Unconscionable Drugging of Our Children

• Somnolence
• Increased appetite
• Fatigue
• Upper respiratory tract infection

• Vomiting, coughing, fever
• Tremors, muscle stiffness, and anxiety
• Restlessness, dizziness, and indigestion
• Urinary incontinence

• Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome, which can be fatal
• Tardive Dyskinesia, serious and sometimes permanent muscle tics
• Hormone disruption (including breasts producing milk and breast development in males)
• High blood sugar and diabetes
• Muscle disturbances (restlessness, tremors, muscle stiffness)

“The data show there is a substantial amount of prescribing for attention deficit disorder, and I wonder if we have given enough weight to the adverse-event profile of the drug in light of this,” Dr. Daniel Notterman, a senior health policy analyst at Princeton University and a panel member, told the New York Times about Risperdal. 

1. Give your child plenty of high-quality, animal-based omega-3 fats like krill oil.

2. Optimize their vitamin D levels. You can view my one-hour lecture in this issue in which I describe how vitamin D can upregulate over 2,000 genes in your body and many of them are crucial for emotional health.

3. Balance your child’s intake of omega-3 and omega-6 fats (from vegetables oils), by limiting their intake of vegetable oils and providing them with a high-quality animal source of omega-3 fat like krill or fish oil.

4. Avoid giving your child ANY processed foods, especially those containing artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives.

5. Replace soft drinks, fruit juices, and pasteurized milk in your child’s diet with pure water. This is HUGE since high fructose corn syrup is the NUMBER ONE source of calories in children -- remember this includes fruit juices!

6. Reduce or eliminate grains and sugars from your child’s diet -- yes even healthy organic whole grains can cause problems. Try eliminating them first for 1-2 weeks and see if you don’t notice a radical and amazing improvement in your child’s behavior.

7. Make sure your child gets plenty of exercise and outdoor playtime in the sunshine.

8. Provide your child a way to address his or her emotional stressors. Even children can benefit from the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), which you or an EFT practitioner can teach them how to use.