Jack Challem
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 While depression is a common problem that can be addressed through safe alternative therapies, people suffer from many other mood and behavioral problems that make life difficult for them and the people in their lives. In The Food-Mood Solution, I tackle a variety of these more common mood problems, including
• Anger and hostile behavior
• Tension and anxiety
• Irritability and impatience
• Impulsive and distractible habits
• Fatigue and fuzzy thinking
• Stress and sleep problems
• Alcohol and drug abuse
This book is different from all the other food-mood books in another important way. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Roberts says the isolated phenylalanine lowers the seizure threshold and triggers psychiatric and behavioral problems, as well as other symptoms and diseases. Neuroscientist John Olney, who founded the field of neuroscience called excitotoxicity, says that aspartic acid is an excitotoxin that stimulates neurons into hyperactivity until they exhaust and die.
Psychiatrist Ralph G. Walton, medical director of Safe Harbor Behavioral Health, had to abruptly stop his own human clinical trial on aspartame when some of the subjects had serious reactions. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Why Walnuts Make a Great Snack for Kids
Several studies have demonstrated greater attention, reduction in behavioral problems, and less "ADD-like" behaviors in schoolkids when they're given omega-3s. Since it's hard to get kids to eat fish, let alone carry it to school in their lunchbox, walnuts are a really smart idea for a kid snack.
And walnuts may also be a great tool for weight management. According to experts at Loma Linda University, eating a few walnuts (say four to six halves) before meals decreases levels of hunger and may cause people to eat less at meals. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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 Does the person exhibit the behavioral problems in a variety of environments?
3. Does the person demonstrate the behaviors considerably more frequently than do most people of the mental age?
4. Has the person demonstrated the behaviors for at least 6 months?
5. Did the person first demonstrate the behaviors before age 7?
6. Is the person's functioning (at school, home, and work) significantly impaired?
7. Are there other conditions that could possibly be causing the behavioral problems? If yes, what are the conditions?
8. Who has previously evaluated this person and what were the results? |
| In this kind of climate, viewing the behavioral problems of a child as being the result of defects within his own brain was a rare thing, which is why relatively few children were diagnosed with minimal brain dysfunction, or given behavior-modifying drugs. Things began to change late in the 60s, with a major shift obvious by the beginning of the 80s. Increasingly, psychiatry became a discipline where behavioral problems were seen as having biological rather than environmental roots, even though no proofs were ever produced for this shift in thinking. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 The same is true of behavioral problems. A study of 1,782 eight-year-old children in Boston found that lead levels correlated with elevated scores on tests measuring anxiety and/or withdrawal, and scores measuring inattentiveness, nervousness, and aggressive behavior.174 There was also some correlation to extreme behavior problems. In another study, children with high blood lead levels were three times more likely to have significant behavioral problems than children with lower lead levels. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Cigarette smoking and obesity are generally conceptualized as a personal behavioral problems. In a limited sense, this is obviously true. Changing personal behavior can and does benefit one's health. Such change should be encouraged in myriad ways. Yet some ctitics have gone further, suggesting that personal responsibility for health should be imposed by outside authority. Such imposition might be promulgated by employers refusing to hire smokers or drinkers, or by health care providers refusing to insure such people.25 We understand the impulse. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 In addition, being left-handed has been linked to some behavioral problems. Some of these problems, however, may be partly the result of parents or teachers trying to force lefties into being righties, a practice that is still widespread in some parts of the world.
A recent Dutch study found preliminary evidence that left-handed women were at increased risk for developing premenopausal breast cancer. But the news isn't all bad for southpaws. Lefties appear
Among famous southpaws are Leonardo da Vinci, President George H. W. Bush, President Bill Clinton, and Oprah Winfrey. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 One study of all the studies of antipsychotics for the treatment of behavioral problems in demented patients found data on 3,353 patients randomized to an antipsychotic and 1,757 randomized to placebo that revealed a 1.2% absolute increase in the death of those patients on antipsychotics. The authors concluded that treatment of demented patients with antipsychotics may be associated with an increased risk of death. |
Jack Challem
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| Conversely, what works for people with serious mood or behavioral problems, such as violent criminal behavior, will often improve less destructive mood problems. Again, the issue is one of dosage. A general rule of thumb is that milder mood and behavior problems usually respond to smaller amounts of supplements. Although vitamins and related supplements are extraordinarily safe, it makes little sense to take higher doses and to spend more money than you need to. |
| It has also been used to treat behavioral problems in autistic children. Take 125 mg two to three times daily. If DMG causes hyperactive behavior, adding 800 mg of folic acid (a B vitamin) with each DMG supplement may lessen this side effect.
Glycine. This amino acid (protein building block) has the simplest chemical structure of any amino acid—and it may have some of the most diverse roles. It is a relaxing neurotransmitter that has antiinflammatory and cell-protective properties. It also blunts the postmeal increase in blood sugar levels, thereby lowering the risk of diabetes. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| I'm pretty convinced that a lot of the behavioral problems we see in kids would be modulated noticeably if we didn't stuff them with sugar water all day long.
70 C
Unfortunately, the Environmental Working Group, a consumer advocate and protection nonprofit research organization, put apples on its 2003 list of twelve foods most contaminated with pesticides. The organization suggests you buy organic. I agree.
Apricots
An apricot is basically a tasty little low-calorie bundle of nutrients put together in a beautiful, sun-colored package. What's not to like? |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Nancy Appleton, author of Lick the Sugar Habit, found considerable research linking multiple behavioral problems to sweets, including hyperactivity, anxiety, crankiness, and concentration problems.
Like other experts, Dr. Appleton expresses strong reservations about the methodology used by studies seeking to disprove the sugar-makes-kids-hyperactive theory. For example, she notes that in one study children were given small amounts of sugar throughout the day, including the equivalent of half a can of soda.
"Nobody ever drinks just part of a can of soda. |
Melody Petersen
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 The firm proposed articles that would describe how Neurontin could allegedly treat bipolar disorder, migraines, chronic pain, and behavioral problems. The actual evidence supporting such treatment was limited to nonexistent at that time, although this did not seem to present a problem for the staff at Medical Education Systems, which worked out of offices in Philadelphia.
The marketing firm planned to recruit physicians and pay them a thousand dollars each to be the "authors" of the twelve articles. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Medications are often used to address severe behavioral problems, anxiety, depression, inattention, or hyperactivity. With the exception of Risperdal—which was approved by the FDA in 2006 specifically to treat aggression, deliberate self-injury, and temper tantrums in children with autism—the medications are prescribed "off label."
Dr. Sidney Baker, a physician and researcher at the Autism Research Institute, offers insight into the nature of autism and the limits of our understanding of it. |
Andreas Moritz
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 A controlled study revealed that 65 percent of all children whose birth had been controlled electronically were at risk for developing growth and behavioral problems later in their lives.
The very setup of a delivery room in the hospital, which looks much like an operation theater, can induce a fear and stress response in a sensitive mother. The sudden release of anxiety-provoking stress hormones by the mother may also affect the fetus and make him fearful. The mother's worries become his worries, and her fears become his. |
Dawson Church
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 Rossi notes that they correspond with a need for relaxation after periods of intense creative work,19 and recommends an ultradian rest period in the afternoon, if that is when behavioral problems recur.20 By this late in the day, he believes that many people, after ignoring the peaks and valleys of their ultradian cycle for many hours, have "an accumulated ultradian deficit and stress syndrome expressed with these common complaints:
'"I'm exhausted by mid-afternoon."
'"I get stressed, tense, and irritable toward the end of the workday"
'"I need a drink after work. |
Jack Challem
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| Many mood and behavioral problems are actually connected to each other. Sometimes the differences are only in degree, such as the progression from irritability to anger. I've organized some of the most common mood and behavioral issues into related groups.
• Anger disorders include irritability, crankiness, resentment, brooding, rudeness, aggressiveness, road rage, juvenile delinquency, and criminal violence. |
Jay Joseph
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 The researchers concluded that twin resemblance on environmental similarity measures was not "strongly or consistently" related to behavioral problems. In addition, they found that mothers' correct or incorrect assessment of their twins' zygosity did not significantly alter the results which, they concluded, "lend support for the validity of the EEA."6 A major problem with this study, however, is that the investigators relied on mothers' recollections in diagnosing the four behavioral problems (separation
1. Kendler & Gardner, 1998.
2. Klump et al., p. 51.
3. Ibid., p. 51.
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Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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| There are more hyperactivity and attention deficit problems, more learning disorders and more behavioral problems."
On the other hand, many experts, especially over the past decade, are challenging the idea that this is a real mental disorder and objecting to the way children are being stigmatized by it. Some call ADHD a myth or a "wastebasket diagnosis" for everything else the doctors can't find another name for. |
| It points out that behavioral problems are one of the earliest signs of chemical toxicity, which is what we are seeing in children today. In fact, researchers in the field of chemical toxicity are extremely concerned about the impact of environmental chemicals on children."
Aggression
Patient Story: Aggression_
Just after Brittany was born, when she was about three weeks old, she started having recurring ear infections. She was always going on antibiotics—literally every two weeks—until she was about two years old. |
| Buttram says, "I think there are very good reasons for tying in environmental chemicals with the epidemic we're having of behavioral problems such as attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity. The massive increase of environmental chemicals to which these children are exposed is connected to their symptoms."
There are other factors as well. "A combination of subtle brain damage from environmental chemicals, nutritional deficiencies, a crippling of the detoxification systems of the body, food allergies, and an overgrowth of Candida in the system will produce a very sick child," Dr. |
| The hyperactivity, attention deficit, and behavioral problems, in my opinion, are all actually a continued spectrum of the same thing."
Dr. Buttram identifies several specific groups of environmental chemicals. "Group one consists of toxic heavy metals, of which lead, of course, is the best known. This category would also include mercury, cadmium, aluminum and others. Our concern here is more with the other category, the volatile organic compounds, which are made up of carbon molecules. |
| My skin is clear, and the behavioral problems and anxieties which held me back ceased.
I use supplements, an air filter, antioxidants, and Vitamin C. I recently began walking as exercise to lose weight, a current problem.
BOB
I was a heroin addict and methadone user until 2001.1 was depressed, physically weak with elevated blood pressure and glaucoma. My hair was thinning. It was time for a change. I did not attend a support group but booked a consultation with Luanne Pennessi at Metropolitan Wellness Center and began a series of drips under the care of a naturopathic physician. |
Andreas Moritz
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| During a medical conference, doctors reported observing children between the ages one and two regressing, losing their speech, and developing signs of withdrawal and behavioral problems after being administered antibiotics. Children who have taken antibiotics often show signs of restlessness, anxiety, boredom, irritability, and outbursts of anger. Antibiotics may therefore indirectly contribute to substance abuse, whether the substance is tobacco, coffee, alcohol or non-prescribed drugs.
Nature Knows Best—Clearing Infection Naturally
Nature has a cure for every ill. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Children who are exposed to lead are more likely to have lower intelligence quotients and to develop learning disabilities and behavioral problems than normal children. If women are exposed to lead during pregnancy, especially if they are calcium-deficient, their children may have abnormal neurological development. Lead exposure in adults can increase the risk of kidney damage and high blood pressure.
Lead can also be incorporated into bones. This lead can remain in the bones for decades. |
Melody Petersen
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| Today most children visiting the clinics, he said, are being treated for mental, emotional, or behavioral problems.
Ritalin, or a similar drug like Adderall or Concerta, is often the first medicine these children are prescribed. The fast growth in the use of these drugs began in the early 1990s, as the pharmaceutical companies increased their promotion and after federal lawmakers made attention deficit disorder a protected disability under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. |
Mike Adams
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 Finally, Congress has passed legislation that bans schools from forcing parents to drug their children for behavioral problems.
Now, you may think that this wasn't a problem, and you may have never even heard about it. But in fact, it was a huge problem. There have been many cases in which children were denied an education because their parents refused to put them on narcotic stimulants, antidepressants, and other drugs that we now know cause violent behavior and increased risk of suicide. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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| Recently, we have become aware that certain types of fats play a vital role in the formation of a baby's brain, and that when these fats are missing from the mother's diet, the baby may later suffer learning difficulties and behavioral problems. One of the most important of these fats is called docosahexaenoic acid or DHA. This fat plays an important role in the formation of the synaptic connections within the brain. These connections allow the various parts of the brain to communicate with each other and communicate with the body as well. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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 Compared with the placebo, the fatty-acid supplement produced significant improvements in both cognitive function and behavioral problems.21 No adverse effects were seen.
Iron (page 540) status, as measured by the serum ferritin concentration, was significantly lower in a group of children with ADHD than in healthy children. Ferritin levels were below normal in 84% of the children with ADHD, compared with 18% of the healthy children. |
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