I have always suspected a link between the obesity epidemic, the ADHD epidemic and the autism epidemic.
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The following study from Temple University show a cure for ADHD.
Let’s get real for a minute. Fat people are really quite disgusting but putting that aside. They are terrible role models for children. Fat people are helping to cause ADHD both directly and indirectly. Read the article and you will see what I mean.
If you are obese and you love your kids more than McDonalds stick to eating healthy foods and limit that intake to 2000 cals for female 2500 for males and get off the couch and move!
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-05/tuhs-sfa051205.php
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Study finds ADHD improves with sensory intervention
Preliminary findings from a study of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) show that sensory intervention — for example, deep pressure and strenuous exercise — can significantly improve problem behaviors such as restlessness, impulsivity and hyperactivity. Of the children receiving occupational therapy, 95 percent improved. This is the first study of this size on sensory intervention for ADHD.
The Temple University researchers, Kristie Koenig, Ph.D., OTR/L, and Moya Kinnealey, Ph.D., OTR/L, wanted to determine whether ADHD problem behaviors would decrease if underlying sensory and neurological issues were addressed with occupational therapy. Their study, “Comparative Outcomes of Children with ADHD: Treatment Versus Delayed Treatment Control Condition,” will be presented Friday, May 13, at the American Occupational Therapy Association meeting in Long Beach, Calif.
Children with ADHD have difficulty paying attention and controlling their behavior. Experts are uncertain about the exact cause of ADHD, but believe there are both genetic and biological components. Treatment typically consists of medication, behavior therapy or a combination of the two.
“Many children with ADHD also suffer from sensory processing disorder, a neurological underpinning that contributes to their ability to pay attention or focus,” explained Koenig. “They either withdraw from or seek out sensory stimulation like movement, sound, light and touch. This translates into troublesome behaviors at school and home.”
Normally, we process and adapt to sensory stimulation in our daily environment. But children with ADHD are unable to adjust, and instead might be so distracted and bothered by a sound or movement in the classroom, for instance, that they cannot pay attention to the teacher.
All of the 88 study participants, who are clients at the OT4Kids occupational therapy center in Crystal River, Fla., were taking medication for ADHD. Of the 88, 63 children each underwent 40 one-hour sensory intervention therapy sessions, while 25 did not.
Therapy techniques appeal to the three basic sensory systems: The tactile system controls the sense of touch, the vestibular system controls sensations of gravity and movement, and the proprioceptive system regulates the awareness of the body in space. Therapy is tailored to each child’s needs and can involve such techniques as lightly or deeply brushing the skin, moving on swings or working with an exercise ball.
“We found significant improvement in sensory avoiding behaviors, tactile sensitivity, and visual auditory sensitivity in the group that received treatment,” said Koenig.
“The children were more at ease. They could better attend to a lesson in a noisy classroom, or more comfortably participate in family activities,” said Kinnealey. “The behavior associated with ADHD was significantly reduced following the intervention.”
The research team, which included Gail Huecker, the director of OT4Kids, believes that sensory intervention affects the plasticity, or adaptability, of the brain to sensory stimulation. In this study, changes were seen within six months.
Parents can learn how to continue the techniques at home. Koenig also observed that through this study, parents learned to view the disorder and the behaviors through a different lens.
“It’s easy for parents to look at ADHD and blame themselves or the child for the bad behavior,” said Koenig.
The goal of ADHD treatment is to prevent failure in school, family problems and poor self-esteem. If not addressed early, the disorder can trouble sufferers into adulthood.
In its current study, the group is working with a total of 135 children who have ADHD. Children who did not receive occupational therapy during the study have been scheduled to receive it afterward.
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Re: sensory intervention
Obesity in Mom has been linked to heart problems in the baby, an increased risk of diabetes and the specific birth defect of tuberous sclerosis. None of these 3 problems are ADHD, nor do they lead to ADHD.
You are using problem “A” to justify an unscientifically based rant which has no actual bearing to the forum you are choosing to pollute. If you cannot stay on topic, please go to a forum dealing with childhood diabetes, heart disease or tuberous sclerosis.
Better yet, please see someone who can help you work through this obsession you have with harassing obese women.
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I thought LDOnline did away with the “Guest” feature…….
They should…it would keep creeps like this off this forum, because trolls such as this guy (I’m sorry, but I’m so sure it has got to be to be a guy), always remain anonymous, because essentially they are cowards, and will not post this trash if they are identifiable. And I think I’m speaking on behalf of everyone who reads and/or participates in this forum, we do not care to read one more word of this trash.
Please re-consider doing away with the “Guest” option, LDOnline.
Doing away with "Guest" user
The “Guest” posting was by a user who found a way of logging in and having his posts appear as “Guest.” We have implemented some changes that should prevent that in the future.
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Cathryn — good to see you back!
We are suffering from a troll invasion at the moment. The moderators are doing what they can while still keeping this an open forum; a hard line to draw. Contact LD Online when you see something truly inappropriate.
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The best course of action will be of course to delete those posts which cross the line from differing opinions into abusive harassment (case in point “Hindeberg”.
And yes Vic I read your PM and yes I agree with you in both theory and practice (and have indeed counseled the same on this forum as well as on others). Sometimes things are said which just get uner my skin and my OCD kicks in and I simply must reply. Hope springs eternal that logic and facts can triumph over slander and lies, and my responses are geared less at converting the troll than in bolstering the maligned and nudging the fence-sitters back to more sure ground.
Best course of action (IMNSHO) is to have LDOnline crush the offending posts, delete the particular (aB)user, and perhaps contact the idjut’s ISP. (Yes, I hate censorship, but sometimes the line gets crossed.
It is a shame that we have a copuiple trolls who refuse to apply proper debate and argument techniques in their discourses. Even erroneous opinions have their place and can strengthen our community by exposing why they are false.
Heck, on some boards I am treated as a pariah myself, even though I am really a swell guy ;)
Re: sensory intervention
Hi victoria, it’s great to be back, and always wonderful to read your posts, and hear from you!
Get this - RotundaHindenburg sent me a PM about his usual obsession! It was of course all garbage. What a jerk!
I am sorry, but there was nothing in the article you posted that had anything to do with obesity, either in the parents or in the children tested for SID who had ADHD.
If you are going to rant about your personal theory (fetish?) about “disgusting fat people” being the source of everything that is wrong in today’s world, you could ahve at least picked an article at least marginally connected to obesity.
SID has not been linked to obesity in any credible study I have read. A far better candidate for it would be low grade, chronic exposure to toxic metals both in utero as well as after the child is born. Most of the heavy metals are well established at impeding ability to focus and exercise proper executive functioning.