JANE KELLEY was thinking about Ritalin and keyed into cyberspace:
JK> TK> -> would I call either the Seattle Times or the Los Angeles
JK> TK> Times, both of whom
JK> TK> -> just reported the latest findings on dopamine receptors and
JK> TK> all kinds of
JK> TK> -> addictions, as such.
JK> TK> No one is saying anything of the sort.  The only problem anyone
JK> TK> has trouble with is, the idea that food allergies are the sole
JK> TK> cause of ADHD. Almost all the research I have seen agree with
JK> TK> fact that the major factor in ADHD/ADD is with either dopamine
JK> TK> production, or dopamine uptake through the rectors.
JK>Are you also aware that a remedial diet will increase the amount of
JK>dopamine  receptors?  And that this has been known for some time now?
How about a citation to a scientific study, not a sales site, that shows 
that? Think you can back up *ONE* of your statements for a change?
JK>Are you also aware that back in the 1930's when the Big Book of A.A.
JK>was  written that the prevailing theory was that alcoholism is the
JK>result of food  allergies?  And that all of the later research was to
JK>either support that  theory or to bebunk it?
Jane, in scientific investigation (do you have the slightest clue as to 
what that is?) a theory is proposed, and then it is tested. Therefore, 
it is absolutely logical that such a theory would generate such 
research.
JK>We have known about food allergies much longer than we have known
JK>about  anything else in diets, and, the effects of the food allergies
JK>are such that  we can easily relate cause and effect if we get hives
JK>after eating berries. 
For something that simple, yes. ADHD is not that simple.
JK>What we don't relate very well are the cerebral effects of the
JK>allergies  which are not as easy to learn.
Assuming, of course, that there are cerebral effects. So far, diet has 
not been shown to cause true ADHD.
JK> TK> Ohh now Jane, we all know that you are capable of thinking for
JK> TK> yourself.
JK>For that I can thank some of my  Stuart ancestors!
I thought your name was Kelley?
               The Few. The Proud. The Chosen.
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