It wasn't a dark and stormy night when DappleAndWasser said:Hyperactive kids: Give them fish oil every day and make
sure that they are eating otherwise healthy and balanced
meals and send them out to play. 99% will miraculously
be cured.
Great, so you know when you've done the non-processed whole
foods, play outside rain or shine thing that any attentional
difficulties aren't diet or nurture issues... that 99% is a
wild exaggeration and you know
it.
Quoted message said:The other 1% probably have problems at home and are
probably watching too much television.
Too much tv??? They've been outside since school and were
allowed to watch tv for 15 minutes and they still can't
sit still... of *course* they've got bloody problems when
they can't focus long enough to recall what they were
going to ask before they got distracted by a bird flying
past the window!
Quoted message said:It is incredible how mainstream people buy into the
worship of organized medicine.
You know that line of thinking might even work if everyone
with ADHD and all parents of kids with ADHD actually *were*
mainstream but I've yet to meet one who hasn't tried
alternative methods like I was subjected to in childhood on
top of all the exhaustive medical testing that took place.
And no, it's not something you "grow" out of either.
I'm one of the lucky ones who went through childhood
untreated in that I managed not to get into trouble with
drugs or the crime scene... would you have kids(and adults)
suffer needlessly from a treatable disorder?
I'm all for healthy living and careful use of medications
but you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater in your
ignorance. You might as well treat scabies with fish oil and
a few lung-fulls of fresh air for all the difference *that*
would make! :/
Vashti