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Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 10:47 pm
Yeah, for sure behavioural disorders like ADHD are overdiagnosed, particularly in children and especially if theres a profitable 'quick-fix' prescription drug that be sold to impatient parents. However, I don't think it takes a genius to figure out that injesting all kinds of artificial non-natural substances will have adverse affect on our physiology.
The reason the word 'may' is used is because it is often very difficult to study the long-term effects of something that seems benign in small doses. Plus, there is often a genetic component as well, ie the chemicals may trigger ADHD in those who were predisposed to developing ADHD because they lacked such-and-such a gene and/or had this-and-that gene. But for the chemical, their odds of developing ADHD may have been much slimmer but may have developed anyway.
Second, there are environmental considerations. In these times, we are all swimming 24-7 in our own unique chemical soup, made up of trace chemicals from the particlar household and beauty items we use, the particular kind pollutants in the air and water where we live, the type of ocntainers we drink out of, the kinds of foods we eat and the particular clothes we wear. For the past 60 years or so, all kinds of man-made chemicals have been litterally leaching into our bodies through every orifice and pore from from birth to death and each of us has our own unique concotion that interacts with our own unique biology in different ways, so its hard for researchers to see an overall pattern and then attribute it to one particular source.
We do know that indicence of cancer, diabetes, food allergies, asthma, male infertility, among many others, have been skyrocketing across the board for decades and that doesn't happen for no reason.
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