Cure For ADD

The quality of food we eat (or lack thereof) has a profound affect on Attention Deficit Disorder and ADHD. For many people, nutrition alone can effectively work as an ADHD alternative treatment.

Before the 1990s, 1 in 10,000 children were diagnosed with autism. But in the past decade, as the government has increased the number of mandatory vaccines, some recent studies suggest the rate of autism has risen to 1 in about 250 children.

The expanded utilization of antidepressants for the management of behavioral and emotional disorders of youth in the 1990s was prominent. More research is needed to strengthen the evidence that the medications are appropriate for children and teens.

Attention Deficit with Hyperactivity Disorder is not a pigeonhole; it's a sea. And too often every child who doesn't behave in what some consider an appropriate manner is put into this sea.

At a time when Americans are searching for causes of aggression and violence among children, it would make sense to consider malnutrition, food additives, tobacco additives, toxic metals, pesticides and other endocrine-disrupting industrial toxicants --all of which many U.S. children are exposed to from the moment of conception onward.

Many, perhaps most, of the "difficult" pupils in schools today are not "bad" but nutritionally impaired. School lunch programs attempt to provide calories and a full belly, and they are clearly better than nothing. It would be much better to approve and fund only menu items free of artificial colors, flavours, preservatives and added sugar. The addition of a good multiple vitamin and extra Vitamin C to each meal would do even more. Over and over again, large research studies confirm that American kids are NOT getting even the modest US RDA of many vitamins and minerals. This has to effect their school performance. What would be surprising would be if it did not.