The Free Lance

The French holistic, psycho-social approach also allows for considering nutritional causes for ADHD-type symptoms—specifically the fact that the behavior of some children is worsened after eating foods with artificial colors, certain preservatives, and/or allergens. Clinicians who work with troubled children in this country—not to mention parents of many ADHD kids—are well aware that dietary interventions can sometimes help a child’s problem. In the United States, the strict focus on pharmaceutical treatment of ADHD, however, encourages clinicians to ignore the influence of dietary factors on children’s behavior.

Marilyn Wedge, Ph.D.

Under 15? No Caffeine for You.

Let’s be clear, unless you were issued a passport as a child, almost no one in America can prove their DOB with a government-issued picture ID before the age of 15. Ipso facto, when the FDA muses on limiting childhood “access” to caffeine that means age-restrictions are part of the mix, and age-restrictions can only be enforced at 15 and up.

Nearly one in five high school age boys in the United States and 11 percent of school-age children over all have received a medical diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to new data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

This is child abuse, plain and simple. Big Medicine and Big Education have failed, so they define those they have failed as sick.