ADD/ADHD, Preservatives, and Money: A Dangerous Trio

[Guest guest]

I was born in 1950, and when I was going to school there was no such thing as

ADD/ADHD. I never even heard the term “hyperactive.” The closest we came was

to call someone squirrelly.

But now there are “official” reports that claim that 3%-5% of the U.S.

population has ADD/ADHD, and up to 7,000,000 children (the numbers vary in the

reports) have been diagnosed.

What is going on?

I find it almost impossible to believe that human brain chemistry has changed

so radically in fifty years. Instead, our environment must have caused this

change, and I see two direct links. The first one is the gargantuan profits

that pharmaceutical companies are making from their ADD/ADHD drugs. And the

second is the enormous change in the quality of our food.

Since the Vioxx scandal has already taught us how ruthless the pharmaceuticals

can be in pursuit of their profits, I’m going to talk about our food supply

instead. When I was growing up, the only food I knew of that had preservatives

was bacon. But now when I go to the grocery store, I can’t find a mayonnaise

without them. Most breads, including those baked by the store, have chemicals,

and even the raw chicken has sodium phosphates.

There were also few fast-food restaurants when I was a child, while now many

children eat several meals a week in them. I remember the time I checked out

the ingredients in a plain hamburger, and I found that the bun had more

chemicals in it than food! And regular restaurants aren’t much better, since

they buy their food from the same manufacturers who make the food in our grocery

stores.

In 1974, Dr. Feingold, an allergist and pediatrician, published Why

Your Child is Hyperactive and discussed the connection between chemicals in food

and hyperactivity (now called ADD/ADHD). And since this research has been

available for over thirty years, we have to wonder why food manufacturers are

continuing to pour chemicals into our food.

The answer, of course, is money. They think preservatives will increase their

profits. And they’re not the only beneficiaries. The drug companies are

selling billions of dollars of drugs a year. Doctors make money from seeing

children and prescribing medications, labs make money from blood tests,

therapists make money from individual and family counseling, and some schools

make money from having more “disabled” students.

So if your child has been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD and is either taking drugs

or being pressured to start, I urge you to do your own research.

There could be another way.

How to Successfully Manage ADD/ADHD Without Drugs

http://ADHD-Help-No-Drugs.MustSee.info

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