<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">You might want to check out the Nurtured Heart Approach and the books that are listed on the site <a href="http://www.difficultchild.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">www.difficultchild.com</a> Read the research page there and you will see massive reductions in problem behaviors as well as all but one student off of all drugs in one fairly large title one school within less than two years after the school wide implementation of the Nurtured Heart Approach. One of the books by Howard Glasser, the creator of Nurtured heart is called "101 reasons to avoid Ritalin like the Plague." Sandy Newmark, MD, the pediatrician who worked closely with Andrew Weil among others agrees with much of that book. <a href="http://www.doctornewmark.com/adhd.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">http://www.doctornewmark.com/adhd.html</a><div>
<br></div><div>Newmark has many recommendations. Unfortunately, despite lectures I have heard by him, he still holds out for Ritalin in some so called extraordinary cases supported by an integrative approach. He has not looked seriously at breathing issues that I work with in having helped a number of students from ages 8 up. Nor does he really look sufficiently into thyroid issues which I am certain many of these children have. Counter intuitively, I believe they are hypo not hyper thyroid and they are running on empty with adrenals teetering on the verge of exhaustion. Environmental physicians like Doris Rapp, MD, in her books describes so many chemical factors that contribute to serious hyperactivity and how to avoid then as well as developing antidotes for them. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Serious developments with nearly all of these can be avoided if the children, most of whom are serious mouth breathers and often have malacluded teeth as well due to mouth breathing--which you can learn about that at <a href="http://orthodonticearlytreatment.com/index.php?home" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">http://orthodonticearlytreatment.com/index.php?home</a> --- can be helped to retrain their breathing, keeping their mouths shut doing simple supervised appropriately increasing step exercises and proper reduced breathing for several weeks and so many of them calm down from little more than that and of course some modest and not radical restrictive improvements in their diet. Newmark claims that if you go on a very clean totally organic diet for 3 weeks, you will clear more than 95% of all the toxic chemicals you have stored in your body. The children who have asthma are on medications that produce hyperactivity. They are basically adrenalin type drugs. And then there are the steroids which must be given regularly to protect the children from the dangers of the adrenolin type meds like Albuterol or worse far worse killers like the long acting Beta Agonists in Advair or Symbicort. </div>
<div><br><div>In Scotland, whole schools were addressed with the Buteyko Approach and the changes were enormous in terms of the reduction of attentional deficits let alone asthma. see Glasgow school children video here: <a href="http://www.sleepingallnight.com/conference-videos.html#movie_start" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">http://www.sleepingallnight.com/conference-videos.html#movie_start</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.sleepingallnight.com/conference-videos.html#movie_start" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); "></a>Best of luck with all. Be well, Bud Weiss</div></div></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:16 PM, PATRICIA DESERT <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:honeybwomn@msn.com">honeybwomn@msn.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Would the person who sent the information on the diet that supports elimination of ADHD symptoms in children please send it again. I inadvertently deleted it. Thanks. Patti<br><br>Patti Desert, LCSW-C, CEMDR, CP Singular Pathways 208 East Melrose Avenue Baltimore, MD 21212 Phone: 410.435.3755 Fax: 410.435.0547 <a href="http://www.singular-pathways.com" target="_blank">www.singular-pathways.com</a> "from fears and tears to confidence and joy"<br>
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