Overcoming ADHD Without Medication: A Guidebook for Parents and Teachers

Educational television can increase IQ in children. Conversely, entertainment television/movies/music videos, etc. decreases IQ in children, teens, into adulthood.

You Are What You Watch? The Social Effects of TV There’s new evidence that viewing habits can affect your thinking, political preferences, even cognitive ability.

ADHD Without Medication: In Newark, NJ middle schools 80% to 100% of 8th grade boys play violent video games.

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ADHD Without Medication: One teacher in an urban school district notes that almost 40% of Kindergarten children, over 40% of 1st graders, and 60% of 2nd graders watch violent or R-rated movies.

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ADHD Without Medication: Natural Remedies for Depression and Anxiety --------------------Self-Help for Depression and Anxiety
http://aycnp.org/natural_remedies_for_depression_and_anxiety.php

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ADHD Without Medication:A study from 1993 indicated that mice given Ritalin at a similar proportional level as would be given to children developed liver tumors,including malignant cancers.
The Cancer Prevention Coalition, a Chicago based 501 (c)3 non-profit states,“The National Toxicology Program accepted responsibility for conducting trials on carcinogenicity and in June 1993 released results showing that feeding mice Ritalin induced liver tumors including very rare and highly malignant cancers. These results were found at levels close to those routinely prescribed for children." The Cancer Prevention Coalition was founded by Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., Professor emeritus Environmental & Occupational Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago. http://www.neuroimmunedr.com/Articles/ADHD___ADD/Retalin/retalin.html

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ADHD Without Medication: Researcher Randa A. El-Zein, MD, PhD, states, "It was pretty surprising to me that all of the children taking [Ritalin] showed an increase in chromosome abnormalities in a relatively short period of time."Toxicologist and senior investigator of the study, Marvin Legator, PhD,states, "Nobody is saying that because a child takes Ritalin he or she will develop cancer. There is nothing certain about this yet, but this is potentially a very large risk factor."
http://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/childhood-adhd/news/20050301/does-ritalin-increase-cancer-risk-in-children #1

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ADHD Without Medication: 13 ideas for beating depression
http://simplifiedskills.com/13-ways-naturally-beat-depression/

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ADHD Without Medication: Bipolar Disorder Over-diagnosed by 50%
Using a self-administered questionnaire, Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID) and a review of the family history, the research team found that "fewer than half of the patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder,actually met the criteria for this condition, based on the SCID diagnostic questionnaire. (M. Zimmerman, M.D., at Brown Medical School).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18466044

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ADHD Without Medication: ADHD and Depression
Several well-conducted studies have shown that children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder/Attention Deficit Disorder are more likely than others to become depressed at some time during their development. In fact, their risk for developing depression is as much as 3 times greater than for other children.


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ADHD Without Medication:ISU study proves conclusively that violent video game play makes more aggressive kids
http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2010/mar/vvgeffects

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ADHD Without Medication: "If we train the brain to require constant stimulation and constant flickering lights, changes in sound and camera angle, or immediate feedback, such as video games
can provide, then when the child lands in the classroom where the teacher doesn't have a million-dollar-per-episode budget, it may be hard to get children to sustain their attention." Gentile, Iowa State University
http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2010/jul/TVVGattention

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