NevaforLeadership's Comments (733)

“I will add kids brain washing by advertisement during kids shows. Unfortunately that brain washing d not apply only to kids.”

“Unless of course what they are teaching is wrong because the nutritional models developed for home ec and so on were sponsored by the dairy board, grain board, beef board, etc.”

“I would add salt to the sugar and fat cocktail food manufacturers mix up and market to children. Parents can only do so much and when kids get older, they will tend to follow peers more than parents, so we need better regulation of the industries involved--food and advertising.

Personally, I don't eat "manufactured" food nor did I feed it to my kids. We ate real food, made from fresh, whole ingredients, cooked by me. Nobody was fat and everybody was healthy. Today, however, they eat all manner of junk and feed their own kids the same. The power of marketing is enormous.”

“Actually, all carbohydrates metabolize as sugar, so eliminate all carbs except non-starchy green vegetables. It's worked for me for 10 years.”

“Nonsense.”

“http://www.feingold.org/pg-study.html”

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What I assume from your comment is that you believe "just saying no" is an effective prevention measure to use in stopping HIV transmission.

First, you fail to consider human nature, especially for young people. Deprivation is often a key motivator in going towards the behavior that is being deprived.

Second, you obviously don't know the reality of what you proposed. While true prevention has proven over and over again to at least help on some level, abstinence has proven the opposite. There are plenty of teenagers getting pregnant all of the time who are taught to "just say no." as a result, they themselves have been a voice against abstinence only education.

I encourage you to become informed before making irresponsible suggestions.

Take care
Jason”

“What I assume from your comment is that you believe "just saying no" is an effective prevention measure to use in stopping HIV transmission.

First, you fail to consider human nature, especially for young people. Deprivation is often a key motivator in going towards the behavior that is being deprived.

Second, you obviously don't know the reality of what you proposed. While true prevention has proven over and over again to at least help on some level, abstinence has proven the opposite. There are plenty of teenagers getting present all of the time who are taught to "just say no." as a result, they themselves have been a voice against abstinence only education.

I encourage you to become informed before making irresponsible suggestions.

Take care
Jason”

“I reached the word limit. Basically, I wanted to add that the psychiatrists I have seen say there is no reason to want to go off the medications, the alternatives I look into, they are not at all familiar with and they have no intellectual curiosity about them, and they will even suggest increasing my levels of medication, even though I am stable right now. The main problems I have right now are from the medications themselves. Sorry to take up a double post.”

“Thanks. It sounds like you know me rather well. I've seen so many psychiatrists and have done so much research on my own for alternative treatments to help me withdraw from the drugs, alternatives like l theanine, inositol, taking lyrica or gabapentin or a cross taper over to valium (longer acting so easier to withdraw from).

But I live in an area of the country where every psychiatrist I have seen is a foreign medical school graduate, and I don't mean to sound xenophobic, but I can only guess that because it's a poorer part of the country, they are reimbursed by insurance less, and the less qualified psychiatrists are the ones who end up working here. I'm lucky if I can find one who spends a few minutes talking to me and I can understand them. I mean this sincerely: they do not have a grasp of the drugs I take as well as I do. They aren't aware of the basic dangers of these drugs, like me going off benzodiazepines suddenly would result in seizures. There's a disconnect between them and the reality of these drugs so large that it is like a twilight zone to me. I cannot understand how this is their specialty when it seems to be what they are so inept at in particular.

I'm afraid to try supplements on my own without a doctor who knows how to help me get off the drugs using supplements. But I have not found that doctor.”

“I think the point of the article is that some, but a few small number of children DO really need and benefit from these strong drugs. If a parent sees that thair child is possibly in this small number, yes of course, adjust their diet, supplement w/omegas-3 & 6, look into allergens and pollutants in their environment, etc... but get on the internet & do your own resreach, find a shrink you can trust and get the child help, get them on the drugs in a controlled and moderated manner. They are potentially harmful and should be used only when all else fails.

The problem is the quick-fix mentality of passing out these very strong drugs to young developing brains without doing that arduous base work first.

& I agree with you, the quick fix approach has ended up in GP's & others, untrained in child psychiatristy passing them out to a multitude of kids who really don't need them. ADD & ADHD has become an umbrella label for almost any behavioural or learning problem.”

“Poor discipline is NOT the cause of mental disorders and poor behavior in children. The cause is poor nutrition (inadequate omega 3, for example), and exposure to antinutrients (food colorants, preservatives etc).

The food/pharmaceutical companies are big making money from this. They cause the problem with their nutrient poor and additive-contaminated foods, and then they make money from treatment by selling dangerous drugs to "fix" it. I wonder if they are aware of the connection.

Vaccines also may play a role in causing mental disorders in children. Vaccines cause brain damage. Oh boy, I know I am going to get a lot of flack for that one. But I think its true and can provide some suggestive research.”

“Denial isn't going to change the fact that there are children who need help.

Just because you weren't aware of people in school that were ADD/ADHD doesn't mean they didn't exist. Why should they tell you about their problems? Or did you have access to the student's personal records? Where's the proof of your assertions?”

“Mammograms detect cancer, they do NOT cause cancer!”

“There's really nothing to debate. Science is science and "Intelligent Design" is nonsense. The fact that this isn't obvious to everyone speaks to some obvious limitations in how children are being educated. Wherever they learn it, I'd really like to ensure that every child is clear about the value of science and the difference between science and non-science.”