E. Huff
Natural News
Wednesday, Dec 30th, 2009
Research from The National Institute of Mental Health
has revealed that popular Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) drugs like
Ritalin are responsible for causing sudden death in many children.
Study numbers indicate a 500 percent increased risk in childhood death
from taking such mental health drugs.
For years, many experts, scientists, and health practitioners have
speculated that ADD drugs are dangerous and can cause serious injury
and death. Etta Brown, a licensed educational psychologist and author
of Learning Disabilities: Understanding the Problem and Managing the
Challenges explained in response to the study that drugs like Ritalin
actually destroy the neural function in children’s brains. As a
result, children who have undergone treatment with Ritalin will
actually have a much more difficult time processing information and
learning new things.
Brown also notes that Ritalin is responsible for causing a permanent
tic in the face, neck, and head of many of the children who have taken
or are taking it. Ironically, Ritalin is responsible for causing far
more serious neurological damage than the problems it is alleged to
treat. Comprehensive studies over the years have revealed that while
drugs like Ritalin visibly calm children, these drugs destroy their
delicate, developing nervous systems and can permanently cripple their
ability to function as normal human beings.
Ritalin remains one of the primary drugs prescribed for children
with supposed behavioral problems. Rather than be encouraged to modify
diet and increase exercise, children are being given drugs by their
doctors instead. Increases in behavioral and learning problems among
children have been increasing right alongside escalating levels of
environmental toxins. Children are also spending more time at home
alone while their parents work, eating greater amounts of junk food,
and not getting adequate sleep.
Etta Brown, and others, suggest better nutrition, adequate sleep,
and increased exercise and physical activity as a proper treatment for
children with behavioral and learning disabilities. Nutrition alone is
of vital importance since inadequate nutrient intake is arguably the
most significant factor in children’s inability to behave and
learn. Proper brain function cannot be achieved if the brain is not
being fed what it needs to process information and grow.
Parental guidance in regulating and maintaining a proper lifestyle
for their children is also vital if true improvement is ever to be
achieved. Medical professionals, child psychologists, and others will
have to come to grips with the fact that drugs are not the answer to
childhood developmental problems.
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