If a kid is hyper-energetic, run his off ass on the
track prior to class. They don't need Ritalin. Just run their asses
off two miles on the school track before classes, shower them up and send them
to school -- they'll be excellent students, and they will bring merits to the
school track team to boot. Good nutrition is a given. Duh!!!!
Carl F. Worden
A Simple thing like Eating
Right can make such Miraculous Changes. ====================================================================
Miracle At A Wisconsin High School StratiaWire.com 11-1-2 APPLETON, Wisconsin --
A
revolution has occurred. It's taken place in the Central Alternative High
School. The kids now behave. The hallways aren't frantic.
Even the teachers are happy.
The school used to be out of
control. Kids packed weapons. Discipline problems swamped the
principal's office.
But not since 1997.
What
happened? Did they line every inch of space with cops? Did they
spray valium gas in the classrooms? Did they install metal detectors
in the bathrooms? Did they build holding cells in the gym?
Afraid not. In 1997, a private group called Natural Ovens began
installing a healthy lunch program. Huh?
Fast-food burgers,
fries, and burritos gave way to fresh salads, meats "prepared with old-fashioned
recipes," and whole grain bread. Fresh fruits were added to the
menu. Good drinking water arrived.
Vending machines were
removed.
As reported in a newsletter called Pure Facts, "Grades
are up, truancy is no longer a problem, arguments are rare, and teachers are
able to spend their time teaching."
Principal LuAnn Coenen, who
files annual reports with the state of Wisconsin, has turned in some
staggering figures since 1997. Drop-outs? Students expelled?
Students discovered to be using drugs? Carrying weapons? Committing
suicide? Every category has come up ZERO. Every year.
Mary Bruyette, a teacher, states, "I don't have to deal with daily
discipline issuesI don't have disruptions in class or the difficulties with
student behavior I experienced before we started the food program."
One student asserted, "Now that I can concentrate I think it's
easier to get along with people" What a concept---eating healthier food
increases concentration.
Principal Coenen sums it up: "I can't
buy the argument that it's too costly for schools to provide good nutrition
for their students. I found that one cost will reduce another. I
don't have the vandalism. I don't have the litter. I don't have
the need for high security."
At a nearby middle school, the new
food program is catching on. A teacher there, Dennis Abram, reports,
"I've taught here almost 30 years. I see the kids this year as calmer,
easier to talk to. They just seem more rational. I had thought
about retiring this year and basically I've decided to teach another year---I'm
having too much fun!"
Pure Facts, the newsletter that ran
this story, is published by a non-profit organization called The Feingold
Association, which has existed since 1976. Part of its mission is to
"generate public awareness of the potential role of foods and synthetic
additives in behavior, learning and health problems. The [Feingold]
program is based on a diet eliminating synthetic colors, synthetic flavors, and
the preservatives BHA, BHT, and TBHQ."
Thirty years ago there
was a Dr. Feingold. His breakthrough work proved the connection
between these negative factors in food and the lives of children. Hailed
as a revolutionary advance, Feingold's findings were soon trashed by the medical
cartel, since those findings threatened the drugs-for-everything,
disease-model concept of modern healthcare.
But Feingold's
followers have kept his work alive.
If what happened in Appleton,
Wisconsin, takes hold in many other communities across America, perhaps the
ravenous corporations who invade school space with their vending machines and
junk food will be tossed out on their behinds. It could happen.
And perhaps ADHD will become a dinosaur. A non-disease that
was once attributed to errant brain chemistry. And perhaps Ritalin
will be seen as just another toxic chemical that was added to the bodies of
kids in a crazed attempt to put a lid on behavior that, in part, was the result
of a subversion of the food supply.
For those readers who ask
me about solutions to the problems we face---here is a real solution. Help
these groups. Get involved. Step into the fray. Stand up and
be counted.
The drug companies aren't going to do it.
They're busy estimating the size of their potential markets. They're
building their chemical pipelines into the minds and bodies of the young.
Every great revolution starts with a foothold. Sounds like
Natural Ovens and The Feingold Association have made strong cuts into the
big rock of ignorance and greed.
First published 10-14-2
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