News 2003 07
News 2003 07
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Success: Dan Hazlett. Human Potential: Aged Marathon Runner. Breaking News: Russian Edition. Quote: Too
Fat for CAT. Behavioral Anthropology: Mood Sweetener. Recipe: Devilled Strawberries. Q&A: Healthy Tea;
Poultry Liver. News Shorts: Tea Boosts Immune System; Diabetic Time Bomb; Child Diabetic Unsightliness. Cancer
Briefing: Colon Cancer part 5. Nutritional Anthropology: Cannibalism. Food Supply: Misleading Meat Labels;
Donkey Salami; Food Purity. Disease Links: Low Potassium/Stroke. Rant of the Month: McKeith’s “Living Food
Energy”. Siren Song: Drugged on Ritalin.
means that synthetic pesticides, of this kind. But if you don’t like Our View? We are uncovering
fertilizers, antibiotics, genetic the idea, the solution is simple every day yet more ways in which
engineering, irradiation, sewage and Natural Eating-conforming: behavior that deviates from our
sludge, artificial ingredients and don’t buy processed or preserved naturally adapted lifestyle is
many other nefarious practices food. Get it fresh and wash and undermining our health in the
have been banned. clean it to your heart’s desire. most unsuspected ways.
The ingredients include sea active manner for the next 24 Behavioral Anthropology
'vegetable' and algae. Why not hours. Noven says their patch is
include volcanic ash, or china "comfortable" and "well suited to Mood Sweetener
clay, or minced sealskin -- all of active lifestyles." Ah, the Researchers gave a bag of
which can be made out to have marketing rhetoric has already sweets to two groups of people
something 'essential' to the body? begun. Just imagine the photo of and asked them that question.
the "active lifestyle" family that Those on a “sugar high” were
Will this lot do any harm? - will appear on the package - happy to wait. Those who ate the
Probably not -- except to the bank smiling parents, maybe they're sweets afterwards opted to take
balance. Will it lull the victim into wearing tracksuits (active!), and the smaller sum of money rather
a false sense of security? two smiling, comfortably than wait.
Certainly, and therein lies the composed children. And what's Studies such as this, which
main danger. There is only one wrong with this picture? Just one focus on how rational decisions
honest solution -- get the trash thing: the children are on drugs are affected by our lifestyle, are
out of the diet and the good more powerful than cocaine. throwing new light on our
stuff in. What is wrong with us? Why evolutionary programming. It
don’t we ask what is going wrong discomfits economists whose
Siren Song with our children? Why don’t we models assume that people are
aim at the origins of the problem? always rational and always act in
Don’t be duped
(If indeed there is a ‘problem’ and their best economic interests.
Fool’s Paradise: Ritalin not just normal high spirits.) In this particular example it is
If you have children or
speculated that because of the
grandchildren, then you've heard
We know that dysfunctional hyperglycemia, high levels of
of Ritalin, the drug most
lifestyle factors are a major brain serotonin were induced
commonly prescribed to children
influence on ADHD. In our which in turn has a calming effect
to address Attention Deficit-
newsletter of December 2002 we on mood. But this is all simplistic
Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
talked about the additive/ADHD guesswork for the moment and
But a recent study 16 finds that
connection and also about the much uncharted territory remains
Ritalin has a more potent effect
junk food/ADHD connection. We to be discovered.
on the brain than cocaine.
also know that food allergies, On thing is for sure -- this is
chemical sensitivities, malnour- not a license to eat sweets!
Every day, a staggering one and ishment and even toxic metals
a half million American children are implicated. Keywords: Hazlett, Singh, marathon, Russian
take this drug. In the UK, edition, Airis, CAT, mood, economics,
prescriptions have increased 15- strawberry, devilled, tea, oolong, poultry, liver,
Just get the garbage out of your foie gras, diabetes, time bomb, acanthosis,
fold just in the five years to 1999. nigricans, colon, time bomb, cannibalism, Foré,
children’s diet and feed them the
Considering how little is known way we teach -- that is the only label, donkey, salami, contaminant, potassium,
stroke, night shift, melatonin, Hua, McKeith,
about how Ritalin works and its honest, healthy way to go. Ritalin, Noven.
long-term effects, this situation is
disgraceful. 1
Annual Scientific Session; American College of
From Page 1 Cardiology; March 20, 2001
2
Now Noven Pharmaceuticals has 3
Sesso; Am J Epidemiol 1999; 149:162-167.
Geleijnse; The Rotterdam Study; Archives of
developed a Ritalin patch. A Human Potential Internal Medicine; Oct 1999
Ritalin patch? That's right just put 4
Suganuma; Japanese Cancer Association; Sept. 30,
it on your child every morning Fit for Life in Old Age 5
1998
Morre; American Society of Cell Biology;
before school, and throughout the All right, Fauja Singh is December 21, 1998
day it administers a time-released exceptional, but he is not a freak;
6
93rd annual meeting, American Association for
dose of Ritalin. Forget those there are many thousands of men 7
Cancer Research, May 2002
Wu, Archives of Internal Medicine; May 13, 2002
annoying pills. Forget the and women who keep them- 8 Haqqi; Proceedings of the National Academy of
inconvenience of a school nurse selves in good shape and Sciences 1999; 96:4524-4529.
9
having to deliver a dose to your compete in Senior Olympic
Bukowski, J; Proc Nat Acad Sciences, April 22,
2003
child in the middle of the school competitions. We don’t have to 10
Slattery et al; Nutr. Cancer; 2001; 39(2):170-5
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day. Slap on the patch and, rest go to that extreme, but we should 12
Kohno; Oncol. Rep. 2000 Sep –Oct 7(5):1069-74
August et al; J Nat. Cancer Inst, 1999; 91:950-953
assured, your child will not certainly aim at being physically 13
Slattery; AJCN 2000 Feb; 71(2):575-82
behave in a developmentally viable until advanced old age.
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15
Mead; Science; April 11, 2003
Laden; J Nat Cancer Inst; June 2003
inappropriate, impulsive or hyper- 16
JAMA 2000; 283:1025-30
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