Is ADD caused by neglect?

[AFCM]

I never said those links proved anything. As I mentioned, I'll post the links to the actual studies later. At the time, I was simply posting links that supported the report. From there, you can most likely find a link to the final details. As for the prison study, if you scroll down, you'll notice where the author mentions the study of fish oils and ADD.

I never said fish oil cures everything. I simply believe that most of our ailments in America derive from our collective nutritional deficiencies. If you develop a headache, you might reach for aspirin to treat the symptom. I, on the other hand, will gulp down some water to hydrate my body and treat the cause, since most random headaches are the result of dehydration. You see, if you don't supply your body with essential things like water AND ESSENTIAL FATTY ACIDS, you're going to exhibit certain symptoms, some of which may not seem related to the deficiency at all.
The body is designed to function normally and heal itself. Not everything can be cured by nutrients, but a lot can be prevented. There is a reason doctors in nearly every country but America recommend things like fish oils to their patients so often. What's even scarier is that doctors in America typically don't recommend these simple additions to a lifestyle.

For example: If you want to lower your cholesterol and blood pressure, you can take the drugs prescribed to you by your doctor, which will cost you a fortune and always comes with a risk of serious side effects. If I need to lower my BP and cholesterol, I'll stick with:

Of course, fish oils...
Niacin, a B3 vitamin, which is the only thing proven to lower LDL levels while raising HDL
Red Yeast Rice, which naturally contains lovastatin, the active ingredient in most prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs
Hawthorn Berries
CoQ10
...so on and so forth

I respect your ideas and beliefs; you're a very smart man. At the same time however, I believe most of our health problems come from nutritional deficiencies, while our country spends billions of dollars treating the symptoms instead of addressing the causes.

[bandnerd]

In Mid's case, I can speak for his diet--he eats well. I cook for him, and I cook good, healthy foods. He isn't lacking in his diet for much, if anything. And yet, the ADHD is still there.

I have my own problems, too, and despite my healthy diet, they remain. Healthy food helps, but it doesn't always fix everything for me.

However, I know plenty of people who complain about being tired, and cranky, and they eat horribly. I can see where you're going with this, AFCM, but I just don't think it's going to help everything.

[Midtowner]

The trouble is that few of us, not even me, as erudite as I am , are equipped to verify the veracity of most of these claims.

The vitamin industry has a long and storied history of making exaggerated and even completely false claims. They are able to do so primarily because there is no regulatory agency which governs the quality of their products or the functionality.

So we get products which make outrageous claims like Airborne, a product still sold in stores, which claimed to cure and prevent the common cold. The product claims to have been proven effective in one of your "studies" done by a group called GNG.

Check out this ABC News report about that particular claim and product:



There are some who would even caution you that the recommended dosages of Vitamin C suggested on the packaging could be dangerous. Of course, you have to take their word for it that the products on the packaging are actually in the product (which is doubtful considering the companies speckled history with the truth).

There are other famous products such as Enzyte. Which are absolute scams -- all supported with "studies."

So will I take the word of the (real) medical community at large, who are bound by professional ethical standards over the vitamin industry hacks who are motivated primarily by profit, whose only ethical motivator is the possibility that they might get sued? You betcha.