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Originally Posted by redforever
Everyone would benefit from cooking from scratch, and using the most natural and wholesome ingredients possible.
Years ago, people were on high carb and high sugar diets and there was not the high incidence of ADD. They worked much harder though and never had as sedentary lives as people today.
I personally believe that preservatives, colorants, all those kinds of things, are much worse for you than sugar. My son was extremely active as a child, not ADD, but just very active. He could have a cookie or some kind of baked treat, never bothered him. BUT, give him smarties, actually for him, the combination of chocolate and colorants, and you could wipe him off the ceiling.
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I have a rock in my pocket and have not been attacked by a lion. Clearly those things must have to be cause and effect. Sugar has been proven time and time again to have no effect on hyperactivity, good or bad. Fact is the higher incedence of ADHD is strictly due to higher diagnosis rates and better access to care as well as knowledge. Are you telling me years ago with this higher sugar diet you claim people had they had the same access to psychiatrists? Same goes for everyone's various conspiracy theories on autism. We search more for it, find more because of that, then it's diet related? Why can't people accept we don't all have some intrinsic ability to get to this perfect state of being and may need help to cope?
Sorry, don't mean to pick, but this "if you eat the right foods, herbs, etc it will make you better than you are now" theory irks me
/rant