I'm very concerned about this article. Sure, there IS a brain wiring problem that should be diagnosed as ADHD. You heard that talked about on one of my broadcasts by the expert in this metro area. However only 3 to 5 % of children could be so diagnosed, while fully 88% of the population respond to red dye with symptoms like ADHD. Each and every "test" item on this page, obscures the whole truth, will encourage poor parenting, and encourages reliance on the medical industry that admittedly has no scientific criteria for this diagnosis and extremely poor "solutions." Yet, this page looks very proper. Notice the imprimatur in the lower right hand corner. A person needs to be a very discerning consumer of information -- because some of the most official is exactly dis-information, or self-serving propaganda.
My position is that proper lifestyle measures should alwys be addressed first. Given the absence of a scientific diagnosis, this seems even more salutary. If lifestyle measures, such as laying off red dye work, then further measures are obviated. Always better to use measures that are generally pro-health. Always use expensive, health undermining measures as last resorts.
But of course, there may be some people who get paid for pushing controlled substances.
GSB is not against medicine. It is for healing -- anyway it comes. The first step is one toward general basic wellness lifestyle. Numerous scientific studies show that such measures make for health, as well as undergirding any medical interventiont that seems necessary. GSB comes from a faith perspective, an educational perspective and a parental perspective.
Therefore, I would like to see a world of improvement; I think this is not good parental education at all. It misinforms parents with half-truths. It denigrates what moms can do. It is more likely to reduce health and transfer wealth than to help the lives of children.
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