In 2008 a study was published in the British Medical Journal that shows a clear connection between hyperactivity in children and chemical additives in foods. Removing junk food from a child’s diet is a simple treatment that has no side-effects and plenty of positive effects compared with drugs which have horrendous side-effects such as nervousness, insomnia, anorexia; nausea; dizziness; palpitations; headache, cardiac arrhythmia; abdominal pain etc., etc.
A study by the Montreal Children’s Hospital found that after five years hyperactive children who received drugs (either Ritalin or Chloropromazine) did not differ significantly from children who had not received them.
Although it appeared that hyperactive kids treated with Ritalin were initially more manageable, the degree of improvement and emotional adjustment was essentially identical at the end of five years to that seen in a group of kids who had received no medication at all.
Of course the big difference between the kids who took no drugs and those that took the drugs was that pharmaceutical companies made no profit from the kids who took no drugs. And the non-drug kids didn’t get any of the horrible side-effects.
So why are these drugs used at all if the end result is the same as if the kids took nothing? As the legal profession says “cui bono?” (who benefits?)
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