I like to write diaries about topics that could help people and in my opinion everything is political so therefore everything is fodder for a political diary. I am not a medical professional but I feel fine about criticizing medical professionals and a medical community in general that props up a pill-for-every-ill pharmaceutical industry mindset and their insurance industry puppetmasters.
So yet another study has come out that reinforces other new studies which show that Ritalin and the like are useless against ADHD and actually stunts children's growth: after all, it's like prescribing toxic cocaine to a child. This new study shows the benefits of change in diet, in particular abstention from milk, which seems to have literally cured ADHD for some children who have metabolic defects. Autism studies have focuses on this same metabolic defects.
Diet change gives hyperactive kids new taste for life in Norway
The group set out to prove a theory by Oslo-based scientist Karl Ludvig Reichelt that a metabolic disorder making it difficult to break down certain proteins, including casein (the protein in milk that makes it possible to make cheese), could cause mental problems like Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
"One of the kids I worked with started on the diet on Wednesday and by the weekend his parents said they saw a huge positive change in his behaviour," says special educator Magne Noedland, who helped spearhead the diet project.
The article goes on to explain that 22 of 23 children's families reported drastic improvements after starting a milk-free diet.
But those numbers aren't good enough for pill-for-your-ill corrupted medical professionals (or worse, who are just ignorant) who are "skeptical" and who still want Ritalin despite studies showing Ritalin to be ineffective and stunts growth:
Much international research has been done linking such protein disorders to cases of autism and schizophrenia, and a growing number of studies also hint that some cases of ADHD are connected with the digestive problem.
There is however a lot of scepticism to the theory in medical circles, with many doctors believing medication like Ritalin is the best way to treat the condition.
Again, what can it be besides malpractive, ignorance, or corruption that most doctors want kids to stay on Ritalin despite studies indicating it stunts growth and is otherwise as effective as doing nothing at all:
Omar Khwaja, M.D., Ph.D., a neurologist at Children's Hospital in Boston, last year analyzed studies of different ADHD drugs and found strong evidence that ADHD drugs do, indeed, stunt children's growth. In fact, Khwaja and colleagues calculated a growth effect that almost exactly matches the effect seen in the Swanson study.
From link above.
How pathetic is mainstream medicine to have gotten it so wrong and worse CONTINUE GETTING IT WRONG WHEN EVIDENCE PROVES THEM WRONG!!!???
Instead of going after the root environmental causes, they try to disrupt what the environmental causes have inflicted on children using toxic pharmaceutical drugs.
I lay the blame squarely at the feet of Big Pharma and a medical community corrupted by Big Pharma.
As a first-time father, I am glad to see that preventative care has taken hold in the medical community to some extent but, for the most part, mainstream medical professionals still function using snake-oil medicines and most are fine operating that way.
To all those who labor in the medical field doing good, this diary is NOT aimed at you, just the doctors at the top who have such cozy relationships with pharmaceutical industries, who get those fat speaking engagements and look the other way when patients could get better care.