| New research is appearing now that's showing | | | | several notable minerals, including magnesium |
| the link between the consumption of food | | | | and zinc. When the human body is deficient in |
| additives by children - especially food | | | | these vitamins and minerals, it will, of |
| colorings - and attention deficit | | | | course, exhibit both mental and physical |
| hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. | | | | disorders. The problem in all of this is that |
| Well-informed parents have long realized that | | | | rather than recognizing the true cause of |
| the consumption of food additives causes | | | | these mental and physical disorders in our |
| hyperactivity in their children, but most | | | | children and in our adult population, |
| conventional doctors have dismissed the idea | | | | conventional medicine labels it a disease. |
| as pure bunk. Of course, far too many doctors | | | | Therefore, the treatment becomes a drug |
| dismiss the idea that food choice has any | | | | rather than changing your diet, and that's |
| relationship to health in the first place, so | | | | where things get crazy, because now we're |
| the view from conventional medicine doesn't | | | | dosing up tens of millions of our children on |
| carry much weight. | | | | Ritalin when the true answer to their |
| | | | behavioral problems or lack of focus is to |
| The real story here, however, is not that | | | | immediately remove soft drinks, cookies, and |
| food additives and artificial colorings cause | | | | sugary breakfast cereals from their diets. If |
| ADHD, but that there are several other | | | | you feed your children foods that enhance |
| dietary substances that heavily influence a | | | | their health - that is, unprocessed foods |
| child's mental state and day-to-day behavior. | | | | like fruits, vegetables, whole grains and |
| | | | superfoods - then they won't exhibit these |
| Let's face it: the human brain is a flesh and | | | | behavioral problems. |
| blood organ, and it is strongly influenced by | | | | |
| blood chemistry, which is, in turn, dictated | | | | In fact, the solution to all this is |
| almost entirely by diet. What you eat, in | | | | surprisingly simple: we need to change the |
| other words, determines what your blood | | | | diets of our children. We need to take |
| composition looks like, and what your blood | | | | vending machines out of our public school |
| composition looks like determines the way | | | | systems. We need to reformulate school lunch |
| your brain functions. Of course there are | | | | programs so that they are feeding our |
| other factors, such as physical exercise and | | | | children foods that promote learning and |
| environmental influences, but the largest | | | | mental health. We also need to educate |
| factor of all is dietary. | | | | parents about how to feed their children |
| | | | right, so that they aren't so easily |
| So when you eat processed foods containing | | | | influenced by foods that their children want |
| additives and artificial colors, you are | | | | to eat. |
| introducing toxic chemicals into your | | | | |
| bloodstream. Those chemicals find their way | | | | And finally, we need to ban all advertising |
| into the brain and alter brain function, and | | | | and marketing of unhealthy products to |
| in the case of children who have been | | | | children. It should be illegal, in a |
| diagnosed with ADHD, it alters their behavior | | | | civilized society, for companies that |
| to make them restless or to have a shortened | | | | manufacture products that cause obesity and |
| attention span. It can also cause children | | | | ADHD to promote those products to children, |
| and adults alike to display other problems | | | | because it only creates a cycle of disease |
| derived from their mental state. (We'll | | | | and chronic illness that brings society down, |
| discuss the impact of nutritional deficiency | | | | and the long-term effect of all of this is, |
| on adult society next time.) | | | | of course, skyrocketing health care costs. |
| | | | |
| But it isn't just food additives causing | | | | Once again, the answer to all of this is |
| detrimental effects - it's also refined | | | | simply to change the foods and drinks that we |
| carbohydrates. People who eat large | | | | feed our nation's children. The answer is |
| quantities of white bread (or food containing | | | | certainly not to be dosing our children with |
| refined white flour) also suffer from mental | | | | powerful narcotics such as Ritalin, because |
| disorders. These can include depression, | | | | right now in this country we are raising a |
| aggression and violent behavior, and learning | | | | generation of brain-numbed children through |
| disabilities. Consuming refined carbohydrates | | | | our public school system and through the |
| also causes people to have brain fog - that | | | | reckless, widespread pharmaceutical |
| is, they can't concentrate for very long, and | | | | prescribing habits of many doctors and |
| they don't feel like they have clarity of | | | | psychiatrists. |
| mind. | | | | |
| | | | Mike Adams, "The Health Ranger," is chief |
| Drinking soft drinks also causes the same | | | | contributor and editor of the NewsTarget |
| effect, because it is essentially the same | | | | Network, a leading independent news source |
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| refined sugars. As it turns out, these | | | | other wellness topics. NewsTarget and are |
| refined sugars also cause behavioral | | | | leading information resources for consumers |
| disorders by depleting the body of nutrients | | | | seeking independent information on natural |
| that are critical for neurological health. | | | | health and nutrition. |
| These nutrients include the B vitamins and | | | | |