A. D. H. D. - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder : A Natural Approach to Help and Heal a Hyperactive Child Book

	Introduction: Reaping a Bitter Harvest	xv
	Have You Taken Your Psychotropic Drug, Dear?	xvi
	Made in America	xvii
	Fit for School, Unfit for the Military	xviii
	Free Love, Assassinations, Protest Marches and Dr. Spock	xix
	Still Reaping a Bitter Harvest	xx
	Well Educated, Inexperienced and Unemployable	xxii
	Neck Deep and Hiding the Evidence	xxiii
	Embracing Legal and Illegal Drugs	xxiii
1	Filtering the Hype From "Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder"	1
	No Proof of Disease	2
	You Won't Believe This	3
	Describe Your Kids Using This List	4
	According to the "Best Minds," Yours May Be Defective	4
	It's Official: Normal Childhood Behavior Is a Disease Requiring Drug Treatment	6
	Doesn't Ritalin Help ADD Kids?	6
	Viva La Difference!	7
	ADHD Kids: Stand-Up Leaders in a Sit-Down Classroom Culture?	8
	Paying the Price for Parental Indulgences?	10
2	What to Do First: Educate Yourself	11
	It's a Matter of Priorities: Who Cares the Most About Your Children?	12
	Would You Trust a Ten-Minute Diagnosis?	13
	Drugging "Hyperactive" Children on the Strength of an "Educated Guess"	15
	He Told Her Not to Read So Much	16
	All the Signs of Serious Drug Withdrawal	17
	A Chilling Reminder	18
	Find a Competent Healthcare Provider	20
	Consider All the Evidence	21
	Discuss the Facts, Dismiss the Myths	22
3	Ritalin--Educating the Medicated: Why Do We Drug Our Kids?	23
	The Business of Putting Profit Ahead of Child Safety	24
	NIMH: No Proof That Drugs Help Kids in the Long Run	25
	Growing Dissatisfaction	26
	Counting the Cost	27
	There's a Price to Pay	28
	Ritalin Use May Have Affected Brain Scans	29
	Abnormalities Caused By Medication?	29
	These Aren't Improvements--They Are Toxic Side Effects!	30
	Will Your Child Join the Six to Seven Million Kids Already Tagged With a Psychiatric Disorder?	31
	"Expansion"	33
	Made in America!	34
	What Harm Will Come?	35
	Good News for Investors: Mood Stabilizer Prescriptions for Minors Up 4,000 Percent!	35
	Psychiatric Guinea Pigs?	37
	The Only Solution?	38
4	Do Treatments Pass or Fail?	39
	Still Groping After All These Years	40
	If in Doubt, Vote	41
	The Strange Journey	42
	Forced Sterilization in the 1900s	47
	The Intent--Suppression of Behavior	48
	Dubious Drug "Testing" at Best	49
	Were the School Shooters on a Prescribed High?	50
	Restoring Sanity With Sane Methods	51
5	The High/Low Jackpot: Sugar Levels and Learning Levels	53
	The American Trend That Launched an Epidemic	54
	Most ADHD Children Dramatically Helped by Dietary Changes	55
	Kids React to Sugar Ten Times More Than Adults	57
	Why Do Most Doctors Dismiss the Sugar Factor?	58
	Your Jekyll and Hyde May Have Hypoglycemia	59
	The Body Regulates Sugar Levels With Hormones	60
	Unchecked Hypoglycemia and Diabetes	61
6	Your Child in a "Dumbed-Down" World	63
	"Learning to Read Early...Is a Perversion"	65
	Opposition to Judeo-Christian Principles	66
	Teaching Reading Today	67
	Plummeting Reading Scores--It's No Accident	68
	Groundbreaking New Research	71
	Perception vs. Effective Education?	71
	Is the System the Culprit?	72
	Correct the Damage?	73
	They Could Read Anything!	74
	The Highest Literacy in History	75
	Graduating With a Diploma They Can't Read	76
	Teach Children the "Code" Early	77
	The Role of Diet	78
	"I Prefer the Hyperactive Student"	79
	Illiteracy and Delinquency	80
	The Homeschooling Alternative	81
	Forced to Produce Results	81
	Can Anyone Learn to Read?	82
7	Autism--the New Wave	85
	Autism--#1 Disability in California	86
	A 556 Percent Increase!	87
	Why the Increase?	88
	What Causes Autism?	90
	Supplementation Strategies	92
	Two Stories of Hope	92
	Facing a Tide of Negativity	95
	Movies Raised Public Awareness of Autism	96
	Attack the Problem on Several Fronts	97
	"Bowling" With Autistic Literary Genius	99
8	America's Love Affair With Mass Immunizations	101
	Mixed Signals?	102
	They Want to Know Why	103
	Obscene Seizure and the Custody of Strangers	104
	Childhood Diseases Dropped 95 Percent Before Immunizations!	106
	Measles (Rubeola or "English Measles")	107
	It doesn't seem to work	108
	If the vaccination does offer protection to a portion of the population, those who do get vaccinated evidently have only limited benefit	108
	Recent research repeatedly points to the measles component of the MMR vaccine is a possible source of the exploding autism epidemic sweeping through the nation	108
	Mumps	109
	Rubella (German Measles)	110
	Diphtheria	111
	Whooping Cough (Pertussis)	112
	Tetanus	115
	Hepatitis B	116
	Poliomyelitis (Polio)	117
	Monkey Virus Contamination	117
	Dealing With the Fallout	118
	I'll Take My Chances!	120
	CDC Pin Cushions	121
9	Heavy Metals and Toxic Injections	123
	Forty-one Times the "Safe" Adult Level of Mercury!	125
	Weighed in the Balance?	126
	Potentially Deadly Mercury Exposure	127
	Parental David vs. Governmental Goliath	128
	Why Worry About a Little Carcinogen?	129
	What Is a Little Fibrosarcoma Between Friends?	130
	Enter the Ostrich and the Official Box of Sand	132
	It Only Takes One Molecule	133
	Choosing the Best Method of Mercury Detoxification	135
	Follow Up With Vitamins	135
10	Reversing the Dietary Devastation of the Television Generation	139
	Our Own Shaky Footsteps	140
	If It's Junk... We Are Interested!	141
	No Surprise	142
	Good Sources of Protein Low in Fat and High in Value	144
	Meet Robbie--Nearly Expelled From Kindergarten!	149
	Even Scientific Researchers Exhibit Personal Bias at Times	151
	Living With Your Very Own "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"?	152
	Eliminate Problem Foods, Invest in Power Foods	153
	Using an Elimination Diet	154
	What Is a Responsible Parent to Do?	155
	"Vitamin" Products That May Make Things Worse!	156
	Recommended Eating Program	157
11	Keys to Proper Parental Control: Consistency, Caring and Compassion	161
	The Three-Part Foundation of Proper Parental Discipline	163
	"Can I Give Him Back?"	163
	"Is This the Customer Service Counter?"	164
	Consistency	165
	"Now I'm Really Going to Spank You"	166
	Children Won't Die If You Spank Them	167
	Children Respect Strength	168
	Caring and Compassion	169
	Special-Needs Children Need Appropriate Discipline	170
	Harnessing the Strength of the Will	171
	Don't Try to Change Your Child's Basic Temperament	172
	Trapped in a Toilet by a Two-Year-Old!	173
	Now What Am I Going to Do?	174
	Reinforce the Good, Discourage the Bad	175
	Proper Correction Increases Focus and Attention	176
	Respect Doesn't Come by Accident	177
	Mom: "Thank You; Please Spank Him More"	178
	Deliver Ten Times More Love Than Discipline	179
	Make Intentional Changes for Intentional Results	180
	It Only Takes One "Mover and Shaker"	181
12	Survival Strategies for Caring Parents	183
	Winning That "Extra Measure of Care"	185
	Strategic Tips for the Preconception Phase	185
	Strategic Tips for the Prenatal Phase	187
	A Cheap Price Guarantees Cheap Nutrition	188
	After Your Child Is Born	189
	Invest the Time to Smell the Roses	190
	You Need a Strategy!	191
	Preschool and Elementary School Phase	192
	Timely Intervention	193
	What Do You Have to Lose?	194
	Prepared for Life	196
	We Could Help Because We Were Prepared	197
	Teach Them to Keep Their Word	198
	Dishonesty Affects Families, Businesses and Nations	199
	You Are Not Helpless, and You Are Not Alone	200
	Notes	203