We Are Atoms Fused From Love / Ritalin, Adderall, Stratera Can Cause Psychiatric and Heart Problems and DEATH / Fish Oil Saves Life

Banff National Park

 The Earth is truly
ALIVE.

And YOU
are made of this precious Earth.
Every atom and every molecule in existence

in this entire Universe,
is alive.
 

We are atoms fused from
Love
the Love of God.
We are part of the Beautiful Cosmos,
and the Cosmos
is part of us.
Because we are made
from the Sacred Earth,
we are Stardust,
bits and pieces of Stars and cosmic dust.
And
we are made in the Image.
of our Divine Creator.

Sunflower At Sunset, Closeup.

Every atom in you
was produced in the big bang.
Your carbon, nitrogen and oxygen atoms
were made in burning Stars.
And your very heavy elements
were made in exploding Stars.

Every tiny atom in our bodies
came from Stars that exploded
long before we were born.
Yes,
we are intimately connected
to the Natural World.
We are part of it.
WE
are one
with God,
and EVERYTHING
He Creates.

Hands Of A Child Taking A Plant From The Hands Of A Man - Garden

Our Sacred Earth grows
and it dies.
It produces Life
and is given back everything it creates.
Our precious Earth is abundant with Life.
And Life
is made abundant
for Truly Living.

We are made
of the four elements
that make up all matter –
Earth, water, air, and the Fire
of God’s Love.
For His very Breath
was our first Breath.
.
“Then the Lord God formed Man
of dust from the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of Life;
and man became a Living being.”
Isaiah 42:5

Illustration Of A Landscape With A Eagle

We Humans,
and our Galaxy,
have about 97 percent
of the same kind of atoms.
And the elements that make up Life
are more prevalent
toward the center of our Galaxy.

Every moment
of your precious Life
on this Sacred Earth
is alive.

These moments in Time
will one day be reflected
in your amazing and Beautiful
Soul.

Today,
I Pray

 that you Truly enjoy
the Treasure of your precious
and Sacred Gift

of Time.

Sunset And Tree

How can Life
become so tragic and be so incredibly
Beautiful
at the same time?


My Dear Friends,
it is so easy
to hate.
But,
it is much easier,
to Love.
.
No one
is capable of singing
the magnificent Song of your Life
like you.
Your precious Life
is genuinely
one of the most Beautiful moments

that can happen
in the history of Mankind.

Dandelion To Sunset - Freedom To Wish

We need to be reminded
that one day,
we must all stand alone
before the Creator of our Universe
and account for the precious Gift
of our Life.

“For those who presume upon the Lord,
God’s omniscience should remind us
that nothing anyone does escapes
the Knowledge of God
and that one day we will be called
to give an account at the bar of God
for God will deal with each
according to the Truth of his Life.”

Rom. 2:2, 3, 6; 14:10-12
Silhouette Of Strong Man Defying Nature

God raised us up
so we could stand
on the Beautiful Mountain
of awareness,
to Love.

You
can be the reason
someone smiles Today.
Your precious Love
can flow, on and on,
like a Celestial River.

Your Smile
can speak to another Soul
like words could never do.

Every encounter,
every circumstance, by chance or not,
be it good or bad,
Happy or sad,
is an opportunity to redefine
this moment,

to choose what we will be,
what we will become.

Happy Joyful Girl With Sunflower Enjoying Nature And Laughing On Summer Sunflower Field Will we be consciously present enough
in the moment,
to recognize the opportunity
when it happens
and step through the door
of Hope
and Salvation?

Words cannot describe
the Beauty of God’s Creation
that is YOU.
Your Spirit
can be uplifting
and pure.

It takes so little
of our caring and compassion
for others to realize
they are lifted up to the Heart
from a dark valley.
They will thank you
for your considerate Heart
with tears of Joy
and endless Gratitude.

Happy Woman   On The Sunset In Nature In Summer With Open Hands

And in one moment,
you will be one
with them,
and with the Universe,
and with God.

Our Prayers
of Thanksgiving
remind us of our responsibility
to be of Service
to Humanity.

The Gift of Life
is precious,
and we should Live it
with Gratitude in our Heart.
The older we are,
the more aware we become
of this.Woman Hands Praying And Free Bird Enjoying Nature On Sunset Background, Hope And Faith Concept

Smile,
and everything
will get better.
Your Smile
is Beautifully Human,
and Divine.

Through your Smiles,
you create a World
where tired Hearts
can find Happiness and Harmony.
In the presence of your Smiles,
Hearts survive and heal.
What an amazing piece of Heaven
to share
with others.

The magnificent sound
of your Compassionate voice
can reach to the very depths of the Heart
and inspire great Joy
in the Life of another.

In just a matter of Time.
your patient understanding
will find
Happiness,
for yourself
and for others.
Sunset Over The Lake. Amazing Panorama Landscape

Direct your energy
toward the end of suffering
for those around you.
What a Beautiful Gift
to our World
that can reflect the Beauty
of your Sacred Being.

Keep looking for Beauty,
and keep making Beautiful things happen
for those around you.

This Life
is but a short Journey,
and it can seem so long
and so full of suffering.
But with Prayer,
and the Promise of God,
one day you will be able
to laugh and Love genuinely.

I hope everyone
finds a place of Joy
and Peace.

Goodnight.

Tipsoo Lake Sunset

Sometimes,
you have to find a place just for yourself.
You
can find this place
in Prayer.

Stream Of Color

WE DIE
WHEN LOVE DIES
WITHIN OUR HEARTS.
AND WE KEEP LIVING,
WHEN LOVE IS BORN ANEW, AFRESH,
WITHIN OUR HEARTS.

Has anyone seen my laundry basket?

       Has anyone seen my laundry basket?

“For the greater individual
is the one who is the servant of all.
And to conquer self is greater than taking many cities.
For, here ye may find humbleness
as against that which cries oft for expression,
and the feeling of not being appreciated.
Express it more in the greater amount of Love
upon those who may be aided through thy effort.
For, remember,
man looks upon the things of the day
but God looks upon the Heart
.”

–  Edgar Cayce
.
From the National Briefs of the Baltimore Sun
The makers of Ritalin, Adderall, Stratera and other drugs that treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder were advised by the government to give patients and parents an additional warning that those medicines can cause SERIOUS psychiatric and heart problems,
including SUDDEN DEATH.
.
Now,
for the sadly humorous part.
After this stern and serious warning comes this from
OUR Food and Drug Administration:
 
Dr. Tom Laughren,
former Director of psychiatry products for the F. D. A.,
emphasized that the move was precautionary
and should not FRIGHTEN patients
from taking the drugs,
which he said are
SAFE?  ?  ?  ?  ?
.
You simply cannot make this up!
.
Of course this warning is not inclusive enough.
Ritalin is a highly addictive stimulant drug
and is the pharmaceutical equivalent to cocaine.
It is classified by our government as a psychoactive drug
with cocaine and morphine because it is
highly addictive.
.
Please read Why French Kids Don’t Have ADHD

posted on Jan. 13, 2014
on this website (William’s Weblog).
.
The Physicians’ Desk Reference admits evidence on the carcinogenicity of Ritalin.
Apart from cancer risks,
there is also evidence that Ritalin induces genetic damage
in blood cells of Ritalin-treated children.
.
My Dear Parents,
please,
I beg of you now and forever more,
remove your precious child from these harmful
and highly addictive substances.
.
There are many other things you can now do,
rather than use dangerous chemicals
to mask what you assume is a problem.
Your common sense will guide you
down the pathway of salvation.
.
I believe the first is to realize that there is
no problem.
You think you have a hyperactive boy?
No!
He is just a normal, healthy child
who needs to exercise his rapidly developing body.
Personally, I can attest to the fact
that I have never met a hyperactive child,
not in over forty years of providing for the needs of children.
.
By the way,
sports programs put highly active children to good use.
So why not take advantage of all that energy
and give the team a few extra points.
Sports programs are a viable way to give credit
and trophies and ribbons
and headlines and exercise and a great appetite
and new friends and admirers
to the so called hyper-active child.
.
Let’s turn what you,
the pill popping Doctor
or the educator
(suffering what I call: L.T. S. – lazy teacher syndrome)
may view as a disadvantage
into what is really a great advantage in Life.
On your way to letting your child try out for a spot on a team,
flush all those dumb pills,
together with all stupid advice,
down the toilet.
Flush it twice!
.
Please remember:
there is nothing wrong with your child.
God created each one of us in His Image.
He created us the way He wanted us to be.
We are perfect
in His Sight.

Send your child to school with a T-shirt that says:
.
Don’t Mess With Texas
and DON’T MESS WITH ME!

I shall always be DRUG FREE.

Second,
if he (or possibly she) is driving you crazy,
well,
welcome to the real world.
So open the back door and put him in the back yard,
playing with other kids and a big dog –
you know, slightly more active than he is.
Better yet,
show him or her how to use a hammer and nails
and let the kid build a tree house.
Closer to Heaven is where he belongs – up in the tree house.
I have been there
and it is truly wonderful!

And buy some band-aids.
Carpentry is one of those avocations
where mistakes are valuable
and painful.
You never have to tell a child to keep his eye on the nail twice.
The hammer is indeed a powerful teacher,
using natural teaching methodology.
.
Don’t ask me how I know this.
.
And give your child a list of things to do
to help you.
Hey, they owe you a lot!
And, believe it or not,
they will Love to help you.
You may consider paying for their service.
Did money not provide motivation for you to work?
Please do NOT give your child money.
We are not out to create potential political candidates with unrealistic expectations living in an unreal world.
Always let your children EARN what they receive.
.
As Mrs. Anderson is fond of saying,
“Money should be equal to work”.
And while they are playing outside remember,
absence does indeed make the Heart grow fonder.
Too much togetherness means –
not everyone will return from a two year trip to Mars.
Someone will get booted out on the way back!

Third.
Provide environments that are flexible
and surround your normally active
(not hyper active – it does not really exist)
child with real and realistic people,
you know, adults, that understand normal child development
and are citizens of the real world
(some are not).
Remove your child from the presence of others who are intolerant
– they are probably on something themselves.

Please do not permit corporate-driven and financially incentivized entities, or just plain lazy teachers,
to turn your son or daughter into a nearly comatose and endangered member of our species,
with drugs they will not themselves take.
Your child is not an experimental lab rat.

Remember,
you can lose the precious personality
of the child you adore.

These drugs will do that.
I have witnessed it.
Or worse, you can lose your child.
Now,
let’s turn to something positive we can do.

My dear friends,
we have suffered enough. 

Our ignorance,
coupled with the intolerable greed and arrogance
of corporate America,
has led us down a broad avenue
of disease and malnutrition.
.
Yes, we have had enough.
.
My Dear Friends,
our children deserve better.
You deserve better.
.

And the Internet, as laced as it is with pitfalls and danger,
is also a pathway to freedom.
It is a tool,  just a tool, as are many other technologies.
And in the right hands,
your hands,
it can lead you to a better quality of Life
and a longer Life for you and your children.
 
The use of it requires thoughtfulness
and a guiding hand,
which happens to be
YOUR hand.
Please allow me to share a beautiful story
of hope and salvation with you.
It comes From NaturalNews.
This article has enormous implications for prevention and cure.
It directly relates to you and your child.
Please take time and read it and contemplate its findings.
It provides yet
another simple solution.
 

Fish Oil saves life of boy with brain injury

by P. F. Louis
.
High school student Bobby Ghassemi was taken out of his crashed vehicle and airlifted to a nearby Virginia hospital more dead than alive with severe brain trauma.
He was so much more dead than alive
that the physician who eventually advised the Ghassemi family
on using fish oil, Dr. Michael Lewis said,
For all intents and purposes,
he was dead
on the scene.
I’m looking at the reports, and they report
a Glasgow Coma Score of three.
A brick or piece of wood has a Glascow Coma Score of three.
It’s dead.
.
“Bobby was placed in intensive care in a coma with all the apparatus possible to keep him a breath from death.
His brain was flooded with blood and a hole had to be put into his skull to relieve some of the pressure.
The hospital’s physicians commented that his brain injury was so bad,
it was a wonder that he was alive enough to be in a coma.
They told Bobby’s father and mother it was doubtful he’d be more than a vegetable if he came out of the coma.
He’d be unable to speak or recognize his family.
 

Time for a drastic intervention.

After 10 days, Bobby was still comatose.
His dad, Peter, felt more should be done
than maintaining stability in a coma.
So he started asking around to old Army buddies
and was led to Army colonel Dr. Micheal Lewis
who recommended fish oil
based on an early episode of a West Virginia coal miner
who barely survived a mining accident
with severe brain damage.
His condition had resembled Bobby’s.

The 26-year-old miner, Randall McCloy,
was “on death’s doorstep,”
according to Randall’s hospital neurosurgeon, Dr. Julian Bailes.
He and the other doctors then decided to forgo the normal wait
and see after Randall was stabilized in intensive care.

They decided to take a radical course from normal AMA protocol and put Randall into hyperbaric therapy to increase oxygen to his brain while administering fish oil through Randall’s feeding tube.
After a brain injury, even as some recovery is noticed,
the brain cells continue to die from progressive inflammation.

Dr. Bailes knew that the brain needs to feed on omega-3 fatty acids to heal inflammation as well as stimulate brain and nervous system cell growth. After discussing Randall’s condition with fish oil omega-3 experts, Dr. Bailes determined that 20 grams fed through Randall’s feeding tube daily might bring him around.

20 grams is 10 times more than what an uninjured person would supplement with fish oil.
.

Dr. Lewis explained the Dr. Bailes intervention
with Randall to Bobby’s dad,
who thought the whole thing strange.
But he realized that three months after the mining accident,
Randall McCloy
left the hospital walking and talking.

At first, the hospital staff resisted Peter’s urging
to try the fish oil therapy on his son Bobby.
Their viewpoint was that the McCloy incident was just one anecdotal episode and not worth pursuing, perhaps even risky. But Peter persisted strongly and they finally yielded.

Today, at age 20,
Bobby smiles as he recalls his high school graduation
where he took off his cap and waved it to the cheering students.
His dramatic recovery has left him with some weakness on the left side of his body and difficulty walking,
but he’s back.

Yet,
even after two successful applications of omega-3 fish oil for extremely brain damaged victims who recovered rapidly after both were written off from any significant recovery, the medical establishment only equivocates and considers the possibility of someday exploring omega-3 fish oil “scientifically” for brain traumas.

Sources for this article include: http://www.cnn.com

 
More news on fish oil

* In a Harvard Study: Fish Oil Cuts Risk of Lou Gehrig’s: Tuesday, 15 Jul 2014 – Read this  at http://www.newsmaxhealth.com/Health-News/Lou-Gehrigs-ALS-fish-oil-neurodegenerative/2014/07/15/id/582772#ixzz3A1Wpgq7b

Alert: What Is Your Risk for a Heart Attack?
Click here to Find Out Now
 

A man went out for a walk.
He came to a river and saw a woman on the opposite bank.
“Yoo-hoo,” he shouted, “how can I get to the other side?”
The woman looked up the river then down the river
then shouted back,
“You’re already on the other side.”

Life and Truth
is often a matter of perspective and viewpoint.

Lyrics/songs texts/paintings/articles
are property and copyright of their owners
and provided for educational purposes.

Copyright Disclaimer – Section 107 – Copyright Act 1976,
allowance is made for “fair use”
for purposes such as criticism, comment,
news reporting, teaching, scholarship,and research.
Fair use is permitted by copyright statute.

Non-profit, educational or personal use
tips the balance in favor of “fair use”.

© Copyright 1995-2021
The Anderson Private School.

“He who opens a school door,
closes a prison. “
Victor Hugo

Sunrise In The Mountains Free Stock Photo - Public Domain ...

I wish you all
 Peace.

Incredible Waterfall In Iceland, Silhouette Of Man Enjoying Amazing View Of Nature

I Beg of You Now and Forever More / A Beautiful Story

Has anyone seen my laundry basket?

       Has anyone seen my laundry basket?

“For the greater individual
is the one who is the servant of all.
And to conquer self is greater than taking many cities.
For, here ye may find humbleness
as against that which cries oft for expression,
and the feeling of not being appreciated.
Express it more in the greater amount of Love
upon those who may be aided through thy effort.
For, remember,
man looks upon the things of the day
but God looks upon the Heart
.”

–  Edgar Cayce
.
From the National Briefs of the Baltimore Sun
The makers of Ritalin, Adderall, Stratera and other drugs that treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder were advised by the government to give patients and parents an additional warning that those medicines can cause SERIOUS psychiatric and heart problems,
including SUDDEN DEATH.
.
Now,
for the sadly humorous part.
After this stern and serious warning comes this from
OUR Food and Drug Administration:
Dr. Tom Laughren, Director of psychiatry products for the F. D. A.,
emphasized that the move was precautionary
and should not FRIGHTEN patients
from taking the drugs,
which he said are
SAFE?  ?  ?  ?  ?
.
You simply cannot make this stuff up!
.
Of course this warning is not inclusive enough.
Ritalin is a highly addictive stimulant drug
and is the pharmaceutical equivalent to cocaine.
It is classified by our government as a psychoactive drug
with cocaine and morphine because it is
highly addictive.
.
Please read Why French Kids Don’t Have ADHD

posted on Jan. 13, 2014
on this website (William’s Weblog).
.
The Physicians’ Desk Reference admits evidence on the carcinogenicity of Ritalin.
Apart from cancer risks,
there is also evidence that Ritalin induces genetic damage
in blood cells of Ritalin-treated children.
.
My dear Parents,
please,
I beg of you now and forever more,
remove your precious child from these harmful
and highly addictive substances.
.

There are many other things you can now do,
rather than use dangerous chemicals
to mask what you assume is a problem.
Your common sense will guide you
down the pathway of salvation.
.
I believe the first is to realize that there is
no problem.
You think you have a hyperactive boy?
No!
He is just a normal, healthy child
who needs to exercise his rapidly developing body.
Personally, I can attest to the fact
that I have never met a hyperactive child,
not in over forty years of providing for the needs of children.
.
By the way,
sports programs put highly active children to good use.
So why not take advantage of all that energy
and give the team a few extra points.
Sports programs are a viable way to give credit and trophies and ribbons and headlines and exercise and a great appetite and new friends and admirers to the so called hyper-active child.
.
Let’s turn what you,
the pill popping Doctor
or the educator
(suffering what I call: L.T. S. – lazy teacher syndrome)
may view as a disadvantage
into what is really a great advantage in life.
On your way to letting your child try out for a spot on a team,
flush all those dumb pills,
together with all stupid advice,
down the toilet.
Flush it twice!
.
Please remember:
there is nothing wrong with your child.
God created each one of us in His Image.
He created us the way He wanted us to be.
We are perfect
in His Sight.

Send your child to school with a T-shirt that says:
.

Don’t Mess With Texas
and DON’T MESS WITH ME!

I shall always be DRUG FREE.

Second,
if he (or possibly she) is driving you crazy,
well,
welcome to the real world.
So open the back door and put him in the back yard,
playing with other kids and a big dog – you know, slightly more active than he is.
Better yet,
show him or her how to use a hammer and nails
and let the kid build a tree house.
Closer to Heaven is where he belongs – up in the tree house.
I have been there
and it is truly wonderful!

And buy some band-aids.
Carpentry is one of those avocations
where mistakes are valuable
and painful.
You never have to tell a child to keep his eye on the nail twice.
The hammer is indeed a powerful teacher,
using natural teaching methodology.
.

Don’t ask me how I know this.
.
And give your child a list of things to do
to help you.
Hey, they owe you a lot!
And, believe it or not,
they will Love to help you.
You may consider paying for their service.
Did money not provide motivation for you to work?
Please do NOT give your child money.
We are not out to create potential political candidates with unrealistic expectations living in an unreal world.
Always let your children EARN what they receive.
.
As Mrs. Anderson is fond of saying,
“Money should be equal to work”.
And while they are playing outside remember,
absence does indeed make the heart grow fonder.
Too much togetherness means –
not everyone will return from a two year trip to Mars.
Someone will get booted out on the way back!

Third.
Provide environments that are flexible
and surround your normally active
(not hyper active – it does not really exist)
child with real and realistic people,
you know, adults, that understand normal child development
and are citizens of the real world
(some are not).
Remove your child from the presence of others who are intolerant
– they are probably on something themselves.

Please do not permit corporate-driven and financially incentivized entities, or just plain lazy teachers,
to turn your son or daughter into a nearly comatose and endangered member of our species,
with drugs they will not themselves take.
Your child is not an experimental lab rat.

Remember,
you can lose the precious personality of the child you adore.
These drugs will do that.
I have witnessed it.
Or worse, you can lose your child.
Now,
let’s turn to something positive we can do.

My dear friends,
we have suffered enough. 

Our ignorance,
coupled with the intolerable greed and arrogance
of corporate America,
has led us down a broad avenue
of disease and malnutrition.
.
Yes, we have had enough.
.

My Dear Friends,
our children deserve better.
You deserve better.
.

And the Internet, as laced as it is with pitfalls and danger,
is also a pathway to freedom.
It is a tool,  just a tool, as are many other technologies.
And in the right hands,
your hands,
it can lead you to a better quality of Life
and a longer Life for you and your children.
The use of it requires thoughtfulness
and a guiding hand,
which happens to be
YOUR hand.
.
Goodnight.
.
Please allow me to share a beautiful story
of hope and salvation with you.
It comes From NaturalNews.
This article has enormous implications for prevention and cure.
It directly relates to you and your child.
Please take time and read it and contemplate its findings.
It provides yet
another simple solution.

Fish Oil saves life of boy with brain injury

by P. F. Louis
.
High school student Bobby Ghassemi was taken out of his crashed vehicle and airlifted to a nearby Virginia hospital more dead than alive with severe brain trauma.
He was so much more dead than alive
that the physician who eventually advised the Ghassemi family
on using fish oil, Dr. Michael Lewis said,
For all intents and purposes,
he was dead
on the scene.
I’m looking at the reports, and they report
a Glasgow Coma Score of three.
A brick or piece of wood has a Glascow Coma Score of three.
It’s dead.
.
“Bobby was placed in intensive care in a coma with all the apparatus possible to keep him a breath from death.
His brain was flooded with blood and a hole had to be put into his skull to relieve some of the pressure.
The hospital’s physicians commented that his brain injury was so bad,
it was a wonder that he was alive enough to be in a coma.
They told Bobby’s father and mother it was doubtful he’d be more than a vegetable if he came out of the coma.
He’d be unable to speak or recognize his family.

Time for a drastic intervention.

After 10 days, Bobby was still comatose.
His dad, Peter, felt more should be done
than maintaining stability in a coma.
So he started asking around to old Army buddies
and was led to Army colonel Dr. Micheal Lewis
who recommended fish oil
based on an early episode of a West Virginia coal miner
who barely survived a mining accident
with severe brain damage.
His condition had resembled Bobby’s.

The 26-year-old miner, Randall McCloy,
was “on death’s doorstep,”
according to Randall’s hospital neurosurgeon, Dr. Julian Bailes.
He and the other doctors then decided to forgo the normal wait
and see after Randall was stabilized in intensive care.

They decided to take a radical course from normal AMA protocol and put Randall into hyperbaric therapy to increase oxygen to his brain while administering fish oil through Randall’s feeding tube.
After a brain injury, even as some recovery is noticed,
the brain cells continue to die from progressive inflammation.

Dr. Bailes knew that the brain needs to feed on omega-3 fatty acids to heal inflammation as well as stimulate brain and nervous system cell growth. After discussing Randall’s condition with fish oil omega-3 experts, Dr. Bailes determined that 20 grams fed through Randall’s feeding tube daily might bring him around.

20 grams is 10 times more than what an uninjured person would supplement with fish oil.
.

Dr. Lewis explained the Dr. Bailes intervention
with Randall to Bobby’s dad,
who thought the whole thing strange.
But he realized that three months after the mining accident,
Randall McCloy
left the hospital walking and talking.

At first, the hospital staff resisted Peter’s urging
to try the fish oil therapy on his son Bobby.
Their viewpoint was that the McCloy incident was just one anecdotal episode and not worth pursuing, perhaps even risky. But Peter persisted strongly and they finally yielded.

Today, at age 20,
Bobby smiles as he recalls his high school graduation
where he took off his cap and waved it to the cheering students.
His dramatic recovery has left him with some weakness on the left side of his body and difficulty walking,
but he’s back.

Yet,
even after two successful applications of omega-3 fish oil for extremely brain damaged victims who recovered rapidly after both were written off from any significant recovery, the medical establishment only equivocates and considers the possibility of someday exploring omega-3 fish oil “scientifically” for brain traumas.

Sources for this article include: http://www.cnn.com

More news on fish oil

* In a Harvard Study: Fish Oil Cuts Risk of Lou Gehrig’s: Tuesday, 15 Jul 2014 – Read this  at http://www.newsmaxhealth.com/Health-News/Lou-Gehrigs-ALS-fish-oil-neurodegenerative/2014/07/15/id/582772#ixzz3A1Wpgq7b

Alert: What Is Your Risk for a Heart Attack? Find Out Now

A man went out for a walk.
He came to a river and saw a woman on the opposite bank.
“Yoo-hoo,” he shouted, “how can I get to the other side?”
The woman looked up the river then down the river
then shouted back,
“You’re already on the other side.”

Life and truth
is often a matter of perspective and viewpoint.

Lyrics/songs texts/paintings/articles
are property and copyright of their owners
and provided for educational purposes.

Copyright Disclaimer – Section 107 – Copyright Act 1976,
allowance is made for “fair use”
for purposes such as criticism, comment,
news reporting, teaching, scholarship,and research.
Fair use is permitted by copyright statute.

Non-profit, educational or personal use
tips the balance in favor of “fair use”.

© Copyright 1995-2019
The Anderson Private School.

The Time Of True Thanksgiving / Dangers of Ritalin

Ask "RJ" if he is happy with his Christmas present.

Ask “R.J.” if he is happy with his Christmas present.

For me,
Christmas is the time
Of true Thanksgiving.
Expressing our gratitude
To our Creator,
And to each other,
For our bountiful Blessings
Is difficult and rewarding.

Ian looks for RJ's gift.

Ian looks for R.J.’s gifts.

 We can never say Enough
To reflect our abiding Love
For each other,
And for the everlasting Love
Of our Father in Heaven Above.


But let us,
By the Grace of God,

Continue to try.

Allow me to share with you

The Christmas poem from the past
That is the most viewed.

OK. Here it is!

I dedicated it in
1994
,
When our children
Were very young.

I was not aware
Of the Eternal Love

Of God,
Until I looked
Into

Their Loving Eyes.

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RJ with Ian

Thank you! (Ian also gave his buddy a birthday present – a new leash on life.)

Please accept
Our best wishes
To you and your family.
We pray that in the new year
You shall have
All the joy
Your heart can contain,
And that you share the precious
Love of God
With so many in need.

Merry Christmas
from

Bill, LeVonna,
Annie & Alexander
Anderson

There is only one happiness in Life,
To Love and be Loved.
– George Sand

Thank you, Philippe, for our very French desserts at LaMadeline.

Thank you, Philippe, for our very French desserts from la Madeleine.

Island of Dreams
   © 2014 William C. Anderson

From the impossibility of coming
From nothing, it seems
We have risen to a vision
Of unbelievably beautiful dreams.

Spun from the Fabric
Of God’s Eternal Love,
Filled with His Very Own Breath,
Shaped by Desire from Above.

The Tapestry of what is
So radiantly beautiful to see,
Is the Glory of God’s Love,
Woven into you and me.

Now we dwell in the Shadow
Of Everlasting Grace,
And feel the warmth of His Sun,
Like the Breath of Life upon your face.

But when we are through being born,
When this life surrenders us to Love,
One Light shall pierce the darkest night,
A Light from Heaven Above.

And no time will there be for silence.
Someone sings for you and for me,
Sounds of Pure Joy that resonate
In Songs of Love & cherished memory.

And when we drift
So very, very far from shore,
And chisel stones to throw at memory,
By countless acts of loving and forgiving,
We skip them over sparkling waters to be.

Deftly they touch the surface of the past,
Pulsating like the beat of a new born heart,
As God’s Love is Birth Infinity,
Ever here to begin again, again to start.

Guided by such Love given you and me,
We shall not lie afraid in the dark,
For we are held in the
Warm Embrace of God,
And alive in each other’s heart.

God fills the midnight of the Soul,
And in the endlessness of time it seems,
We will, one day, meet again,
On His beautiful Island of Dreams.

—   —   —

“Love also the trees, the plants,
the water that runs though the meadow
and on to the sea without knowing where it goes;
love the mountain, the desert, the forest,
the immense sky, full of light or full of clouds;
because all these exceed man
and reveal the Eternal to you.”
~ Savitri Devi 

After lunch entertainment

After lunch entertainment

Dangers of Ritalin
from: HealthCentral.com

My friends, studies point to the possibility that Ritalin can uncover the presence of involuntary tics or even Tourette’s syndrome.

An FDA study found an increase of liver cancer in rats treated with Ritalin. Methylphenidate  (Ritaiin) also possesses structural and pharmacological similarities to cocaine. Ritalin, manufactured by Ciba-Geigy, is a stimulant and its effects are similar to the effects of other stimulants including amphetamine, methamphetamine, and cocaine.

Treatment emergent psychosis can occur during long-term so-called therapy with methylphenidate; regular psychiatric monitoring of people who are taking methylphenidate for adverse effects such as psychotic symptoms has been recommended.

Importantly people with ADHD have an increased risk of substance abuse.

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Hidden Facts about Ritalin

In 1986, The International Journal of the Addictions published a very important literature review by Richard Scarnati. It was called “An Outline of Hazardous Side Effects of Ritalin (Methylphenidate)” [v.21(7), pp. 837-841].

Scarnati listed a large number of adverse affects of Ritalin and cited published journal articles which reported each of these symptoms.

• Paranoid delusions
• Paranoid psychosis
• Hypomanic and manic symptoms, amphetamine-like psychosis
• Activation of psychotic symptoms
• Toxic psychosis
• Visual hallucinations
• Auditory hallucinations
• Can surpass LSD in producing bizarre experiences
• Effects pathological thought processes
• Extreme withdrawal
Terrified affect
Screaming
Aggressiveness
Insomnia

Since Ritalin is considered an amphetamine-type drug, expect amphetamine-like effects:

• Psychic dependence
• High-abuse potential DEA Schedule II Drug
Decreased REM sleep
• When used with antidepressants one may see dangerous reactions including hypertension, seizures and hypothermia
Convulsions
Brain damage may be seen with amphetamine abuse.

Unbelievably, many parents around the country have discovered that Ritalin has become a condition for their children continuing in school. There are even reports, by parents, of threats from social agencies: “If you don’t allow us to prescribe Ritalin for your ADHD child, we may decide that you are an unfit parent. We may decide to take your child away.”

This mind-boggling state of affairs is fueled by teachers, principals, and school counselors, none of whom have medical training. Yet even if they did…

The very existence of the “illnesses” for which Ritalin would be prescribed is unproven. It is merely assumed.

In commenting on Dr. Lawrence Diller’s book, Running on Ritalin, Dr. William Carey, Director of Behavioral Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, has written, “Dr. Diller has correctly described… the disturbing trend of blaming children’s social, behavioral, and academic performance problems entirely on an unproven brain deficit…”

On November 16-18, 1998, the National Institute of Mental Health held the prestigious “NIH Consensus Development Conference on Diagnosis and Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder [ADHD].”

The conference was explicitly aimed at ending all debate about the diagnoses of ADD, ADHD, and about the prescription of Ritalin. It was hoped that at the highest levels of medical research and bureaucracy, a clear position would be taken: this is what ADHD is, this is where it comes from, and these are the drugs it should be treated with.

That didn’t happen, amazingly. Instead, the official panel responsible for drawing conclusions from the conference threw cold water on the whole attempt to reach a comfortable consensus.

Panel member Mark Vonnegut, a Massachusetts pediatrician, said, “The diagnosis [of ADHD] is a mess.”

The quite conventional and orthodox panel essentially said it was not sure ADHD was even a valid diagnosis. In other words, it virtually admitted that ADD and ADHD might be nothing more than attempts to categorize certain children’s behaviors—with no organic cause, no clear-cut biological basis, no provable reason for even using the ADD or ADHD labels.

The panel found “no data to indicate that ADHD is due to a brain malfunction [which malfunction had been the whole psychiatric assumption].”

This panel found that Ritalin has not been shown to have long-term benefits. In fact, the panel stated that Ritalin has resulted in little improvement on academic achievement or social skills.”

Ritalin can cause high blood pressure, severe insomnia, psychotic symptoms (like seeing things or visual hallucinations) and heart problems. see: ritalinsideeffects.net

The FDA has taken an interest in the University of Texas’ research regarding Ritalin and cancer. The research is alarming, but premature to be conclusive. In this surprising study researchers have discovered that every child they tested who was taking Ritalin (methylphenidate) developed chromosomal aberrations that have been associated with an increased risk of cancer (El-Zein, 2005).

Could Ritalin cause Prostate cancer – eHealthMe.com. Prostate cancer is found among people who take Ritalin.

The recent finding that Ritalin can cause cancer in some animals was not taken seriously. Scientific studies on carcinogenicity were finally released in June 1993 revealing that feeding mice Ritalin, induced liver tumors including very rare and highly malignant cancers. These results were found at dosage levels close to those routinely prescribed for children.

Animal tests are very good predictors of human health effects. In fact, the International Agency for Research on Cancer suggests that if a chemical is proven to cause cancer in animals, it should be treated as if it were cancer-causing in humans as well.

More from HealthCentral.com (Amanda Gardner):

The concerns about the drug, a stimulant that has been used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) for decades, surfaced during a FDA pediatrics advisory committee meeting. The findings, by researchers from the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas, showed damage to the chromosomes of all of the 12 children who had taken Ritalin for three months.

Concerns about Ritalin’s cancer risk are more important in view of the millions of children treated yearly with the drug and the increasing happenings of childhood cancer, by some 35% over the last thirty years. My friend, are you awake yet?

The advisory committee had been called to discuss yet another health issue surrounding the class of ADHD medications known as methylphenidates, to which Ritalin belongs: Some psychiatric side effects have been reported among children using Concerta, Ritalin and other versions of these drugs.

“We’re not telling people to all go off their medication because you don’t know what this means,” said Melissa L. Bondy, co-author of the study, which first appeared in the online issue Cancer Letters. “You can’t base changing practice on 12 patients. Look how many millions of kids are on this. Do you want to tell all the mothers and fathers to take their kids off of the drugs?”

Well, YES! I would STRONGLY recommend that you stop giving your beloved and biologically fragile children substances that we really do not know much about. Where are the LONG term studies? Oh, have you heard – your children are the guinea pigs in an ongoing long term study. Did you not realize that? Were you not aware? I wonder why you were not aware.

The Physicians Desk Reference of Drug Side Effects notes that, regarding the pharmacology of Ritalin: “The mode of action in man is not completely understood.” And this is what you’re giving your child! The pharmaceutical manufacturers admit that they don’t even know how it works. They’re just experimentingon your child.

Scientists from the FDA, the NIH and the Environmental Protection Agency traveled to Texas to examine the study methods used by the researchers.

“We’re hoping that they’ll see this as a major public health issue, and as something that needs to be done,” Bondy added.

Meanwhile, the question of labeling changes because of possible psychiatric effects of Ritalin and other methylphenidates have been put on hold after the advisory committee told FDA officials that it was hesitant to recommend such changes.

For more information see: May Cause Death BUT – Safe? / Another Simple Solution – Posted on August 13, 2014 on William’s Weblog.

This is all so incomprehensible to me. Type “Ritalin and Cancer” into a search engine. Be prepared to pass out. And when you get back up off of the floor, let me hear from you.

My friends, your child does not need ANY chemical substance.

What does your child need? – Sunshine, smiles, hugs, organic food, pure water, more hugs, the freedom to be, more smiles, and they desperately need to hear, “I Love You”, about a thousand times each day. Say it so many times that, when you are gone, they will still hear it.

In the soft, still quiet of their night, they will need to hear your voice. They will need to know just how much you loved them. They will come to feel that your love still lives in their heart. And, they will realize that the Love of God is truly everlasting.

“Philosophy will clip an Angel’s wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine-
Unweave a rainbow.
                 –
John Keats

My deeply Loved "Rosie"

My deeply Loved “Rosie”. Next week I shall share the story of my love for her and of her salvation from an early death from Cancer. My prayer is that it may be beneficial to you.

 

Metformin originates from compounds derived from the French lilac (Galega officinalis). The plant has been used since the Middle Ages to relieve the symptoms of diabetes.

May Cause Death BUT – Safe? / Another Simple Solution

Has anyone seen my laundry basket?

Has anyone seen my laundry basket?

“For the greater individual
is the one who is the servant of all.
And to conquer self is greater than taking many cities.
For, here ye may find humbleness
as against that which cries oft for expression,
and the feeling of not being appreciated.
Express it more in the greater amount of love
upon those who may be aided through thy effort.
For, remember, man looks upon the things of the day
but God looks upon the heart
.”
–  Edgar Cayce

From the National Briefs of the Baltimore Sun – The makers of Ritalin, Adderall, Stratera and other drugs that treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder were advised by the government to give patients and parents an additional warning that those medicines can cause SERIOUS psychiatric and heart problems, including SUDDEN DEATH.

Now, for the sadly humorous part. After this stern and serious warning comes this from OUR government employee:
Dr. Tom Laughren, Director of psychiatry products for the F. D. A., who emphasized that the move was precautionary and should not FRIGHTEN patients from taking the drugs, which he said are SAFE!
You simply cannot make this stuff up.
Of course this warning is not inclusive enough. Ritalin is a highly addictive stimulant drug and is the pharmaceutical equivalent to cocaine. It is classified by our government as a psychoactive drug with cocaine and morphine because it is highly addictive.

Please read Why French Kids Don’t Have ADHD posted on Jan. 13, 2014 on this website (William’s Weblog).

The Physicians’ Desk Reference admits evidence on the carcinogenicity of Ritalin. Apart from cancer risks, there is also evidence that Ritalin induces genetic damage in blood cells of Ritalin-treated children.

My dear Parents, please, I beg of you now and forever more, remove your precious child from these harmful and highly addictive substances. There are many other things you can now do, rather than use dangerous chemicals to mask what you assume is a problem. Your common sense will guide you down the pathway of salvation.

I believe the first is to realize that there is no problem. You think you have a hyperactive boy? No. He is just a normal, healthy child who needs to exercise his rapidly developing body. Personally, I can attest to the fact that I have never met a hyperactive child, not in over forty years of providing for the needs of children.

By the way, sports programs put highly active children to good use. So why not take advantage of all that energy and give the team a few extra points. Sports programs are a viable way to give credit and trophies and ribbons and headlines and exercise and a great appetite and new friends and admirers to the so called hyper-active child. Let’s turn what you, the pill popping Doctor or the educator (suffering what I call: L. T. S. – lazy teacher syndrome) may view as a disadvantage into what is really a great advantage in life. On your way to letting your child try out for a spot on a team, flush all those dumb pills together with all stupid advice down the toilet. Flush it twice!

Please remember: there is nothing wrong with your child. God created each one of us in His Image. He created us the way He wanted us to be. We are perfect in His Sight.

Send your child to school with a T-shirt that says: Don’t Mess With Texas and DON’T MESS WITH ME! I shall always be DRUG FREE.

Second, if he (or possibly she) is driving you crazy, welcome to the real world. So open the back door and put him in the back yard, playing with other kids and a big dog – you know, slightly more active than he is. Better yet, show him or her how to use a hammer and nails and let the kid build a tree house. Closer to Heaven is where he belongs – up in the tree house. And buy some band-aids. Carpentry is one of those avocations where mistakes are valuable and painful. You never have to tell a child to keep his eye on the nail twice. The hammer is indeed a powerful teacher using natural teaching methodology. Don’t ask me how I know this.

And give your child a list of things to do to help you. Hey, they owe you a lot! And, believe it or not, they will love to help you. You may consider paying for their service. Did money not provide motivation for you to work? Please do NOT give your child money. We are not out to create potential political candidates with unrealistic expectations living in an unreal world. Always let your children EARN what they receive. As Mrs. Anderson is fond of saying, “Money should be equal to work”. And while they are playing outside remember, absence does indeed make the heart grow fonder. Too much togetherness means – not everyone will return from a two year trip to Mars. Someone will get booted out on the way back!

Third. Provide environments that are flexible and surround your normally active (not hyper – it does not really exist) child with people, you know, adults, that understand normal child development and are citizens of the real world (some are not). Remove your child from the presence of others who are intolerant – they are probably on something themselves.

Please do not permit corporate-driven and financially incentivized entities, or just plain lazy teachers, to turn your son or daughter into a nearly comatose and endangered member of our species, with drugs they will not themselves take. Your child is not an experimental lab rat.

Remember, you can lose the precious personality of the child you adore. These drugs will do that. I have witnessed it. Or worse, you can lose your child. Now, let’s turn to something positive we can do.

My dear friends, we have suffered enough
Our ignorance, coupled with the intolerable greed and arrogance of corporate America, has led us down a broad avenue of disease and malnutrition. Yes, we have had enough. Friends, our children deserve better. You deserve better. And the Internet, as laced as it is with pitfalls and danger, is also a pathway to freedom. It is a tool, just a tool, as are many other technologies. And in the right hands, your hands, it can lead you to a better quality of life and longer life for you and your children.
The use of it requires thoughtfulness and a guiding hand, which happens to be your hand. Please allow me to share a beautiful story of hope and salvation with you. It comes From NaturalNews. This article has enormous implications for prevention and cure. It directly relates to you and your child. Please take time and read it and contemplate its findings. It provides yet another simple solution.

Fish Oil saves life of boy with brain injury

Thursday, October 25, 2012 by P. F. Louis
High school student Bobby Ghassemi was taken out of his crashed vehicle and airlifted to a nearby Virginia hospital more dead than alive with severe brain trauma.He was so much more dead than alive that the physician who eventually advised the Ghassemi family on using fish oil, Dr. Michael Lewis said, “For all intents and purposes, he was dead on the scene.I’m looking at the reports, and they report a Glasgow Coma Score of three. A brick or piece of wood has a Glascow Coma Score of three. It’s dead. “Bobby was placed in intensive care in a coma with all the apparatus possible to keep him a breath from death. His brain was flooded with blood and a hole had to be put into his skull to relieve some of the pressure.The hospital’s physicians commented that his brain injury was so bad, it was a wonder that he was alive enough to be in a coma. They told Bobby’s father and mother it was doubtful he’d be more than a vegetable if he came out of the coma. He’d be unable to speak or recognize his family.

Time for a drastic intervention

After 10 days, Bobby was still comatose. His dad, Peter, felt more should be done than maintaining stability in a coma. So he started asking around to old Army buddies and was led to Army colonel Dr. Micheal Lewis who recommended fish oil based on an early episode of a West Virginia coal miner who barely survived a mining accident with severe brain damage. His condition had resembled Bobby’s.

The 26-year-old miner, Randall McCloy, was “on death’s doorstep,” according to Randall’s hospital neurosurgeon, Dr. Julian Bailes. He and the other doctors then decided to forgo the normal wait and see after Randall was stabilized in intensive care.

They decided to take a radical course from normal AMA protocol and put Randall into hyperbaric therapy to increase oxygen to his brain while administering fish oil through Randall’s feeding tube. After a brain injury, even as some recovery is noticed, the brain cells continue dieing from progressive inflammation.

Dr. Bailes knew that the brain needs to feed on omega-3 fatty acids to heal inflammation as well as stimulate brain and nervous system cell growth. After discussing Randall’s condition with fish oil omega-3 experts, Dr. Bailes determined that 20 grams fed through Randall’s feeding tube daily might bring him around.

20 grams is 10 times more than what an uninjured person would supplement with fish oil. Dr. Lewis explained the Dr. Bailes intervention with Randall to Bobby’s dad, who thought the whole thing strange. But he realized that three months after the mining accident, Randall McCloy left the hospital walking and talking.

At first, the hospital staff resisted Peter’s urging to try the fish oil therapy on his son Bobby. Their viewpoint was that the McCloy incident was just one anecdotal episode and not worth pursuing, perhaps even risky. But Peter persisted strongly and they finally yielded.

Today, at age 20, Bobby smiles as he recalls his high school graduation where he took off his cap and waved it to the cheering students. His dramatic recovery has left him with some weakness on the left side of his body and difficulty walking, but he’s back.

Yet, even after two successful applications of omega-3 fish oil for extremely brain damaged victims who recovered rapidly after both were written off from any significant recovery, the medical establishment only equivocates and considers the possibility of someday exploring omega-3 fish oil “scientifically” for brain traumas.

Sources for this article include: http://www.cnn.com

More news on fish oil
* In a Harvard Study: Fish Oil Cuts Risk of Lou Gehrig’s: Tuesday, 15 Jul 2014 – Read this  at http://www.newsmaxhealth.com/Health-News/Lou-Gehrigs-ALS-fish-oil-neurodegenerative/2014/07/15/id/582772#ixzz3A1Wpgq7b

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A man went out for a walk.

He came to a river and saw a woman on the opposite bank.
“Yoo-hoo,” he shouted, “how can I get to the other side?”
The woman looked up the river then down the river
then shouted back,
“You’re already on the other side.”
Life and truth is often a matter of perspective and viewpoint.

Why French Kids Don’t Have ADHD / ROLLERLAND WEST

Now, I think Dr. A is this old!

Now, I think Dr. A is this old!

French parents believe that hearing the word “no”
rescues children from the
“tyranny of their own desires.”

The following information is intended to supplement, not substitute for, the expertise and judgment of your physician, pharmacist or healthcare professional.

(This information is from, “French children don’t need medications        to control their behavior”. Published on March 8, 2012                             by Marilyn Wedge, Ph.D. in Suffer the Children. click here to read full article)

In the United States, at least 9% of school-aged children have been diagnosed with ADHD / ADD, and are taking pharmaceutical medications. But in France, the percentage of kids medicated for ADHD is less than one half of one percent (.5%). Why has the epidemic of ADHD / ADD in the United States almost completely passed over children in France?

In the United States, psychiatrists consider ADHD to be a biological disorder with the preferred treatment also biological–psycho stimulant medications such as Ritalin and Adderall.

Michael and Bailey enjoyed their time at the Monnig Meteorite Gallery

Michael and Bailey enjoyed their time at the Monnig Meteorite Gallery at T. C. U.

French child psychiatrists, on the other hand, view ADHD as a medical condition that has psycho-social and situational causes. Instead of treating children’s focusing and behavioral problems with drugs, French doctors prefer to look for the underlying issue that is causing the child distress—not in the child’s brain but in the child’s social context. They then choose to treat the underlying social context problem with psychotherapy or family counseling. This is a very different way of seeing things from the American tendency to attribute all symptoms to a biological dysfunction such as a chemical imbalance in the child’s brain.

French child psychiatrists don’t use the same system of classification of childhood emotional problems as American psychiatrists. They do not use the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or DSM. According to Sociologist Manuel Vallee, the French Federation of Psychiatry developed an alternative classification system. The focus of this system (CFTMEA) is on identifying and addressing the underlying psychosocial causes of children’s symptoms, not on finding the best pharmacological bandaids with which to mask symptoms.

Information is sometimes found in strange places

Information is sometimes found in strange places

To the extent that French clinicians are successful at finding and repairing what has gone awry in the child’s social context, fewer children qualify for the ADHD diagnosis. Moreover, the definition of ADHD is not as broad as in the American system, which, in my view, tends to “pathologize” much of what is normal childhood behavior. The DSM specifically does not consider underlying causes. It thus leads clinicians to give the ADHD diagnosis to a much larger number of symptomatic children, while also encouraging them to treat those children with pharmaceuticals.

The French holistic, psychosocial approach also allows for considering nutritional causes for ADHD symptoms – specifically the fact that the behavior of some children is worsened after eating foods with artificial colors, certain preservatives, and/or allergens. Clinicians who work with troubled children in this country—not to mention parents of many ADHD kids—are well aware that dietary interventions can sometimes help a child’s problem. In the United States, the strict focus on pharmaceutical treatment of ADHD, however, encourages clinicians to ignore the influence of dietary factors on children’s behavior.

And then, of course, there are the vastly different philosophies of child-rearing in the United States and France. These divergent philosophies could account for why French children are generally better-behaved than their American counterparts. Pamela Druckerman highlights the divergent parenting styles in her recent book, “Bringing up Bébé”. I believe her insights are relevant to a discussion of why French children are not diagnosed with ADHD in anything like the numbers we are seeing in the United States.

Kylie enjoys having her puppy with her.

Kylie enjoys having her puppy with her.

From the time their children are born, French parents provide them with a firm cadre—the word means “frame” or “structure.” Children are not allowed, for example, to snack whenever they want. Mealtimes are at four specific times of the day. French children learn to wait patiently for meals, rather than eating snack foods whenever they feel like it. French babies, too, are expected to conform to limits set by parents and not by their crying selves. French parents let their babies “cry it out” if they are not sleeping through the night at the age of four months.

French parents, Druckerman observes, love their children just as much as American parents. They give them piano lessons, take them to sports practice, and encourage them to make the most of their talents. But French parents have a different philosophy of discipline. Consistently enforced limits, in the French view, make children feel safe and secure. Clear limits, they believe, actually make a child feel happier and safer—something that is congruent with my own experience as both a therapist and a parent. Finally, French parents believe that hearing the word “no” rescues children from the “tyranny of their own desires.”

As a therapist who works with children, it makes perfect sense to me that French children don’t need medications to control their behavior because they learn self-control early in their lives. The children grow up in families in which the rules are well-understood, and a clear family hierarchy is firmly in place. In French families parents are firmly in charge of their kids – instead of the American family style, in which the situation is all too often vice versa.

Marilyn Wedge is the author of “Pills Are Not for Preschoolers: A Drug-Free Approach for Troubled Kids”. I highly recommend this publication.

Website:MarilynWedgephd.com. Twitter: marilyn Wedge

QUOTE - Monnig Meteorite Gallery 045Forty years after the drug was first marketed, carcinogenicity (cancer) tests were conducted by the National Toxicology Program, the results of which were published in 1995. Adult mice were fed Ritalin over a two-year period at dosages close to those prescribed to children. The mice developed a statistically significant incidence of liver abnormalities and tumors, including highly aggressive rare cancers known as hepatoblastomas.

The Physicians’ Desk Reference admits evidence on the carcinogenicity of Ritalin.

Apart from cancer risks, there is also suggestive evidence that Ritalin induces genetic damage in blood cells of Ritalin-treated children.

Methylphenidate (Ritalin, Ritalin SR, Ritalin LA, Concerta, Methylin, Methylin ER, Metadate CD, Metadate ER) prescribed for the treatment of ADHD and Narcolepsy), is classified by our government as a psychoactive drug with cocaine and morphine because it is highly addictive.

The long term effects of methylphenidate on the developing brain are

Alden enjoys reading about meteorites.

Alden enjoys reading                about meteorites.

unknown. Methylphenidate is derived from amphetamines, a powerful class of stimulant drugs, and is known on the street as rids, pineapple, uppers, jif, vitamin R and R-ball. Whatever its name, methylphenidate (Ritalin,etc.) is the pharmaceutical equivalent to cocaine.

Even under a physician’s care, methylphenidate addiction can occur because this medication is a highly addictive stimulant drug that works by increasing the dopamine levels in your brain. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), dependency can occur whether the medication is taken under a physician’s supervision or when it is taken recreationally, because your body becomes tolerant to the drug and higher dosages are required to achieve the same high.

In the United States, methylphenidate is classified by the Drug Enforcement Agency as a Schedule II controlled substance with a high potential for abuse. This classification is because of methylphenidate’s high addictive potential. When crushed and snorted, methylphenidate can have the same effects as cocaine in terms of the high it produces. This euphoria is highly addictive.

Methylphenidate addiction treatment is necessary when patients who have taken this medication to treat ADHD, suddenly develop seizures or hypertension. Methylphenidate addiction treatment must begin with detoxification. Methylphenidate detox is the process in which the patient stops using the drug abruptly, and as a result withdrawal symptoms occur. Because methylphenidate is often taken for long periods of time, the likelihood of physical or psychological dependence is high.

Stimulants like methylphenidate can also increase blood pressure, body temperature and heart rate to dangerous levels, and long term repeated use can further lead to acts of hostility and feelings of paranoia. At higher doses, methylphenidate can cause cardiovascular problems such as strokes.

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Touching is believing!

Texas researchers have found that after just three months, every one of a dozen children treated for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with the drug methylphenidate experienced a threefold increase in levels of chromosome abnormalities—occurrences associated with increased risks of cancer and other adverse health effects. Here is but one of the others:

Chromosome Abnormalities Raise Risk for Autism. Autism is growing at epidemic proportions, and so is the money being dedicated to genetic studies like this. According to one study, published Jan. 9 in the online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, a section of chromosome 16 is deleted or duplicated in about 1 percent of people with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). About 15 percent of autism cases have known genetic causes. This latest paper follows closely on the heels of another study, which was published in the Dec. 21 online issue of Human Molecular Genetics, that found the exact same deletion was significantly associated with autism.

Researchers at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) reported their detection of the chromosome abnormalities in the journal Cancer Letters.

The researchers say that, to their knowledge, this is the first study addressing the potential chromosome-breaking effects associated with treatment of children with methylphenidate, the generic name for a group of drugs that includes Ritalin, Concerta, Metadate CD and others.

Most of the abnormalities found in the studied blood cells consisted of chromosome breaks “and a higher frequency of aberrations is reported to be associated with an increased risk of cancer down the line,” said lead author Randa A. El-Zein, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of epidemiology at M.D. Anderson, who performed the blood studies

Concerns on Ritalin’s cancer risk are more acute in view of the millions of children treated annually with the drug and the escalating incidence of childhood cancer, by some 35% over the last few decades, quite apart from delayed risks of cancer in adult life. These risks are compounded by the availability of alternative safe and effective procedures, notably behavior modification and biofeedback.

There is no justification for prescribing Ritalin, even by highly qualified pediatricians and psychiatrists, unless parents have been explicitly informed of the drug’s cancer risks. Otherwise, prescribing Ritalin constitutes unarguable medical malpractice. This statement is from Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., emeritus Professor Environmental Medicine, University of Illinois School of Public Health, Chicago, and Chairman, Cancer Prevention Coalition.

My gratitude to Mr. Wes Oliver, Vice President of Robert W. Baird & Co.
Private Wealth Management, for bringing this
valuable information
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               “There is no present or future, only the past,                 happening over and over again, now.
– EUGENE O’NEILL, A Moon for the Misbegotten

Our docent, Nona Batiste, was wonderful

Our docent, Nona Batiste, was wonderful

Due to popular demand and pleading looks from Mary Alice, coupled with a general feeling of excitement, we will meet at 10:00 a.m. at ROLLERLAND WEST, located at 7325 Calmont Avenue –Telephone: 817-244-8290. At approximately 11:15 a.m. will we will travel to McKinley’s Fine Bakery & Café, 1616 South University Drive, (817) 332-3242 to enjoy lunch. Following lunch we will travel to the Barnes and Noble Book Store one block south of the Hulen Shopping Center, 4801 Overton Ridge Blvd. Suite 100, Fort Worth – Telephone Number: (817) 346-2368.

Pickup will be at 2:30 p.m. at the Bookstore.

Emergency Telephone Number: 682-777-1908


If you arrive late, we shall have departed with your child(ren) and will drop them off at Good Will or Bad Will, depending upon their behavior, or return to school. Please call and let us know if you will be late and if you want them back.

Students are NOT to leave Rollerland, the restaurant or bookstore without the approval of Dr. or Mrs. Anderson.

FINANCIAL: Rollerskating $10.00 (Please pay Dr. A.) and lunch. Refreshments available: Yes! You may wish to purchase a book.

Uniform pants with a belt & red monogrammed school shirts are required.

PARENTS / FRIENDS / RELATIVES are invited to participate on our trips.

         IMPORTANT DATES
Jan. 24                              Fort Worth Stock Show
Jan. 20 (Mon.)                 Dr. M. L. King Holiday
Feb. 1                                Tuition Deposit Due for 2014-15
Feb. 17 (Mon.)                President’s Day Holiday
Mar. 10-14                       Spring Break Holidays                        

A. n . d . e . r . s . o . n
Where precocious children are nurtured, appreciated & from time to time,        rollerskate!