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ADD/ADHD diagnosis and Obesity on the rise ... A link between the two?
add/adhd diagnosis with the prescription of ritalin and other like drugs are on the rise, as is obesity. Ritalin makes you sedentary - obesity to follow would make sense to me ...
STANWOOD, WA, February 11, 2010 /Children and Youth PR News/ -- Obesity and ADHD - A link?
Childhood obesity is on the rise at an alarming rate within the USA. I would say it is pretty close to being termed as epidemic proportion. When I was a child it was quite rare to see another child that was overweight. You saw it occasionally, but it was perhaps one child in a class. Now, you see probably 10 in a class of 20-30 children. This is sad. This should be alarming to us as parents and to us as a nation.
While many factors play in to this, I want to pose a new train of thought on the topic. Who has paid attention to how many of these children who are overweight were once diagnosed with ADD / ADHD and are now given medication for this diagnosis that then leaves them sedentary?
ADD/ADHD has hit epidemic proportion in our country - and only the USA. More of our children are sedated every day of their life through the drugs given for this diagnosis than other countries have of total population of drugged citizens for all combined diagnosis'. It is alarming if you look at the true figures. Yet, one by one, we march our children in for the diagnosis because they act out in a manner we cannot or do not wish to explain.
But if your child is obese and has also been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD and given meds for this, I would be thinking about this and speaking with your child's doctor to see if they think their may be a relationship between the two and then you think it through yourself, as well, and see if you may see a link here.
When my son was in third grade, I was told he had ADD/ADHD. They reached this conclusion because he was yancy in class and would not sit still at times... He was not being a problem child but he wasn't sitting still, so they determined he was unable to. My response was this child was bored. He was being taught stuff he already knew because I had taught it to him at home. I told them he needed to be challenged and then they would see focus from him and a different child. He could sit still for hours if he was challenged and focused. They told me they could not do this for one child, they had no time or resources for that. They told me they wanted me to allow them to place him on Ritalin, which would be the ultimate solution for this problem. Well, I declined. We went on to homeschool, where he could be challenged.
That was 9 years ago. He is now a senior, finishing this last year but in college, earning a degree at the same time. He speaks Japanese almost as fluently as he speaks English, he works two jobs while going to school and for the most part maintains an A average in all subjects. He has never been on Ritalin. He is also not hyperactive. He is normal active.
We will stick with making the best of life and living it drug free.
by RB
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