-> LAVONNE DAVIS-SCHENCK was thinking about Ritalin and keyed into 
yberspace:
->
-> LD> KA> I, by the way, am a serious case of ADHD and my mother permitted 
LD>
-> KA> neither junk  food nor television in her household.
->
-> LD>     Thank you for that statement.  My son has ADD, my daughter is LD>
-> not. I can't say they've *never* had junk food, nor can I say LD>     they
-> watch *no* television, but it seems pretty clear to me that LD>     if
-> medication helps my son, and a check of the med box explains LD>     why
-> he's off in la-la land, then diet and TV are not the cause LD>     of his
-> behavior.  If diet and TV definitely caused ADD/ADHD, LD>     shouldn't we
-> see a lot more of it than we do?
->
-> Of course. If junk food and TV caused ADHD there would have been no
-> commentaries about it nearly a hundred years ago, while Jane was in 
ursing
-> school.
->
Whoa, Jane must be younger than I thought (BG).
-> We see so much of it because the genetics of this country are permeated 
with
-> the genes of the pioneers.
What more perfect a group to conquer a new world, than a bunch of ADDer's.
Impulsive and always looking for a new rush.
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