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 Research conducted over the last several years by psychiatrists working for the National Institutes of Health initially found evidence of the drug stunting growth of children, yet nevertheless concluded that Ritalin carries "no long-term growth risk" to children. (Those researchers, by the way, failed to disclose their financial conflicts of interest with drug companies. |
| Treating children like guinea pigs
Nobody knows the long-term effects of Ritalin use on children. As a result, the psychiatric industry is treating children like guinea pigs, waiting to see what might happen after someone takes these amphetamines for a decade or longer. For all we know, Ritalin might stunt the size of the reproductive organs of these children, too, leading to future fertility problems. Perhaps the "Ritalin generation" won't be able to have babies. This is just a guess, but the important point here is that the psychiatric industry is guessing, too. Nobody knows. |
| If we continue to allow these profit-minded psych doctors to drug an entire generation with amphetamines, the long-term consequences to society will no doubt be devastating. Children do not need mind-altering drugs to demonstrate normal, balanced behavior. They simply need honest nutrition, responsible parenting and to be kept away from refined sugars, petrochemical food additives and processed foods.
Ritalin / Adderall addicts snort the meds like cocaine
Here's a Q&A from GoAskAlice (http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/3703. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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 Sibutramine (Meridia)
Sibutramine is one of the two drugs approved by the FDA for long-term use. It was originally studied as an antidepressant but performed very poorly. However, during the studies on depression, it was found to cause a mild amount of weight loss—between 2.2 and 4.4 pounds during the course of the studies. It works by a slightly different mechanism than the appetite suppressants like phentermine. It's called an SNRI because it is both a serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor. The norepinephrine is responsible for the appetite suppression. |
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 Any of these things will be greatly beneficial to the health of your child in the long-term.
Remember, one of the greatest gifts you can give to your children is getting them involved in sports programs or physical exercise programs. Just remember to keep it fun, keep it safe and set the best example yourself.
And what about academics? Obviously academics are important, but health must be the higher priority in my opinion. What good is a brain stuffed full of math and science facts if the heart can't pump oxygen to it? |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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| In addition, the AHA diet has never consistently shown long-term improvement in any heart disease outcome. The original low-fat advice was also predicated on the simplistic idea that blood cholesterol was the whole picture when it came to cardiac risk. We now know that there are a host of measures that are far better predictors of heart disease than total cholesterol. |
| Many people do drink soda addictively (I had one client who routinely consumed sixteen cans a day), and the amounts consumed by people like this have never been tested for safety in long-term studies. Through a classical conditioning mechanism, like the one used to teach Pavlov's dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell, drinking diet soda may well trigger insulin production (as may the consumption of other artificial sweeteners). And the chemicals, food colorings, flavorings, and other stuff in diet soda make it no picnic for the liver, either.
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| Now that you know that these drugs work only for as long as you take them, if you buy them off the Internet and self-medicate indefinitely by using stimulant pharmaceuticals that have never been tested for long-term use, you are essentially playing Russian roulette with your health.
Weight loss drugs fall into roughly two categories and work by different mechanisms. The first category is appetite suppressants. The second might be called "digestive inhibitors." All of the following except for Xenical, which is a digestive inhibitor, are appetite suppressants. |
| The studies on Phase 2 have not been published and were commissioned by the manufacturer of the starch blocker, so we need to wait and see about the long-term efficacy of this product. The plus side: it lets you do a low-carb diet and occasionally have some pasta or other high-carb dish. The negative side: the amount of starch you do absorb may still be too much for some very sugar-sensitive people, and the illusion that you can now eat these foods "safely" may be a really slippery slope for carb, sugar, and grain addicts. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 Tamoxifen is one of the most popular drugs taken to prevent breast cancer,39 40 but the long-term benefits of this option are not clear. One major U.S. study showed that tamoxifen administered over a period of four years to women at increased risk of breast cancer reduced the number of cases by an impressive 49%.41 This benefit, however, may be limited to women whose estrogen levels are very high. It was this result that led the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve use of tamoxifen by women who met certain criteria. |
| It is a long-term lifestyle change, rather than a quick-fix fad, and it can provide sustained weight loss while minimizing risk of chronic disease.
Have you ever known anyone who regularly consumes fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grain foods—and rarely, if ever, consumes meats or junk foods like chips, French fries and candy bars? What is his or her weight like? If you know many people like this, you have probably noticed that they tend to have a healthy weight. Now think of traditional cultures around the world. |
| Long-term studies indicate that only certain subsets of heart disease patients live longer because of their bypass operation.12 Furthermore, these studies demonstrate that those patients who undergo bypass operation do not have fewer heart attacks than those who do not have surgery.12
Remember which plaque buildups cause heart attacks? The deadly buildups are the smaller, less stable plaques that tend to rupture. The bypass operation, however, is targeted to the largest, most visible plaques, which may be responsible for chest pain, but not for heart attacks.
Angioplasty is a similar story. |
| A different review of low-carbohydrate diets published by researchers in Australia concludes, "Complications such as heart arrhythmias, cardiac contractile function impairment, sudden death, osteoporosis, kidney damage, increased cancer risk, impairment of physical activity and lipid abnormalities can all be linked to long-term restriction of carbohydrates in the diet."31 One teenage girl recently died suddenly after being on a high-protein diet. |
| But it's not the only way, and, as we shall see, it isn't necessarily the way most consistent with long-term health.
FEEDING THE CHILDREN
So this was the climate at that time, and I was a part of it as much as anyone else. I left MIT to take a faculty position at Virginia Tech in 1965. Professor Charlie Engel, who was then the head of the Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition at Virginia Tech, had considerable interest in developing an international nutrition program for malnourished children. He was interested in implementing a "mothercraft" self-help project in the Philippines. |
| Short-term gains should not come along with long-term pain, like kidney problems, heart disease, cancer, bone and joint ailments and other problems that may be brought on with popular diet fads. If the weight was gained slowly, over a period of months and years, why would you expect to take it off healthily in a matter of weeks? Treating weight loss as a race doesn't work; it only makes the dieter more eager to quit the diet and go back to the eating habits that put them in need of losing weight in the first place. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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| If you're willing to be patient and are looking at the long-term picture, you've probably come to the right place. If you need more immediate results, if you're concerned only with weight loss, if you can't deal with counting carbs, or if you don't feel you've damaged your metabolism all that much, this might not be the best place to start.
JONNY'S LOWDOWN * * * *
You simply cannot say enough good things about Diana Schwarzbein. She truly is a giant in the field and one of the most knowledgeable cutting-edge endocrinologists in the country. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Yet, from such limited testing, the FDA declares the drugs to be safe for everyone, even for long-term use, without a shred of evidence that such long-term use is safe.
No scientific testing whatsoever has been done to fully document the toxic effects of combinations of medications. Deadly drug interactions are simply noted after the fact. Consumers who take multiple prescription drugs are literally serving as Big Pharma's guinea pigs.
There is currently no requirement whatsoever that drug side effects noticed by doctors be reported to the FDA. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Studies have already proven that the chemicals made by these companies have long-term effects on children and adults. A short, two-year study like CHEERS would of course fail to reveal these long-term effects and the American Chemistry Council could then publicize these findings as "proof" that its chemicals were safe.
2006 - 2007
Merck begins pushing U.S. states to mandate the vaccination of teenage girls with Gardasil, a vaccine they claim prevents HPV, a sexually-transmitted virus. In February 2007, Texas Gov. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You will see that the only nations with any sort of future are those that protect and nurture the health of their people and their environment, taking a long-term perspective rather than short-term economic gain. America has no long-term vision other than controlling world oil resources. America has no investment whatsoever in the health of its people and virtually no effort to protect its environment. America is fixated on short-term thinking and stop-gap measures, ignoring the greater concerns of education, renewable energy, individual health and individual liberty. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And they're potentially taking a huge risk since no one knows the long-term consequences of such blatant disruption of normal hormone cycles. You can bet, however, that the results won't be positive. Although this is just a guess, I believe that long-term use of such synthetic chemicals may greatly increase the risk of hormone-related cancers such as breast cancer and cervical cancer. They may also cause blood stasis in the abdomen and could very easily, in my view, result in increased endometriosis and severe reproductive problems. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Legalize hemp and make long-term prescription drug use illegal
Now, if we had honest leaders in this country, prescription drugs would be illegal, at least for long-term use, and hemp would be legal. We could grow hemp for industrial use. Create new revenues streams for farmers. Grow our own biodiesel and reduce our need to import foreign oil.
At the same time, we need to outlaw many prescription drugs, especially for long-term use. We need to outlaw, for one thing, the use of these drugs in children. |
Ann N. Martin
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 Long-Term Effects
We don't know the long-term effects of sodium pentobarbital ingested in small amounts over many years. If indeed, as the FDA confirmed in its study, sodium pentobarbital exists in small quantities in most of the pet foods it tested, and animal companions eat these foods regularly—what might be the adverse effects over years of exposure?
It seems the only way we can prevent this drug from being passed on to other animals, via rendering or improper burial, is to have all animals who are euthanized with any drugs containing sodium pentobarbital to be cremated or incinerated. |
Mark Lynas
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 Indeed, the long-term drying trend which caused such misery and devastation during the second half of the twentieth century goes into full reversal after about 2020 (with one-degree global warming or less), when the Sahel sees a long-term recovery in its rainfall. By 2050 the recovery is in full swing, with 10 per cent more rainfall right across the sub-Saharan zone.
This conclusion is supported by a second study, which projects heavier rains on both the West African coast and into the Sahel as a warmer tropical Atlantic Ocean supplies huge amounts of water vapour to form rain-bearing clouds. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Yet, from such limited testing, the FDA declares the drugs to be safe for everyone, even for long-term use, without a shred of evidence that such long-term use is safe.
No scientific testing whatsoever has been done to fully document the toxic effects of combinations of medications. Deadly drug interactions are simply noted after the fact. Consumers who take multiple prescription drugs are literally serving as Big Pharma's guinea pigs.
There is currently no requirement whatsoever that drug side effects noticed by doctors be reported to the FDA. |
Mark Lynas
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| Indeed, the long-term drying trend which caused such misery and devastation during the second half of the twentieth century goes into full reversal after about 2020 (with one-degree global warming or less), when the Sahel sees a long-term recovery in its rainfall. By 2050 the recovery is in full swing, with 10 per cent more rainfall right across the sub-Saharan zone.
This conclusion is supported by a second study, which projects heavier rains on both the West African coast and into the Sahel as a warmer tropical Atlantic Ocean supplies huge amounts of water vapour to form rain-bearing clouds. |
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| A short, two-year study like CHEERS would of course fail to reveal these long-term effects and the American Chemistry Council could then publicize these findings as "proof" that its chemicals were safe.
2006 - 2007
Merck begins pushing U.S. states to mandate the vaccination of teenage girls with Gardasil, a vaccine they claim prevents HPV, a sexually-transmitted virus. In February 2007, Texas Gov. Rick Perry -- who was revealed to have financial ties with Merck, the vaccine manufacturer -- mandates the vaccine in teenage girls (see http://www.newstarget.com/021572.html ). |
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