
blood sugar which is caused by the up and down swings of insulin resulting
from eating too much refined sugar.
Attention Deficit Disorder and
Ritalin have become almost synonymous. Up to 90% of children who are first
diagnosed with ADD receive a prescription for Ritalin. At least a dozen other
drugs are prescribed for these symptoms as well. There has been a 500%
increase in the use of Ritalin alone since 1991. Short- term use of these
medications is associated with a 70 to 80% improvement in symptoms. So
naturally, it appears that the drugs have solved the problem. However, these
studies don't show the entire picture.
Very few long-term studies have been
done evaluating the success of amphetamine-type medication such as Ritalin,
for ADD symptoms, and the few studies that do exist do not present a very
encouraging picture. For years, it was thought that children outgrew symptoms
of ADD so they were treated with drugs, until they "outgrew" the
condition.
However, This has been found NOT to be the case. Children do
NOT outgrow ADD symptoms. In 1990, an eight-year prospective study of
hyperactive children was instituted. More than 80% of the children studied had
been treated with medications. Sixty- three percent of the group had received
the Benefit of psychological services and 35% had special educational
accommodations.
At the end of the eight years, 80% continued to have
the ADD symptoms, while 60% had advanced to Opposition Defiant Disorder (ODD)
and Conduct Disorder (CD) diagnoses. (Barkley R., Fischer M, et al: The
adolescent outcome of hyperactive children diagnosed by research criteria: J
Am Acad Child Adoles Psychiatry 29 (4):546-556 July 1990.)
These two diagnoses
are considered to be much worse than the ADD diagnosis. A litreature
review dating back to 1971 showed little to be encouraged about. Children with
ADD were more likely to fail subjects in school and dropped out of school more
frequently. Fewer attended college.
And there were NO statistical differences
between the long-term results of children treated with medications and those
who did not use medications. These studies indicate that there is little
evidence of long-term success with the use of medications for
hyperactivity.
The adverse reactions (side effects) for Ritalin include
nervousness, insomnia, joint pains, fever, anorexia, nausea, dizziness,
palpitations, headache, dyskinesia, drowsiness, increased blood pressure and
pulse, rapid heart rate, angina, cardiac arrhythmias, abdominal pain, actual
psychosis. And there is a major warning in the Physician's Desk Reference
regarding drug dependency.
The Physicians Desk Reference of Drug Side
Effects notes that, regarding the pharmacology of Ritalin: "The mode of action
in man is not completely understood." And this is what you're giving your
child! The pharmaceutical manufacturers admit that they don't even know how it
works. They're just experimenting -- on your child!
Ritalin has effects
similar to other stimulants including amphetamine, methamphetamine and
cocaine. There are 6 million prescriptions for Ritalin filled annually. The
U.S. pharmacists distribute five times more Ritalin than the rest of the world
combined.
No other nation prescribes stimulants for its children in such
volume. In fact, the United Nations International Narcotics Control Board has
on two recent occasions written to U.S. officials expressing concern about the
six fold increase in Ritalin usage since 1990.
Does Ritalin Cause
Cancer? Scientific studies on carcinogenicity were finally released in June
1993 revealing that feeding mice Ritalin, induced liver tumors including very
rare and highly malignant cancers. These results were found at dosage levels
close to those routinely prescribed for children. Animal tests are very good
predictors of human health effects.
In fact, the International Agency for
Research on Cancer suggests that if a chemical is proven to cause cancer in
animals, it should be treated as if it were cancer-causing in humans as
well.
But the response by the FDA and the pharmaceutical company that
makes Ritalin was predictable. The drug company wrote to 100,000 physicians
informing them of the study showing that the drug caused cancer but said "It's
not enough of a signal that we think kids should be taken off the drug." They
reassured the doctors that Ritalin is believed to be "safe and effective" by
the FDA.
Does the public school system have the right to force parents
to accept the drugging of their child? They do in America. But the drug's side
effects, according to vocal opponents of Ritalin, include: zombie-like
behavior, growth suppression, behavior or thought disorders (exactly what it
is supposed to treat) seizures; headaches, blurred vision, scalp hair loss,
barking like a dog and babbling profanities. It can also result in mood
swings, depression, drug dependence and inclination for criminal
activity.
Why would anyone give such a drug to any child?
The
American Psychiatric Association describes a hyperactive child - the target
child for this drug--as follows:
"One who exhibits behavior such as
fidgeting, squirming, answering questions before being called on, difficulty
playing quietly, engaging in physically dangerous activities such as running
into the street without looking, or one who has difficulty following
instructions." That sounds like a normal kid to me!
I hope it's clear
that drugs do NOT cure anxiety, depression nor supposed hyperactivity. In fact
the English word pharmacy comes from the Greek word pharmakeia. Pharmakeia
means sorceries and witchcraft. That's what drugs are - sorceries and
witchcraft because they only treat symptoms while the underlying disease or
condition continues to get worse.
PREVENTION AND TREATMENT
The following steps are ways to help prevent ADD and ADHD and to
reverse the factors that cause them:
1) Change the child's diet to all
natural whole foods. This means fruit, grains and vegetables full of natural
vitamins, minerals and enzymes.
2) Eliminate dairy products and other
animal products because these contain hormones, pesticides, antibiotics and
the diseases of the animal itself.
3) Eliminate caffeine, sugar and
other sweets, processed food, MSG, aspartame (Nutrasweet) and other sugar
substitutes and any foods that contain preservatives, food dyes or other
chemicals.
4) Eliminate eating at fast food restaurants as most of
these apparently use MSG and preservatives, plus the food in many restaurants
often contains less nutrition, but many harmful chemicals.
5)
Encourage the child to eat a lot of raw fruit and vegetables because they are
full of health-producing enzymes, vitamins and minerals.
6. Drink
water, and fresh home-made vegetable and home-made fruit juice. Eliminate soda
pop, caffeinated beverages or milk from cows or any other animal. Rice Drean
(rice milk) from your health food store is a reasonable substitute.
7.
No white bread. Only whole grain bread, either home baked or from a health
food store.
8. No white rice. Only whole grain brown rice and other
whole grains.
9. No peanut butter: It contains aflatoxin, a fungus that
causes cancer. Instead use Almond butter (It spreads like peanut butter and
tastes just as good) from your health food store or other store. Also you can
make home-made cashew nut butter.
10. Get proper rest. Children need a
lot of rest and should go to be early.
11. Get proper exercise daily,
outdoors in the fresh air and sunshine.
12. Eliminate TV watching. It
is reported that children watch an average of 43 hours of TV per week, that's
longer than the average adult work week. While watching, they rapidly become
almost hypnotized. It has been shown scientifically that within minutes of
beginning to watch TV, the brain changes from the alert brain waves (beta
waves) to the hypnotic waves (alpha waves) where the judgment center of the
brain is bypassed.
So the violence and decadence that the child sees, bypasses
the judgment center in the brain and is implanted in the child's brain without
any ability on the child's part to decide whether what they are seeing is
right or wrong. The violence and decadence are accepted by the brain without
any moral judgment being applied to it. It then becomes part of the child's
permanent subconscious. What goes into a child's mind is just as important
as what goes into his or her mouth!
13. Trust in God and teach your
child to trust in God. Study the Holy scripts and pray with your child every day.
Read Bible stories to your child. Children (and adults) become like those they
admire. This has the most calming influence of all.
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