Have you ever wondered where ADHD in children comes from?

[mick e]

Let's start exploring possible causes shall we? Here's one:

Might one source be the ROCKET FUEL in baby formula??????

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=7242880&page=1

[Doc]

...And since you need to add water to make formula, you're probably doubling the dose.

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/sep/23/.../na-perc23

Think of the bright side: With all of the marvelous toxins in our food and water, the odds of some of us developing comic book mutant super powers have gone up tremendously.

[kj4btkljv]

Exploding diapers for sure.

Jeff

[Fred_Also]

ADHD comes from under employed psychologists!


Fred Also

[Manlove]

Fred_Also wrote:
ADHD comes from under employed psychologists!


Fred Also

Hear hear!

[Article Accelerator]

It comes from teachers and Ritalin.

[Harbourmaster]

I see that you are all clearly speaking from experience... :tongue:

[davester]

This is currently a we don't know shit issue. There really is no evidence that perchlorate is a problem. There are a bazillion other contaminants out there that are clearly much bigger problems. Try radon or lead, which are far more damaging than the latest contaminant du jour, but are ignored by the public because there's no single polluter to pin the blame on, and in the case of radon all we can blame is mother earth. Although the right wingers are wrong on so many anti-environmental issues, in the case of many pollutants, the left wing is also full of shit. Perchlorate MIGHT be a big environmental problem but the jury hasn't even started deliberating.

Oh, and you "ADHD isn't important" people...this is a very real problem, though the importance has been diluted by overdiagnosis. So, unless you actually know something, STFU.

[TheCaber]

I worry more about estrogen and progesterone in the wastewater effluent being recycled as drinking water; especially since the late 60's. Standard water treatment (ion exchange resin columns, chlorination, fluoridation, sedimentation/filtration) doesn't pull them out. Distillation would, but that's a low-volume output for high-energy input process.

HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) as a low-cost sweetener/sugar replacement is another 40+ year food supply additive/contaminant.

Oh, joy.

[lazydays]

You guys are scaring the crap out of me. I run all my water thru a dual filtration unit. First stage for sediment and second stage carbon filter. I hope that is helping! We don't drink much soda in our house.