Health: ADHD, Drugs and Food Allergies
November 9, 2007
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Nutrition and Healing Editor - Amanda Ross in her latest article has some interesting discussion regarding ADHD, the dangerous drugs that are often prescribed and possible natural (read: normal) solutions for a child diagnosed with ADHD.
Dear Reader,
Prescription drug side effects are bad enough when they’re associated with medications adults need (few and far between as those are). But when they accompany drugs for a condition that occurs primarily in children, it’s downright negligent.
I’m talking about drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In September, the FDA and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality announced that they will be conducting a large-scale study on these medications in response to numerous case reports of children and adults who had been taking ADHD drugs suffering from cardiovascular events like heart attack and stroke.
This announcement is disturbing on multiple levels.
First of all, rather than immediately halting sales of these drugs, which they already know are unsafe, the FDA has decided to launch a study to determine just how unsafe they really are. They say their research will take two years to complete. A lot of heart attacks and strokes can happen in two years…but that doesn’t seem to bother them.
But what I find particularly maddening about this research is that ADHD drugs are completely unnecessary in the first place. Which means all that additional risk doctors and drug companies are putting on children is also completely unnecessary.
In over 30 years of practice, Dr. Wright has found that every single child he has worked with who has been diagnosed with ADHD has significant food allergies (sometimes even to healthy foods, although dairy products tend to be some of the primary culprits). He has also found that all ADHD children he has worked with are sensitive to some of the molecules naturally present in their own bodies, particularly neurotransmitters and hormones.
Both of these factors involve thorough screening and subsequent desensitization to the offending substances. So you do need the help of a physician skilled in nutritional and natural medicine to eliminate the problem. But what you don’t need are ADHD drugs — or the risks associated with them.
To locate a physician in your area who can help you with allergy and neurotransmitter sensitivity screening and treatment for these problems, contact the American College for Advancement in Medicine (800-532-3688, www.acam.org) or the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (316-684-5500, www.aaem.com).
The additional discussion below pertains to a question a reader asks Amanda Ross about the governments interference in the food industry and it’s attempt to regulate when we eat and how it is cooked, specifically, trans-fats.
The choice is yours
Q: What is your opinion on restaurants being required to stop using trans-fats in their menu items?
JVW: While I oppose unnecessary legislation in all cases, selective legislation like this just isn’t good for anyone. It boils down to a government attempt to force you into making what they consider healthy food choices. Unfortunately, in all too many cases, their ideas of healthy foods — think lots of carbohydrates and dairy products — are skewed, to say the least.
Plus, this feeble attempt at “helping” consumers make healthier choices just seems too little too late. Once you’re standing in line at McDonald’s, are you really weighing the healthfulness of the different options? Let’s get real: This is just a thinly veiled precursor to los Federales going that extra step and outlawing junk food altogether. It’s just one more way the government has found to make us a little less “free,” and I can’t, in good conscience, get on board with it.
Of course, I want you to eat healthy too — but I certainly don’t want to force you to do it. I believe that we should all have the freedom to make our own decisions on how to stay healthy — from using supplements right down to what entrée you order when you eat out. And forcing restaurants to undergo the time and expense to recreate all their menus and recipes violates the Constitutional relationship our government is supposed to have with businesses in this country.
Without true political freedom — the kind originally established back in 1776, meant to keep the forcible hand of “government” out of our daily lives — not only the best of health, but the best of anything simply isn’t possible.
Yours in good health,
Amanda Ross
Editor
Nutrition & Healing
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I hope you can help me out. I am trying to get my health under control so starting to eat right is my first step. Do you know where I can purchase quality food online? (that is on the healthy side) I am starting to do all of my shopping online because of various reasons…so I am hoping you can help me out with a suggestion or two.
So far I have only tried Celebrity foods (which is outstanding by the way)
I am in desperate need to grow my list of quality services or stores, where I can buy my food from. Thank you and have a great day or night (depending on when you read this. LOL!
Leo - first thing I would do is search in Google, Yahoo or one of the other search engines, entering a search term such as: online health foods, or interchange words like groceries - then add the area you’re from so the the search looks like this: “online health foods, Fairfax,VA.” I’ve seen ads on Amazon.com which has a pretty good delivery policy and they do have some pretty good sales. Call your local health food store for ideas and call the manager of your local supermarket to learn if they deliver. Many supermarkets carry lines of good, nutritional foods at reasonable cost - just be careful of what’s on the label.
I hope this helps.