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Food Additives May Cause Hyperactivity By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Posted Fri, Oct 26, 2007, 12:01 am PDT

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  • 1. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Oct 27, 2007, 8:41 am PDT

    There is no money to be made on healthy people. This will never get the attention it deserves. The goal is to get people hooked on pharmaceuticals from the earliest possible age. The concern for a child if that child cannot eat or drink the same thing as his friends is MORONIC and potentially DANGEROUS. That attitude is a big part of the problem - the AMERICAN EPIDEMIC.

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  • 2. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Oct 27, 2007, 8:41 am PDT

    There is no money to be made on healthy people. This will never get the attention it deserves. The goal is to get people hooked on pharmaceuticals from the earliest possible age. The concern for a child if that child cannot eat or drink the same thing as his friends is MORONIC and potentially DANGEROUS. That attitude is a big part of the problem - the AMERICAN EPIDEMIC.

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  • 3. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Oct 28, 2007, 10:44 am PDT

    the trouble here was they tried to lump additives with the sugar as they did the tobacco and asbestos situation.....but with the additives we suddenly had wide spread natural food stores blossom......the world needs to be on bread and water for two weeks before you can get their attention.......but please keep trying.....even though the color additive shows up in some foods we just don't need it in everything.........

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  • 4. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Nov 03, 2007, 7:55 pm PDT

    This just told me what I already suspected but gave me no advice, no real advice, on how to handle the problem.

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  • 5. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Thu, Jan 24, 2008, 6:32 am PST

    It was great to finally see that someone agreed about the food additives in the food. It was terrible to see the comment from Mass. General Hospital. I suppose that being a traditional doctor, he would find it easier to simply give the child drugs to correct the behavior instead of taking away the source of the behavior. Once again I've been let down by traditional medicine.

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  • 6. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Tue, Jun 10, 2008, 4:30 am PDT

    Feinglod diet is a way to prevent to adhd.

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  • 7. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, Aug 06, 2008, 12:02 am PDT

    i have adhd

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  • 8. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, Mar 25, 2009, 11:20 am PDT

    "avoiding certain foods and drinks might have its own negative impact if a child cannot eat or drink the same things as his or her friends." Peer-pressure? Seriously? Parents are going to let their kids eat certain things just so other kids won't think they're weird? Will they follow that same warped logic in regard to marijuana? Here Susie, all the other kids will think you're weird if you don't smoke pot!

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