Dr. John Breeding: Drugging Dissident Children
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Bob Emmett wrote:
This would mean that all the kids I was at school with (except the biddable minority) exhibited symptoms of ADHD.
Yes, ADHD and being a young boy definitely have a crossover, if looked at as a list of symptoms. That's one reason that so many lazy parents just want to drug their normal kids.
Bob Emmett wrote:
Well, if it is anything like the laundry list of disparate symptoms linked to above, he would be.
No, it's not. Those symptoms don't provide a diagnosis, they provide a trigger for more detailed testing, which then provides a diagnosis. A bit like persistent stomach pain may be an indicator of cancer, but does not provide a diagnosis, only a reason to do testing.
Bob Emmett wrote:
So, does your son exhibit Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) symptoms due to a chemical imbalance of the brain, or due to a reaction to processed foods?
This is not a dichotomy. It's because of how his brain is structured that he has the reaction he does to specific foods, which then enhances his AD like symptoms. The same as the pills that make your grandfather feel better, can kill you, because you start off from a different point, physically. Incidentally, another part of his problem was a poor school environment. He was in a big class and recieved little to no positive feedback, having been labelled as a troublemaking kid. We moved him to a smaller school around the time we started the diet control and the two together changed his school life to be almost the entire opposite of what it was.
Bob Emmett wrote:
Are the children of the poor, whose diet generally contains a higher percentage of processed food, routinely given drugs, rather than advice on an improved diet?
Well, advice on a good diet is everywhere, but people both don't care, or keep buying the processed food b/c it's cheaper. My wife knew someone whose children, from birth, had Coke in their sippy cups. Some people are just plain ignorant, and sometimes, that's part of the reason they are poor. I'm not saying that all kids who are ADHD can be controlled via diet, Calvin is on the spectrum, but not enough to be an extreme case. So, you mix bad diet ( which can be a trigger ) with lazy parents, who also show their laziness in not providing structure, which can also create behaviour from yo
I'm glad that you got your son sorted. I have only second hand experience of AD(H)D, kids of colleagues and de-schooled kids. In all cases a change of diet and/or environment solved the problem. (I have seen the same class of boys running riot with some teachers and working quietly through the lesson with others. And, no, no physical punishment - just that those teachers paid as much respect and attention to the boys as they demanded of them.) Note, I am not saying that there is no such thing as AD(H)D, just that there are too many misdiagnoses of it.
Christian Graus wrote:
advice on a good diet is everywhere
True. But dietary advice is also purveyed by MSM, which gives contradictory advice every other month. How are the ignorant to know which Doctor to believe?
Christian Graus wrote:
keep buying the processed food b/c it's cheaper
Inevitable when you are poor.
Christian Graus wrote:
My wife knew someone whose children, from birth, had Coke in their sippy cups.
I hope your wife dissuaded her from such a practice. Did the mother have Coke in her sippy cup as a child? Many mothers put fruit juices in sippy cups, as a healthy option. :rolleyes:
Christian Graus wrote:
lazy parents ... people both don't care ... people are just plain ignorant ... lazy parents ... lazy parents
:) Bad parenting begets bad parenting. It is difficult to break the chain. Both parents need to be in accord, and often need support, but support groups are in short supply. I would like to see statistics comparing the frequency of demands for Ritalin by lazy parents, versus its recommendation by lazy Medics. (I read that parents often demand that treatment with Ritalin be reinstated, but as a doctor first prescribed it, and it worked, their request is quite reasonable when the disorder returns on withdrawal.)
Bob Emmett @ Ynys Thanatos