Sugar is a simple carbohydrate found naturally in many foods, including fruits and grains. If the only sugar we consumed were in natural, whole foods, we’d all be just fine. But the average American diet is full of refined, nutrient-depleted foods...
Even the UK government has discovered what we all have known for the longest time - that food additives can make our children hyperactive.
OUR KIDS COULD BE NEXT: A push for Ritalin is coming our way
Work by scientists such as Dr Neil Ward, of the Chemistry Department, University of Surrey and advisor to HACSG, has emphasised the importance of zinc status, ingestion of additives and heavy meta ...
ADDITIVES: more evidence to be ignored
Around five million children in the USA are taking some prescribed stimulant to treat their hyperactivity. The manufacturers are now turning to Europe in general, and the UK in particular,
ADHD, PART I: Thank goodness, another new drug for our kids
The growing ‘grey’ population may be raking in the cash for drug companies, but look at the other end of the age spectrum and you’ll also see burgeoning trade. The number of children diagnosed with mental disorders, including attention...
ADHD, PART II: OK, it's time for some joined-up thinking
Q:I have an 11-year-old son whose behaviour has always been extreme and who has been labelled "hyperactive". I have always had a suspicion that this hyperactivity may be connected to the fact that ...
Carolyn Dean
What Doctors Don't Tell You