From addsteve at cox.net Sun Jan 1 22:23:49 2006 From: addsteve at cox.net (Steve Plog ADhD) Date: Sun Jan 1 22:29:51 2006 Subject: [Coordinator] Med Students take stand against Big Pharma! Message-ID: <7.0.0.15.2.20060101202115.02163de8@cox.net> American Medical Student Association http://www.amsa.org/prof/pharmfree.cfm AMSA's PharmFree Campaign started in 2002 in collaboration with No Free Lunch. This year, we are launching the Counterdetailing Initiative to take PharmFree to the next level. AMSA believes it is essential to foster honesty, integrity, humility and accountability in undergraduate medical education and beyond. Without these qualities, both the credibility of the medical community and public trust erode. The next logical question is: How can we encourage students to develop these attributes throughout their medical training? Our answer is simple: National PharmFree Day 2005 PharmFree because the practice of pharmaceutical gifting to students and physicians increases the costs of health care for patients and does not primarily serve patient interests. PharmFree because medical students want to be honest with future patients about why a particular medication was prescribed without compromising personal and professional integrity. PharmFree because medical students want to treat future patients using modalities supported by the best existing clinical evidence, not carefully packaged advertising. Patients rightly expect and deserve this from the medical community. Vision: AMSA will lead the way to revitalize professionalism in medical education and the medical profession. All medical students will learn about the ethics of drug company interaction with health professionals and make the rational, informed decision to eschew "free" gifts from the pharmaceutical industry throughout the training career. Every practicing physician will practice evidence-based medicine using modalities supported by the best existing clinical evidence, not carefully packaged advertising, and continue to uphold personal and professional integrity. Mission: The mission of AMSA's Counterdetailing Initiative is to educate medical students about evidence-based medicine, specifically evidence-based prescription practices; to empower students through activism to teach themselves, fellow students, and physicians about existing clinical guidelines; to introduce sources of unbiased and expert-reviewed information on pharmaceuticals to resident physicians, attending physicians, and practicing physicians in the community; and to educate medical students and physicians about the effect of pharmaceutical promotions on prescription habits. ___________________________________________ Backstory: A pill they won't swallow http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1228/p20s01-lire.html By G. Jeffrey MacDonald BOSTON - Dutifully wearing collared shirts, ties, and the short white coats meant to keep all medical students humble, Chen Kenyon and Dustin Petersen don't look like rebels. They look scrubbed and eager to learn from any doctor in a long white coat. But in the pockets of their shorter garments lurk symbols of a movement aiming to topple one of medicine's most entrenched traditions. Their pens read "PharmFree," which means they don't take personal gifts of any size from the pharmaceutical industry. And that is touching off a quiet ethics war reverberating through the halls of academia and hospitals across the country. Messrs. Kenyon and Petersen are among a growing band of stethoscope-wearing students who believe the medical profession needs more detachment from big pharmaceutical firms. Consequently, they're turning down everything from free catered meals to notepads, provoking debates among fellow students and quizzical looks from doctors. "People will often ask, 'why didn't you take the pen? Or, why didn't you eat the lunch?'," says Kenyon, a Boston University medical student who packs a sandwich, apple, and granola bar almost every day so he won't have to eat meals sponsored by drugmakers. "It gives you the green light to talk about it when somebody asks," adds Petersen, who swears his home-cooked pot roast and clam chowder leftovers taste better than the catered meals he refuses each week. Behind the modest rebellion is the belief that taking gifts from drug companies creates a conflict of interest for doctors. The argument: To accept handouts is to feel indebted, and doctors indebted to drug firms may not be prescribing medicines based solely on what's best for their patients. The 60,000-member American Medical Student Association (AMSA) urges students and doctors alike to just say "no" to all personal gifts from drugmakers. Doctors on the whole seem far less worried about the practice. The American Medical Association condones gift-taking from pharmaceutical representatives as long as no single gift is worth much more than $100. And drug companies seem to be finding plenty of takers: spending on marketing to physicians jumped from $12.1 billion in 1999 to $22 billion in 2003 ($16 billion of which was in free samples), according to data from Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). Against this backdrop, students are still convinced their cause is worth fighting, even if it means giving up a hot meal every day. "I don't think patients can trust us anymore," says Kristin Rising, a medical student at the University of California, San Francisco. "By accepting gifts, we're taking in biases that are going to affect patient care." Others feel the same way. For the first time this year, between 500 and 1,000 students at 150 medical schools are canvassing 40,000 physicians nationwide. Their aim is to steer them to independent sources of information about drugs. This "counter-detailing initiative" takes AMSA's three-year-old PharmFree project out of medical schools and into the trenches of the profession, where students hope to pique the consciences of future colleagues. Other phases of the movement have been more brazen. Last year, for instance, a brigade of students marched on Pfizer offices in New York and dumped thousands of logo- emblazoned pens, given to the students by the company as gifts and intended as advertisements in their hands, back on the firm's doorstep. Activist students insist their beef is more with the medical profession, which, they say, has come to feel it's entitled to the giveaways, than it is with the drugmakers. Even PhRMA distances itself somewhat from the practice, saying its member firms honor AMA guidelines to keep gift-giving at modest levels. "Any physician can decline a gift at any time," says Dr. Paul T. Antony, PhRMA's chief medical officer. Challenging medicine's status quo, however subtly, often comes at personal cost. Example: Last year in Philadelphia, Kenyon wanted to make a good first impression with his new supervisor on a medicine rotation. But after the firm handshake, things deteriorated as the attending physician suggested they grab lunch - at a seminar sponsored by a drug company. "I told him, 'I don't eat pharmaceutical lunches,' " Kenyon recalls. "He was sort of, like, 'Oh.' And stopped it there. In some way, it doesn't really matter to me, but he is the person evaluating me in the end." Kenyon's predicament illustrates the heart of this struggle: Those making the moral case against gift-taking hold junior status in a hierarchical and tradition-bound profession. "While I think we're right, people don't always want to hear what we have to say," says Ms. Rising. "I'm not in a position to say, 'you, my supervisor, are wrong' " to accept giveaways. With no real standing to make their case to higher-ups, students rely instead on the shock power that comes with saying "no thanks" when offered coveted freebies. Fellow students, they say, respond with a mixture of surprise, curiosity, ridicule - and lots of discussion. Take the case of Chris McCoy. A 2004 graduate of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. McCoy had earned a reputation as a stickler for ethics by complaining when fellow students proposed to get drug companies to sponsor the medical school's social events. After the proposal was defeated, students kept eating meals provided by drug firms, but discussion about the ethics of doing so lingered like garlic. "They'd say, 'What would Chris think if he saw us eating the drug lunch?' " McCoy recalls. Where tensions arise, activists say, is when a student sets a higher ethical standard than a supervisor. No words need be spoken for a supervisor in a buffet line to feel a bit snubbed when a student settles for a granola bar instead of "tainted" pharmaceutical food. "In a lot of cases, people feel like you're pulling the moral high ground," Kenyon says. Students who dream of higher ethical standards for medicine expect to pay higher personal prices as time goes by. As medical residents, they'll be among peers who feel they've "earned" drug-industry perks, says Bob Goodman, founder of "No Free Lunch," a physician group that urges colleagues to stop taking gifts from drugmakers. What's more, residents with low salaries and high debt levels are famous for relying on drugmakers to keep them fed during long shifts. Residents say "once you see the reality of the way medicine is, you won't be so idealistic," says Yavar Moghimi, a George Washington University medical student. "I worry about that. [But] family members always congratulate me and tell me how important they think this is." 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URL: /pipermail/coordinator_resultsproject.net/attachments/20060101/a0a86dc6/attachment-0001.htm From webmasters at mashpx.com Sun Jan 1 21:35:51 2006 From: webmasters at mashpx.com (Bob Anderson) Date: Sun Jan 1 23:41:47 2006 Subject: [Coordinator] Israeli scientist develops natural alternative for Ritalin Message-ID: Source: http://www.israel21c.org/bin/en.jsp?enDispWho=Articles%5El1190&enPage=BlankP age&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enVersion=0&enZone=Health Israeli scientist develops natural alternative for Ritalin By David Brinn January 01, 2006 Dr. Nachum Vaisman: Our substance will hopefully make a change that doesn't depend on daily dosages like Ritalin. Children with ADHD may need sleep, Israeli study finds Natural relief for prostate enlargement Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center ADD Association Parents of children with attention deficits have come to rely on Ritalin to keep their children calm and attentive in school. However, potential side effects and health hazards have made many parents hesitant about giving their children the drug, and has caused sleepless nights among those who have made the choice to do so. Now, research coming out of Israel suggests that that in the future, parents of children diagnosed with an attention deficit disorder may have more options to consider. Rresearchers at Tel Aviv's Sourasky Medical Center have successfully tested a natural oil-based alternative to the widely used Ritalin to treat ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) behavioral symptoms such as short attention span and inability to focus. If the promising results of initial testing of the substance proves successful, it will represent a natural alternative to Ritalin. According to medical experts, ADHD and ADD have been diagnosed for hundreds of years, but more recently these conditions have become more prevalent due to the increased use of chemicals, pollutants, or heavy metal toxicity (such as lead, mercury, and cadmium). One estimate quotes over 1.3 million American children with ADD; another source quotes up to 3 million with ADHD. Roughly 10 million Ritalin prescriptions are filled each year in the US for the treatment of children and adults with ADHD. Ritalin, a trade name for the prescription drug methylphenidate, is a central nervous system stimulant. Its effects are similar to, but more potent than, caffeine, but less potent than amphetamines. Sales of Ritalin and similar drugs increased by more than 500% in the 1990s. As far back as 1996, the World Health Organization warned that overuse of Ritalin - the most widely prescribed drug for children with ADD and ADHD - had reached dangerous proportions. According to research, use of the drug on a long-term basis may provoke seizures and suppress growth, or may cause angina, blood pressure changes, depression or any of a very long list of serious side effects. Dr. Nachum Waisman, the head of clinical nutrition at Sourasky, has been working on the development of the Ritalin alternative for a year and a half at the behest of an unnamed company which commissioned the study and which hopes to develop it into a product. At their request, Waisman could not disclose the actual components of the substance beyond its 'oil-based' description. "They're not prepared to go public with this yet," he told ISRAEL21c. However, Waisman agreed to discuss details of the study. "There have been many studies done about the relationship between fatty acids and ADHD. Our goal was to come up with the right combination of oils which would effectively change the impulses going through the cell membranes." "We had about 90 children - ages 8-13 - enrolled in the study; it was conducted in the summer so they were off their Ritalin," said Vaisman. All the children had either been taking Ritalin or were diagnosed as ADHD via a computerized test called TOVA (Test of Variables Attention). The TOVA is a 22.5 minute computerized assessment (visual or auditory), which in conjunction with teacher and parent behavior rating scales, is a highly effective screening tool for ADD. It is non-language based (to differentiate ADD from learning disorders), requires no left-right discrimination, and has negligible practice effects. After the children were all confirmed to be ADHD, Vaisman then divided them into three groups - and conducted a double blind study. "One group was given normal Canola oil, another group given fish oil," he recounted. Fish oil is high in omega-3 fats, which have been found to effectively address the underlying fatty acid deficiency that is present in most of these children and appears to be contributing to the ADHD. "The third group was given the mixture under study," he said. All of the dosages were mixed into chocolate spread in order to increase the children's compliance over a three month period. At the end of the three months, Vaisman's team administered the TOVA again, and compared the results. "There was no change in the canola oil group, a slight improvement in the fish oil group, and significant improvement in the group that received the product. "60% of the children ended up in the normal range of the TOVA," he said. Still, Vaisman cautioned that more testing will need to be conducted before the substance can be recognized as a beneficial and marketed as a natural alternative treatment for ADHD. "You never build on one study, so we need to repeat the study in much larger numbers," said Vaisman. "But our substance will hopefully make a change that doesn't depend on daily dosages like Ritalin. And it's completely natural." In his role as the head of the unit for Clinical Nutrition Diagnoses at Sourasky, Vaisman also deals with issues like gastro-intestinal problems, eating disorders, obesity. "We're conducting a lot research in these areas, and I also hold four clinics a week for treating patients," he said. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/coordinator_resultsproject.net/attachments/20060101/44137f79/attachment.htm From Coordinator at resultsproject.net Mon Jan 2 15:04:02 2006 From: Coordinator at resultsproject.net (Coordinator@resultsproject.net) Date: Mon Jan 2 15:10:07 2006 Subject: [Coordinator] AMEN ANDY ROONEY ! 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FLAMINGO 6:30 ? 8:00 PM SPEAKER The New Las Vegas ChADD Coordinator - ?STEVEN PLOG? * Lab tests for what causes ADD symptoms * A visual evaluation might be wrong * Are you misdiagnosed and on drugs? Telephone: (702) 341-0614 This is what any Results Project Coordinator can do themselves. Contact ChADD at http://www.chadd.org/ or call them on the toll free 800-233-4050 and tell them you want to be the ChADD coordinator for your area. If they say your town is taken, then find someone in your downline that lives in the next city over use them. You will send them $45 to become a member of ChADD, when you get accepted as the ChADD coordinator in your area, (they accept everyone) you will then start to receive $10 from everyone new who joins ChADD in your area. ChADD will send you $10 and the contact information. You hold free meetings once or twice a month. You can not sell anything at the meetings. Nothing! But you can refer them to lab testing, nutrient depletion side effects, toxic metal symptoms, etc. ChADD says they are a resource and reference referral service only. I now have 500 contact names, numbers and email from the last 4 years of ChADD meetings in Vegas. 500 leads of people who have been pushed into drugs that don't work! MEOW! As the new head of ChADD all the schools are welcoming me with open arms into their schools. All the mental health facilities are gladly setting up appointments with me. Churches, hospitals, city and state police are meeting with me! Plus they turned over their bank account to me and I have a $350 war chest to start with. I have drug money to help promote complimentary medicine! heehee How would you like to have hundreds of leads pay you $10 to get information? We've got the fix for 2006! Steve Con -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/coordinator_resultsproject.net/attachments/20060105/44007e86/attachment.htm From Coordinator at resultsproject.net Fri Jan 6 16:16:35 2006 From: Coordinator at resultsproject.net (Coordinator@resultsproject.net) Date: Fri Jan 6 16:27:21 2006 Subject: [Coordinator] 9 out of 10 children on Docs meds. Message-ID: <7.0.0.15.2.20060106140701.021c76f0@cox.net> The next time your local school wants you to be diagnosed by a psychiatrist give them these statistics. A survey of recently trained psychiatrists found that only 1 in 10 children in their practice DOES NOT receive medication! Reference: Study Stubbe DE, Thomas WJ: A survey of early-career child and adolescent psychiatrist: professional activities perceptions. J AM Academy Adolescent Psychiatry 2002; 41:123-130 http://tinvurl.com/8zsss According to US statistics 9 out of 10 school shootings involved drugs. Also according to US statistics 100% of the drugs were prescription drugs. None of the school shooting seemed to involve Cocaine, Speed, PCP, Marijuana or alcohol. (1) On Apri120, 1999, Eric Harris, one of the two Colorado Columbine High School seniors who went on a deadly rampage, entered his school-shooting students and faculty and setting off explosives. Twelve students and one teacher were killed, along with the two gunmen who ended the rampage by killing themselves, while twenty-three others were wounded. A toxicology report revealed Luvox, an antidepressant, in Harris system. (2) On November 20, 1986, 14-year-old Rod Mathews beat a classmate to death with a bat in the woods near his home in Canton, Massachusetts. He had been prescribed Ritalin since the third grade. (3) William Cruse was charged with killing six people in a shooting rampage on Apri123, 1987, in Palm Bay, Florida. Cruse had been seeing a Kentucky psychiatrist and stated he had been taking psychiatric drugs for several years. (4) Bartley Dobben killed his two young children on November 26, 1987, by casting them in a 1,300-degree foundry ladle. He had been placed on a regimen of psychiatric drugs in 1985. (5) On May 20, 1988, Laurie Dann walked into a Winnetka, Illinois second grade classroom carrying three pistols and began shooting innocent little children, killing one and wounding five others before killing herself. Subsequent blood tests revealed that both Lithium and the antidepressant Anafranil were in her bloodstream at the time the murder was committed. (6) On September 26, 1988, 19-year-old James Wilson took a .22 caliber revolver into an elementary school in Greenwood, South Carolina, and started shooting schoolchildren, killing two 8-year-old girls and wounding seven other children and two teachers. Wilson had been in and out of the hands of psychiatrists for years and within eight months of the killings he had been on several psychiatric drugs, which can generate violent behavior. Since the age of 14 he had been given psychiatric drugs, including Xanax, Valium, Thorazine and Haldol. 7) On January 17, 1989, Patrick Purdy opened fire on a schoolyard full of young children in Stockton, California. During his vicious and unprovoked assault, Purdy killed five schoolchildren and wounded thirty others before killing him- self. During the two years prior to the murders of the Stockton children Purdy had been on two strong psychiatric drugs of categories known to cause violence. (8) On Apri128, 1992, Kenneth Sequin drugged his two children, ages 7 and 5, took them to a pond, slashed their wrists and dumped their bodies in the water. He then drove home and killed his wife with an ax while she slept. He was on Prozac at the time. (9) In November, 1992, Lynwood Drake III, in San Luis Obispo and California, shot and killed six people with a handgun before he killed himself. Metabolized Prozac and Valium were both found in his system. (10) In December, 1993, Steven Leith of Chelsea, Michigan, walked back into a school meeting and fatally shot the school superintendent and wounded two others including a fellow teacher. He was on Prozac at the time of the shootings. (11) Sixteen-year-old Brian Pruitt, who fatally stabbed his grandparents in 1995 had a history of psychiatric treatment and had been prescribed psychiatric drugs. (12) On November 3, 1995, Sergeant Steven B. Christian, a twenty-five-year commended veteran of the Dallas police force drove to a police sub-station and seriously wounded an officer outside in his attempt to get inside and shoot others. Christian was shot and killed by two fellow Dallas police officers. The autopsy revealed high levels of an antidepressant in his blood. (13) In Connecticut on March 6, 1998, Matthew Beck, a lottery accountant, reported promptly to his job, hung up his coat and methodically gunned down four of his bosses, one of whom he chased through a parking lot before he turned the gun on himself. Beck had been seeing a psychiatrist and was taking three types of "psychiatric drugs". (14) On May 28, 1998, Brynn Hartman murdered her husband, comic Phil Hartman, then committed suicide. She had been prescribed and had been taking the antidepressant drug Zoloft, which the coroner found in her system along with alcohol and cocaine. (15) On February 19, 1996, 10-year-old Timmy Becton grabbed his 3-year-old niece as a shield and aimed a shotgun at a Sheriff's deputy who had accompanied a truant officer to his Florida home. Becton had been taken to a psychiatrist in January and had been put on a psychiatric drug. (16) While on vacation on May 25, 1997 in Las Vegas, 18-year-old Jeremy Strohmeyer raped and murdered a 7-year-old girl in the ladies restroom in a casino. He had been diagnosed with ADD and prescribed Dexedrine. He had begun taking the drug a week before the killing. (17) On September 27, 1997, 16-year-old Sam Manzie raped and strangled another boy to death. At the time of the killing the younger boy had been selling candy door-to-door for the local PTA. Manzie was under psychiatric "care" and was being "medicated" with psychiatric drugs. (18) On May 21, 1998, 14-year-old Kip Kinkel shot and killed his parents and then went on a wild shooting spree at his Springfield, Oregon high school that left two dead and twenty-two injured. He was reportedly taking Prozac and Ritalin and had been attending "anger management" classes. (19) On March 6, 1985, Atlanta postal worker, Steven W. Brownlee, pulled a pistol from his pocket and shot and killed a supervisor and a clerk. Another clerk was wounded. Brownlee had received treatment and psychotropic drugs at the Grady Memorial Psychiatric Unit. (20) On May 4, 1999, Steven Allen Abrams rammed his car into a preschool playground in Costa Mesa, California, killing two and injuring five. He had been placed on probation in 1994, which required him to see a psychiatrist and take Lithium. While only 20 Incidents of Senseless Violence have been quoted, 51 are referenced below. I. Roben Whitaker, "Lure of riches fuels testing," The Boston Globe, 17 Nov. 1998. 2. Lawrence H. 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"Patients group getting $3M a year from firms", New York Post, 28 Fcb. 1999. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/coordinator_resultsproject.net/attachments/20060106/3410127b/attachment-0001.htm From Coordinator at resultsproject.net Sun Jan 8 23:35:45 2006 From: Coordinator at resultsproject.net (Coordinator@resultsproject.net) Date: Mon Jan 9 00:40:03 2006 Subject: [Coordinator] Flax seed oil and vitamin C improve ADHD Message-ID: Source: http://www.healthsentinel.com/org_news.php?id=073&title=Flax+seed+oil+and+vi tamin+C+improve+ADHD&event=org_news_print_list_item Flax seed oil and vitamin C improve ADHD Roman Bystrianyk, "Flax seed oil and vitamin C improve ADHD", Health Sentinel, January 8, 2006, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, is the most commonly diagnosed behavioral disorder in children. The diagnosis affects approximately 3-5% of school-going children. Studies have established that certain long-chained fatty acids are critical for normal brain development. Additional studies have show that deficiencies or imbalances in these fatty acids contribute to ADHD. Fatty acids, docosahexaenoic acid or DHA and eicosapentanoic acid or EPA, are key for normal brain development and found in large amounts in fish oil. Alpha linolenic acid, or ALA, is a precursor fatty acid to DHA and is found in large amounts in flax seed oil. Children can convert ALA to DHA, but the conversion is dependent on adequate amounts of ALA and a low level of linoleic acid, or LA, in the diet. LA is found in large amounts in corn, safflower, sunflower, and canola oils. A study in the January 2006 issue of the journal Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids, examined 30 children diagnosed with ADHD along with 30 healthy control children. They were given flax oil supplements containing 200 mg of ALA along with 25 mg of vitamin C two times a day for 3 months. A trained clinical psychologist analyzed the children?s behavior before and after the 3 months. The children's blood cells were also analyzed before and after the supplementation to determine the change in fatty acids. It was found that at the end of the 3 months there was a ?significant increase? in the levels of both EPA and DHA. All ADHD measures were improved after the 3 months. ?Individual scores of Inattention, Impulsivity, Restlessness and Self-Control reduced significantly post-supplementation. SI [social problems] and I [learning problems] scores constituting RPS [Related Problem Score] were found to be significantly decreasing in the post-supplementation group.? All the children in the enrolled study completed the 3 months of supplementation with no dropouts. The supplements were well accepted by all the children and there were no side effects. The authors conclude that, ?All the symptoms like impulsivity, restlessness, inattention, self-control, psychosomatic problems and learning problems showed highly significant improvement. Social problems and learning problems together constituted-related problems score also dropped significantly. There is considerable evidence that polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation brought about improvement in educational and behavioral problems among children with developmental coordination disorder and reduction in ADHD-related symptoms.? SOURCE: Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids, January 2006 Comments: Left by: Anonymous on Jan. 9, 2006 Subject: CynthiaTweedle Yet another study showing that polyunsaturated fats or omega fatty acids can help ADHD. But this is the first study I have seen on flax seed oil. The US is way behind other countries in doing these types of studies, but many citizens are way ahead in giving their ADHD children omegas daily. In time the trend will be towards omegas and away from medications for all but the very severe. There is no doubt that ADHD exists. I have had it all my life and two of my grandchildren have it. At last there is a proven natural way to combat it. Anyone who denies ADHD exists denies the true value of these studies which will help us. ct Left by: Anonymous on Jan. 8, 2006 Subject: ADHD fraud Common sense really. "ADHD" is total fraud, an invented "disorder" for the purpose of turning more and more children into patients, and to sell more drugs. We have known for decades the links between food and mood and that feeding a child an unhealthy diet, lacking in vital vitamins and minerals, will create problems. In fact, many of Psychiatry's "mental illnesses" can be handled through effective nutrition. See http://groups.msn.com/psychbusters for more info. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/coordinator_resultsproject.net/attachments/20060108/a54d9b3d/attachment.htm From Coordinator at resultsproject.net Mon Jan 9 16:40:55 2006 From: Coordinator at resultsproject.net (Coordinator@resultsproject.net) Date: Mon Jan 9 17:05:56 2006 Subject: [Coordinator] Smart Kids' Youth Achievement Award Contest Entries Message-ID: Source: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-09 -2006/0004244852&EDATE= Deadline Nears for Smart Kids' Youth Achievement Award Contest Entries WESTPORT, Conn., Jan. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Teachers, coaches, counselors, parents and mentors are urged to nominate candidates for the third annual Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities Youth Achievement Award before the January 31st deadline. Students 18 years old or under with learning disabilities (LD) or ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) are eligible to enter the competition highlighting their special gifts or strengths. The top $500 award will go to a young person who has demonstrated initiative, talent and determination resulting in a notable accomplishment in any field -- including music, art, academics, athletics or community service. Honorable Mentions will also be awarded. The 2006 Smart Kids with LD Youth Achievement Award will be presented by David Neeleman, CEO, JetBlue Airways and Honorary Chairman of Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities, on June 15, 2006 at the organization's annual benefit dinner at the Marriott Hotel, Stamford, Connecticut. Transportation and hotel accommodations will be provided for the child and his or her parents. Applications for the award may be downloaded from the Smart Kids with LD website: http://www.SmartKidswithLD.org/award.html, and submitted, along with documentation of the student's LD or ADHD, by January 31st. For further information, contact Jane Ross at Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities, 203 226-6831, or email Info@SmartKidswithLD.org. Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities is a national nonprofit organization based in Westport, Connecticut that provides practical information and support to parents, promoting their critical role as advocates for their children. The organization produces a newsletter and New Member publication, maintains a user-friendly website and conducts regional educational programs. The Smart Kids newsletter and website contain material on evaluation and diagnosis, current research findings, profiles of outstandingly successful adults with LD and ADHD, and support strategies offered by parents and professionals. The 2005 Youth Achievement Award winner was 17-year-old Rebecca Lynn Conviser, of Glencoe, Illinois, an exceptionally talented young singer, who told the audience at presentation ceremonies in Stamford that her passion for singing sustained her through years of struggle with nonverbal learning disabilities. Six candidates from California, Florida, Colorado, New York, New Hampshire and North Carolina received Honorable Mention awards, and Special Recognition was given to Patrick Seveland, of El Cajon, California. SOURCE Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities Web Site: http://www.SmartKidswithLD.org/award.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Issuers of news releases and not PR Newswire are solely responsible for the accuracy of the content. Terms and conditions, including restrictions on redistribution, apply. Copyright ? 1996- 2006 PR Newswire Association LLC. All Rights Reserved. A United Business Media company. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/coordinator_resultsproject.net/attachments/20060109/dc9bdf20/attachment-0001.htm From Coordinator at resultsproject.net Mon Jan 9 16:46:16 2006 From: Coordinator at resultsproject.net (Coordinator@resultsproject.net) Date: Mon Jan 9 17:05:56 2006 Subject: [Coordinator] Special needs pupils to get fish oil supplements Message-ID: Source: http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,5500,1682432,00.html?gusrc=r ss Special needs pupils to get fish oil supplements Press Association Monday January 9, 2006 Fish oil supplements are to be tested on a group of special-school children with learning and behavioural difficulties. Researchers want to know if the brain-boosting omega-3 supplements can improve such disorders. Omega-3 is an oil rich in EPA, a fatty acid that helps the brain to send messages between cells. Studies have shown that it can improve memory, mood, concentration and behaviour. The 38 pupils taking part in the trial, which begins today, all attend Eaton Hall special school, in Norwich. For six months they will take the supplements every day, while their behaviour is closely monitored. The children, aged 10 to 16, have a range of problems including attention deficit disorder (ADD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, dyslexia, Asperger's syndrome and pervasive development disorder. Some of them have already been prescribed drugs. Ritalin is used to treat ADD and ADHD but can lead to decreased appetite and insomnia. There is some evidence that omega-3 can reduce these side effects when taken together with ritalin. That relationship will also be examined. Lianne Quantrill, project coordinator at the school, said: "There is already mounting evidence to suggest there are benefits to taking omega-3 fish oils, particularly for those with behavioural problems who may already have fatty acid deficiencies. "This trial will be a chance to look in detail at the effect on a particular group of children with special needs. "The results from the trial could well go on to affect national attitudes towards the link between dietary supplements of this kind and behaviour." The findings will be analysed by Dr Madeline Portwood, a senior educational psychologist working for Durham county council. Staff already monitor the behaviour of pupils, building up a daily record of their progress and behaviour. By comparing previous information with that gathered during the trial, the impact of the supplements will be gauged. Parents have granted permission for their children to take part in the trial and can withdraw them at any time. One mother, Debbie Weymouth, said: "There is so much that I have read about the positive effects of omega-3 oils, it will be interesting to see for myself if there is an effect on my son." Fish oil also contains vitamin D, which maintains strong bones and is thought to protect against cancer. A study published in the Lancet medical journal last week showed that pregnant women who lacked vitamin D might give birth to children with an increased risk of osteoporosis. Researchers who scanned 200 nine-year-old children found that the mothers of those with low bone mass were deficient in vitamin D while pregnant. Pregnant women who took vitamin D supplements and were exposed to higher levels of sunlight had healthier children. Sunlight helps the body to manufacture its own vitamin D. Professor Cyrus Cooper, from the University of Southampton, who leads the Medical Research Council team that conducted the study, said: "These findings provide unique evidence that a mother's vitamin D status during pregnancy has a long-lasting effect on her child's bone development." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Stephanie Crawford, an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy has been selected to sit on the advisory panel to weigh-in on ADD Drug Risks. Parent and child advocates question Ms. Crawford's longstanding affiliation with the University of Illinois and its long history with ADHD Research. The University of Illinois receives millions of dollars in Attention Deficit Drug Research. Both ADD and ADHD known as Attention Deficit Disorder with or without hyperactivity are subjective psychiatric labels for which there are no demonstrable objective tests. Without legitimate scientific testing to verify the existence of these labels, researchers have resorted to using highly subjective questionnaires, surveys, or rating scales in determining a diagnosis. A widely used and controversial rating scale, the "Acter's profile for boys (or girls)" comes from the University of Illinois and its research department. This one screening method or random survey is being unlawfully used within the public education system without the approval of any Local, State, or Federal Government to diagnose school children throughout the United States. These research screenings are being casually passed off to parents and school personnel without full informed consent and are currently being legally challenged within Federal Courts. "Parents are simply not being told that their children are participating in research," says Sheila Matthews Founder of Ablechild a non-profit organization. Ms. Crawford's own participation in ADHD Research under grant application PA-98004 Drug Abuse and ADHD in Adults and Their High Risk Offspring further demonstrates the just cause for her removal from the panel. Though the FDA has a conflict of interest screening process and waiver criteria, there are still some conflicts of interest that are simply not manageable and should be challenged. To have a panel member that works for this particular University that receives a tremendous amount of pharmaceutical and psychiatric financial support to conduct research on this very same label defeats the purpose, authority, and function of the panel itself. Ablechild is an IRS approved, nonprofit, tax-exempt, Section 501(c) (3) charitable organization, and donations are tax deductible under the provisions of the IRS Code. Ablechild and the Ablechild logo is a Trademark of Ablechild, Inc. For more information, go to http://www.ablechild.org CONTACT INFORMATION Patricia Weathers Ablechild Email Us 845-677-4118 http://www.ablechild.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/coordinator_resultsproject.net/attachments/20060109/e37d1365/attachment.htm From Coordinator at resultsproject.net Tue Jan 10 01:34:01 2006 From: Coordinator at resultsproject.net (Coordinator@resultsproject.net) Date: Tue Jan 10 01:42:57 2006 Subject: [Coordinator] Steve's new baby threatened by doctor Message-ID: <7.0.0.15.2.20060109231757.021e0c10@cox.net> I can't believe what other parents are going through out there with their family doctor. Today I felt like the Gestapo had an office in Las Vegas. I went to the pediatrician today and got sandbagged. It felt like a lynching. The young doctor came in all smiles and friendly, checked Chase's weight, size etc. Then smiled and started to inform me of the shots he was going to give. I smiled back and said, "Not this kid" and then the doctors entire physiology changed right before my eyes. He said, "OK, but I'll have to have you sign this waiver before I continue." I said, "fine, I'll sign anything you want, but this kid isn't getting toxic poison put into her body unless I'm dead." Then the Nazi inquisition started. He informed me that if I don't give her the shots there is a 1 in 10 chance she'll get whooping cough. I smiled and said, "I've already addressed what causes whooping cough." Puzzled he looked up and said, "What's that?" I said Glyconutrients. He said, he was familiar with that supplement. Then he went on, and at this point scared my wife to death. He informed us that if the baby ever hit her head as babies do and she goes to the hospital and they see that on top of an injury, she also has been "medically neglected" from not having her shots, that child services would be brought in and there is a possibility that Chase would then be taken away from us. I smiled and said, "Anything I should be concerned about?" He said, "I'm just telling you that the State of Nevada considers not giving your child inoculations as neglect." I smiled and said, "If the State ever becomes a parent, the State will think differently." I again asked, "Is there anything medical I should be concerned about if I get the shot?" He smiled back and said, "You should be more concerned about what will happen if you don't get the shot. You're worried about the few thousand cases of side effects verses the millions of deaths from the disease itself." I smiled and said, "I'm not worried about disease, I'm worried about poison." He goes on, "If your child contracts a disease that could have been prevented by inoculations and another child catches it, you will be sued for endangerment." I smiled real big and said, "So in other words I have absolutely nothing to worry about?" We both left with crocodile smiles on our faces. I can't believe what people go through! I watch Law and Order and the cops playing good cop - bad cop don't abuse their suspects this badly! My wife is now traumatized and sick to her stomach. She's been looking on the net at English speaking countries that don't have extradition treaties with the US. Hayley looked me in the eye and said, "If Child Services comes after Chase, we leave and don't come back, right?" I said, "You grab the baby, I'll run interference and we'll disappear better than D.B. Cooper." All of this thinking because we visited our family doctor? This fight for the mindless drugging of our children just hit my front porch. I have been approached by CCHR to be one of their spokespersons for speaking out against TeenScreen and have accepted. We are now linked on their website http://www.cchr.org/index.cfm/5294 and I've been meeting with the Regional VP of Pre-paid legal to draw up a legal strategy to prevent crap like this from happening to our participants and our own coordinators families themselves. We live in a new and scary world, it's time we got bigger teeth. Are there any of you out there who have had similar experiences at the doctors office? Steve PS I have a new number: 702-341-0614 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/coordinator_resultsproject.net/attachments/20060109/f10816a9/attachment.htm From Coordinator at resultsproject.net Tue Jan 10 02:56:21 2006 From: Coordinator at resultsproject.net (Coordinator@resultsproject.net) Date: Tue Jan 10 03:03:28 2006 Subject: [Coordinator] How to make money & recruits with the Results Project Message-ID: <7.0.0.15.2.20060110004513.021dddf8@cox.net> Hello Fellow MannaJammers, I haven't been as active in promoting the Results Project in the last six months because of two reasons. 1. I just had a new baby and needed to stay home more and 2. It still wasn't working like I had envisioned it. People were helping kids but it was costing them time and money to do so. What I had in mind was making money and getting recruits. My last meeting I made $1,300 and put 12 people on products. This has also worked in Florida with Paula Mcclellan and partner Cindy Lukehart and also worked in Massachusetts with the dynamic duo of Donna Leger and Beverly Barrett. Below is how we did it. Cut and paste this into Word and print it out. How we justify $199 for the Results Project. If you'll go on the Internet and look at what other programs are charging you'll find people such as ADD Coach, Jennifer Koretsky (Not a doctor), at http://www.addmanagement.com/nationalprogram.htm who charges $1,200 for her 90 day program that deals with your "problems," helps "fix" what's wrong with you and most of the time that also includes drugs. She is a member of CHADD, the organization backed and supported by pharmaceutical companies as all of ChADD's books, literature and magazines only contain drugs ads. Other people charge up to $5,000 because they have MD or PhD behind their name, or they're an author. Now our $199 is starting to look good and priced right. Next look at lab testing starting with Dr. Janet Hull who I feel is one of the best there is for diagnosing and treating toxic metals and nutrient depletions. Her website is at http://www.hairanalysisprogram.com/results-project.php where you can order a hair analysis lab test online for toxic metals and nutrient depletions for $180. She orders her lab tests from Doctors Data at http://www.doctorsdata.com/ and then supplies you with a written diagnosis based on that lab test. The reason they call themselves Doctors Data is you have to be a doctor, chiropractor, or psychiatrist etc to order from them. In some cases you are fighting the courts, school or spouse regarding a diagnosis of ADD based on a visual or written evaluation from a psychiatrist and need a doctor's diagnosis to fight it. That is where Dr. Hull comes in. This is the best $180 you ever spent if use her to get your child off drugs. The $199 program Now let's look again at the Results Project for $199 that includes; a lab test, supplements, workbook, DVD's, CD's and a 12 week positive support group. Contact a local chiropractor and offer a business deal for ordering lab tests. Tell them to contact Doctors Data and set up an account. They will then send your chiropractor 20 or 30 hair kits at no charge. They come in envelopes with a paper measuring device to measure how much hair you need and instructions on how to collect it. When the chiropractor sends in a lab test to Doctors Data they will bill him $46 for the test in 30 days. You will give your chiropractor $60 for ordering the test so they get a $14 profit. Why will the chiropractor want to do this? 1. You can't pick up the lab tests because they're private and confidential medical files. So the Results Project participants have to physically go in to the chiropractor's office to pick them up. While they're in the office they might actually want to ask about the service. 2. When you pass out the test kits you will include the chiropractor's brochure offering his service. 3. When those lab tests come back 99% of the time they come back proving they are badly toxic and in dire need of anti-oxidants. Somebody has to sell them supplements, might as well be the doctor! 4. No downside, the absolute worst thing that could happen is you order 10 lab tests and the doctor gets $140 for mailing it out. The chiropractor would get his name out there and advertised for nothing and everyone would know he uses "Evidence Based Medicine" in his practice not Voodoo. 5. Ask the doctor to be your "Medical Director" for your community program. It's a feather in their cap to have that kind of a title and it gives you more substance to your program to have them on board. It also helps you get grants and respect in schools and other doctors who want to drug your participant's kids. It will be up to you to go to the doctor's office, collect the paperwork and fill it all out when you sign parents up at the meeting. Then you bring all the paperwork back already filled out with the hair sample in the mini plastic baggie and all the doctor has to do is mail it in. Pay to be a prospect program. The participants will pay $10 to come to the meeting. At the beginning of the meeting on the overheads they will see what others are charging and what others think about ADD being a problem. They'll be told to keep that $1,200 and $5,000 in mind during the 90-minute presentation. At the end of the presentation we'll be covering lab test costs and other programs cost at the very end. Then we'll bring out the cost of our program. They will throw money at you when they hear this deal. On one over head I list what the program costs: $249 - for the 12 week program. $180 - for the lab tests $ 20 - for the DVD "Why I Love My ADD" $ 20 - for the CD, Lab Test not Best Guess PowerPoint (includes all the overheads they saw that night.) $ 56 - Vitamin and mineral, fruit and vegetable, anti-oxidant supplements for the first month. $ 20 - for the ADD Workbook. $545 Total At this point the people in the audience are excited about finally getting the proof they need for their child or themselves to get better. They are finally seeing a program that will uplift their child into a Quick Smart Kid not a loser. Then you make them an offer they can't resist!!! We say, "Folks, there are two groups of people who come to these seminars. Group A, those who jump right in the first night and do everything thing we say. They show up for all the meetings, they order the lab test right away, they build their dream books the first week, they order the books we recommend to read first thing when they get home. Then there are the others in group B, who hem and haw, poke around for two weeks, then get dragged back kicking and screaming to join the program. They argue with everything we say, they don't order tests, they don't order the books, they don't build a dream board and they find it mysteriously not working for them and badmouth our program. We're going to reward group A and separate the groups and work with them separately. Here is what we're going to give group A. Then on the over head I put: $139 - for 12 week program for the entire immediate family (grandparents, kids, uncles etc.) $ 60 - for each lab tests for as many in the immediate family want to take them. N/C - for the DVD "Why I Love My ADD" N/C - for the CD, Lab Test not Best Guess PowerPoint (includes all the overheads they saw that night.) N/C - Vitamin and mineral, fruit and vegetable, anti-oxidant supplements for the first month. N/C - for the ADD Workbook. $199 Total (A $334 savings!) When they see this they run to the stage and throw money at you! You then take their money to use to buy everything else they need for the program. $ 60 - lab test $ 52 - MannaBears and Glycobears (ordered where ever you need it most in your downline) $ 20 - DVD & CD (Steve brings these to the seminar and you pay for them after people sign up) $ 5 - Workbook $137 Total After all is said and done, you should be able to put $62 in your pocket and $43 in volume in your downline per person. It gets pretty exiting when you look at the numbers. 10 people - $ 620 in pocket - $ 430 in volume 20 people - $1,240 in pocket - $ 860 in volume 30 people - $1,860 in pocket - $1,290 in volume. If you take out the supplements and sell them at a later time after the lab tests come back it looks like this. 10 people - $1,120 in your pocket 20 people - $2,240 in your pocket 30 people - $3,360 in your pocket Through Steve you can be set up with National Heritage Foundation and have a non-profit for $100 in two weeks. (If you sign up online, it will cost you $285) This will also give you the ability to take credit cards at the seminar. 8 out of 10 will chose to do the credit card. That night, you take the credit card info off the credit card form and enter it online at www.nhf.org and you'll have your money the next day. The next day you pay Steve for the DVD's and CD PowerPoint out of the money collected from participants. This way you're not out of pocket for them and you don't order more or less than you need. With the money from participants you buy the workbooks from OfficeMax for $2 each and print out the pages that go in them using the participant's money. Steve gets half of the door receipts and gives up the leads, you get the other half of the door receipts and give up the airfare. Selling the DVD & CD in the participants kit helps pay for Steve's speaker fees without coming out of your pocket. You schedule the next meeting about 7 to 10 days away so you can order the products and build the workbooks. When the parents give you $199 here is a list of what they will take home with them that night. 1. Homework (pages 2, 3, 6, 7 & 13 from the work book) to be filled out and brought to first meeting 2. Hair kit (hair kit to be brought back to first meeting 3. DVD & CD What they bring to the follow up meeting. 1. Hair kits with hair in them and all paperwork filled out 2. Homework filled out and at least one of the books bought that were recommended on page 13. We've all had meetings that didn't have enough people show up. Then the few people who are there are wondering why all those other people didn't come. My first meeting with this new program I signed up 12 people, put $1,344 in my pocket and only had 8 people show up at the first meeting. Then 7 showed up at the next meeting. (I still made $1,344, but felt bad when the number of attendees dropped) So we don't do mandatory meetings for the 12 weeks. We explain in the seminar that most of this will be done over the phone and email and for those who would like to attend the "Optional" positive support group, they will happen every two weeks on whatever day you find most convenient for yourself. Now if 8 of the 12 showed up at the optional positive support group, nobody would have batted an eye. People expect two income families and soccer moms to be busy. Where to have the follow up meeting. I called the marketing director for Wild Oats Health Food Stores of Las Vegas. When we sat down I explained that from what I understand it costs about $100 in the industry to get a new customer. I proposed that they let me have my follow up meeting at their health food store. I explained that I was going to be recommending people in my 12-week program to start eating at a health food store anyway. We then worked out a deal where Wild Oats is one of my sponsors. The supply all the healthy munchies and organic drinks at my seminars and I put their name as a sponsor on my flyer, email and a banner I get from them to put up in the seminar. Then at the follow up meeting, Wild Oats puts up an "Eating Healthy Starter Bag" of groceries with a value of about $25. In it they have Soy milk, Stevia sweetener, Glutton free bread, almonds, carob coated raisons, veggie chips, organic pop, soy butter, sea salt etc. It jump starts them as a customer of the store. After the meeting people will shop right then and there. It's a great win-win for the store and the Results Project and gives you another supporter and sponsor. HOW TO ORGANIZE A SUCCESSFUL RESULTS PROJECT SEMINAR 1. A) How the money is split up when Steve does the seminars. Contact Steve to invite and "book" him for your meetings to be held at least 3-6 weeks prior to him coming to town. You pay for the airfare to bring Steve into your town. You get your money back when you have a good turnout for the meetings. We charge $10 at the door and split the money 50/50. Use your non-profit status to get a free room from a hospital, school or church. If you don't and end up paying for a room, it comes out of your half. Steve gets 50% of the money and none of the leads or prospects. That's what he gives up, you give up the airfare. You don't have to pay for a hotel, just put Steve up in a spare room or on your couch. B) I only charge cover for the meetings at night. The daytime is for generating interest in the meetings. Get me in front of all the breakfast or luncheon meetings put on by the Rotary Club, Kiwanis Club, and Chamber of Commerce etc. They are always looking for speakers at their breakfast or luncheon meetings. Collect cards and email addresses and send them a flyer they can forward easily by email. C) If school is in session, get me in front of the teachers for lunch or at 3pm when school is out for a 20-minute preview of the night's meeting. Have flyers with you and pass them out after the preview. The teachers will give them to the students and the students will give them to the parents. Collect email addresses and send them a flyer they can forward by email. D) If you have a free room and you have three meetings, one on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday you will get roll up. Bring flyers to the Tuesday meeting for people to give to their friends for Wednesday and Thursday. Bring flyers for Wednesday to give to people for Thursday. Get everyone's email address from the survey forms and have someone email everyone who was at the meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday a flyer to forward to their friends. E) Get me a meeting with the Governor, Mayor, School Superintendent, Senator or Congressman of that area. Show them the DVD of me speaking before the Minnesota House of Representatives Education Committee for validation. Get that from Dupli-pack at 888-443-1979 for 10 bucks. F) Think big, what ADD conventions are coming? Teacher's conventions? Counselor conventions? I spoke in front of 5,000 people at the Arkansas Counseling Association meeting in January of 2002 and was a huge hit, get the testimony from the ACA on my website under window #5. I also spoke at the 97th annual Massachusetts State PTA meeting, use that as well. 2. The rooms you rent. These should be from a hospital, school auditorium, church, community center etc. The Results Project is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) corporation Tax ID is FEIN: 58-2085326 which is also at the top of the web page. This should get you free rooms. If you book the meeting at a library, bookstore or coffee shop, it will appear small and you'll get a low turnout. At the hospital you call and ask if you can book an "In Service" seminar and they'll give you the room for free and the people who work there also go free but you get a free room. This way you don't have to pay for the room out of your pocket. GETTING A HOSPITAL by Judith Vandermost A. Call the main # and ask for Administration ("Could you please tell me the extension # of Administration and would you connect me please"). B. "Hello, my name is _______ and I represent the Results Project of __________ we work with children with learning and behavioral challenges especially ADD/ADHD. The founder of this program will be in this area in ___________ and I would like to book your meeting room for an in-service on _______ could you tell me who I should speak with and could you connect me please." C. Make sure you get the name and extension of the person you will be dealing with. "Hello, my name is __________ and I represent the Results Project of ___________ we work with children with learning and behavioral challenges especially ADD/ADHD. The founder of this program will be in this area in __________ and I would like to book your meeting room for an in-service on _________ I will (have) been booking him at other hospitals in the area. His name is Steve Plog. He himself is ADHD and he talks about the positives of ADD/ADHD. As a matter of fact his seminar is called "Why I Love My ADD!" D. Wait for a response, listen and answer all questions. Make sure you are very familiar with the program so you can answer the questions with conviction. Do not be too wordy. Do not go into a long explanation, they are too busy. Just give the basic details and the web site. E. Offer to send a flyer and request that you would appreciate this being circulated throughout the hospital (doctor's and nurse's lounge) as the staff is very welcome. F. You need to mention that you are a grass roots, nonprofit organization and as such, do not have any funds available to rent the facilities. G. You must also ask for an overhead and screen to be set up, or if they're not available, permission to bring your own. H. You must also ask how many the room holds. I. You must also ask for the room to be set up the way you want. (classroom style, no tables) J. You must also tell them that you will be asking for a $10 donation to help cover the travel expenses of the speaker. K. When you get the permission, thank them very much and hang up. L. Call back to the hospital and get the complete address. Send a thank you letter immediately. This will serve as a confirmation. M. Draft a letter to send the day after Steve's presentation with thanks and how many people were in attendance. They like these stats. 3. Take the "Letter of Endorsement" to your mayor, board of education, school superintendent, local principals, teachers, counselors, well known health professionals and get them to publicly endorse the idea's, intentions, and concepts of the program. Show them the "Letter of Endorsement" and ask them to sign it (first retype it and fill it out in their name so it doesn't look like a form letter) or to make one up their selves so you can add their name to the bottom of your flyer. The bottom of your flyer you should have: Endorsed by: and a list of name below 4. Free PR on Radio, TV and Newspapers. The information in window #4 in the coordinator section is a $400 manual on "How to get free Radio publicity." But it also works for TV and Newspapers. The PR kit in window #3 in the coordinators section is what you mail out when you get someone who's interested. When pitching the media remember they like a new slant or angle on a popular subject. ADD is popular and the message is, "Steve loves his ADD!" While everyone else is suffering from their ADD, Steve is showing them how to enjoy their ADD and excel using the gifts in it. If they say they've already done a segment on ADD, ask them, "Did your story cover how to deal with the problem and help kids who are suffering with ADD?" Tell them this is another point of view they've never covered. When it comes to media and a new idea, nobody wants to be first, everyone wants to be second and nobody wants to be last. Once you get me an interview with anyone, be it radio, TV or newspaper. Tell the next one you call, "We've booked Steve for an interview with (XYZ) on Monday, can we get him with you on Tuesday?" They'll want me if the other station has already booked me. Nobody wants to get scooped. If you get me booked on the morning show, ask who the afternoon show host is and get me booked with the same station later in the day. Send info to the program director, the program producer and the show host for both the morning and the afternoon shows. Drop them off personally. Media will make a big difference in attendance. Also a great place to get PR is in the church bulletin. Be sure to quote where Ritalin is in the Bible when you do. Rev. 18:23 - The merchants of the world will deceive the nations through their sorcery. (Original Greek word is Pharmakeia) Make a small flyer that fits into the bulletin and drop off as many as they pass out at church. 5. Don't do this by yourself! Get a team together of at least 3 or 4 people. Make sure you know why you're doing this. When Steve comes to town children leave the seminar feeling better about themselves THAT NIGHT. When they get into the program their lives will change forever. If that's why you're doing it, welcome to the family. Having a new contact is a great side effect, Ok? Read everything on the website in the coordinator section. Know your program. 6. Establish yourself in your town. Call the local phone company and tell them you want to add one name to your existing phone number. You can have two listings for one number. Get a second listing as "Results Project" so anyone looking for you can find you. This should be a long-term commitment to get involved with your community and establish you as a Results Project coordinator in your area. This is not a one-time deal. Successful coordinators are now getting calls from parents after they've done 2 or 3 programs who have been referred by teachers or counselors who told them, "Call the Results Project people, they can help" and that's what you're looking for. Establish yourself! 7. Find out the local school directory in your area and put an ad in there. They will have a listing of all the schools in the area in one book and that book has ads for treatment centers and therapist in them. Get your name in there as the Results Project coordinator in your area. This ad will be in there all year and it's cheap. When the schools ask, "Who are you?" Tell them to go to page whatever and look you up in the school directory on their desk. Don't list yourself as a "Treatment Center" that's what doctors do, treat symptoms. Make yourself stand out! Talk about "solutions" and "attributes" not "treatment" for ADD. 8. Set up one phone number for all contacts to call into. Make this an 800 if possible, but have it go into a voicemail system not an answering machine when someone is on the phone or not home. Answering machine's can only take one call at a time and if you're on the phone and another call comes in the machine can't take it. Have Steve in the meeting room a full 30 minutes before it starts. That means he's standing in the meeting room 30 minutes before it starts not circling the block still trying to find the place. No more lost directions, you will have to drive there yourself once before and see the place and then drive Steve to a place you've already been. Double check who has the key to get into the building if it's after closing time. No more parking lot seminars, OK? After you book the room go there and "see it" at the time of day the meeting will start and ask yourself this question, "If I was ADD could I get lost trying to find this room at night?" Then get enough signs and balloons to point the way. Also find out how many different parking lots there are and how many ways into the building and ask yourself, "If I was ADD could I get lost?" Make sure the receptionist taking the phone calls for that building has a flyer sitting at her desk all week so she knows what's going on. Call during the week and ask if anyone has called about the meeting. Coordinators are also encouraged to make the statement (so as to not get major backlash and attacked by doctors or media) that we are not against medication but that we are against OVER MEDICATION. The official statement on this is, "If you need a drug you should take it. If you do not need a drug, you should not take it. We're going to be looking at need based on lab tests, not visual or written evaluations. The intent is to discuss the four-step program: 1) Looking at the positives of ADD and raising kids self esteem (Teaching and learning "ADD Style"). 2) Eliminating foods that may cause ADD symptoms and may be allergic to. 3) Water 4) Lab Tests using evidence based medicine for diagnosis and treatment by a doctor. 9. All letters that go out to the media, schools, children's organizations, etc. should be signed by the coordinator. 10. The coordinator is expected to be at all functions with Steve, collect the money from the door, sell his video's and present the money to Steve at the end of the meeting. 11. The coordinator is responsible for the parent's follow up meetings and assigning the parents to a team member for follow up. This is the time to bond and build relationships. 12. The coordinator is to gather all surveys as we will be signing them up for $199 right there and then in the meeting. 13. All "Self-Reported Symptoms Forms" will to be turned into the coordinator at regular intervals so they may be documented at the end of the program. One at the beginning, one at 30 days, 60 days and 90 days, for a total of 4 forms. 14. The team members may want to meet on a regular basis with the coordinator to discuss the project and results. 15. What is said to parents about the company, products and what happens after the project is over MUST be consistent. This is very important to the success of all and any project both now and in the future. These and other issues are to be agreed upon as the team comes together to plan a Results Project. No business cards, name badges, company literature or company name is to be promoted on or at ANY Results Project meetings, including following someone out to the parking lot! Where to get paid $10 for new leads. This is what any Results Project Coordinator can do themselves. Contact ChADD at http://www.chadd.org/ or call them on the toll free 800-233-4050 and tell them you want to be the ChADD coordinator for your area. If they say your town is taken, then find someone in your downline that lives in the next city over and use them. You will send them $45 to become a member of ChADD, when you get accepted as the ChADD coordinator in your area, (they accept everyone) you will then start to receive $10 from everyone new who joins ChADD in your area. ChADD will send you $10 and the contact information. You hold free meetings once or twice a month. You can not sell anything at the meetings. Nothing! But you can refer them to lab testing, nutrient depletion side effects, toxic metal symptoms, etc. ChADD says they are a resource and reference referral service only. I now have 500 contact names, numbers and email from the last 4 years of ChADD meetings in Vegas. That's 500 families looking for solutions to them or their kids having ADD! As the new head of ChADD all the schools are welcoming me with open arms into their schools. All the mental health facilities are gladly setting up appointments with me. Churches, hospitals, city and state police are meeting with me! How would you like to have hundreds of leads pay you $10 to get information? If you have any questions call Steve at 702-341-0614 or email him at addsteve@cox.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/coordinator_resultsproject.net/attachments/20060110/36b589d7/attachment-0001.htm From Coordinator at resultsproject.net Tue Jan 10 17:07:18 2006 From: Coordinator at resultsproject.net (Coordinator@resultsproject.net) Date: Tue Jan 10 18:50:30 2006 Subject: [Coordinator] (no subject) Message-ID: Source: http://news.monstersandcritics.com/lifestyle/consumerhealth/article_1074612. php/Ped_Med_Young_minds_under_attack Ped Med: Young minds under attack By Lidia Wasowicz Jan 9, 2006, 22:46 GMT SAN FRANCISCO, CA, United States (UPI) -- Something`s rotten in the state of our children`s mental health. Mind-boggling trends are snaking their way into the record books, rattling the nation with reams of reports of nearly 14 million youngsters, some of them barely out of diapers, beset by a plethora of psychiatric disturbances. In the absence of an objective medical or scientific test for their presence, and with bottom-line limits on access to specialists suited to make an often-difficult call, questions arise about the accuracy of and uniformity in detecting many of the emotional, mental and behavioral disorders springing onto pediatric patient charts. The extent of missed diagnosis -- and its fallout -- remains largely conjecture, but few could argue current methods of separating the sick from the well are error-free. The fault line seems to run on either side of the diagnostic fence, cracking with both overstatements and underestimates. As one example, phenomenal spikes in the use of mind-altering drugs in children -- which skyrocketed 700 percent during the 1990s for behavioral conditions alone -- and widely varying treatment rates -- from 17 percent in Virginia to 3 percent in Utah for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD -- have led some skeptics to suspect a case of over-diagnosis. On the other side of the diagnostic couch, investigations point to a latent laxness. Take a study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry in October 2005 that showed a mental disturbance was assessed only half the time in people ages 7 to 24 rushed to the hospital emergency department for self-inflicted injuries between 1997 and 2002. The findings bring to light 'substantial under-recognition of mental illness and likely inadequate referral for follow-up mental healthcare,' the authors suggested. They called for additional research to illuminate the scope and cause of the shortcomings. The urgency of following through was underscored with further analysis, which revealed a 22-fold leap in subsequent suicide rates among adolescent boys who on a previous occasion had deliberately ingested poison. Adding to the pile of concerns, evidence mounts of inadequate or inappropriate treatment. As uncounted numbers of children are doled out drugs -- or doses -- they may not need, those requiring relief too often are left out in the therapeutic cold, the non-profit advocacy group Consumers Union reports in an evaluation of prescription drugs used to treat ADHD. The report was released in late 2005. In a twist, the risk -- though flowing from divergent directions -- seems to transcend the economic divide. 'Inner-city children tend to be undertreated and not have access to mental healthcare facilities while in the wealthier suburban children, the drugs might be overused, and even in those communities there is a lack of specialty providers,' says Donna Palumbo, associate professor of neurology and pediatrics. She is also director of the Strong Neurology ADHD Program, head of pediatric neuropsychology training at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in Rochester, N.Y., and principal investigator on a major, government-funded study of ADHD diagnosis and treatment in preschoolers. Data are elusive on the number of children affected, but a clue emerges from a number of studies. For example, a North Carolina survey of pediatricians showed a mere 2 percent of the estimated 6 million youngsters with significant emotional and behavioral disorders are seen by mental-health specialists. Another study, by Northwestern University researchers, found of 4,939 disabled children with psychosocial problems, including depression, anxiety and hostility, only 42 percent received the services they required. Other research raises concern among critics that even among the experts, there may be overzealous use of the prescription pad. For example, reports published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2000 and 2004 showed a mushrooming use in children as young as 2 of anti-depressants, which have been linked to increased risk of suicidal behavior in some adolescents, and other psychiatric drugs. Few such medicines have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in children, and there is a paucity of studies showing their long-term effects on growing bodies and developing brains. The risk of unwanted consequences is elevated by economic pressures that have shriveled the forces of specialists and the time allotted doctors for visits with and follow-up of their young patients. A study published in Pediatrics in September 2004 notes the average pediatric visit lasts 13 minutes. 'This country is in a crisis when it comes to children`s mental healthcare,' proclaims pediatric psychopharmacologist Ronald Brown. He is dean of the College of Health Professions, professor of public health, psychology and pediatrics at Temple University Health Sciences Center in Philadelphia and author of 'Medications for Children: A Guide for the Practitioner' (Guilford Press). 'It`s been a real issue, it`s been ignored, and it needs to be dealt with,' Brown asserts. UPI Health News welcomes comments on this column. E-mail: lwasowicz@upi.com Copyright 2006 by United Press International -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/coordinator_resultsproject.net/attachments/20060110/a4e2f930/attachment.htm From Coordinator at resultsproject.net Wed Jan 11 23:06:49 2006 From: Coordinator at resultsproject.net (Coordinator@resultsproject.net) Date: Wed Jan 11 23:24:34 2006 Subject: [Coordinator] ADHD Benefits Children Message-ID: ADHD Benefits Children (openPR) - (Washington, D.C.) January 11, 2006 ADHD should be welcomed, cultivated and celebrated-not dreaded and eliminated-because it imparts children with advantageous qualities society needs. Recent research demonstrates that individuals with ADHD possess many superior traits necessary for extraordinary achievements in the arts, sciences and business. Schools reward those who are compliant, attentive and methodical. But children with ADHD are the creative innovators like iPod inventor Steve Jobs; passionate, intuitive feelers such as Bono and Johnny Depp who thrive as performing artists; visionaries like Richard Branson whose energy, persistence and willingness to challenge the norm lead to breakthroughs in science and technology. Kirk Martin, Founder of a leading educational organization, Celebrate!ADHD, asserts the following: ? Children with ADHD possess superior traits their peers do not possess. ? Society desperately needs the energy, creativity, imagination, vision, passion and persistence that only children with ADHD possess. ? Kids with ADHD don't need to be changed - Celebrate ADHD has witnessed an 85% reduction in use of Ritalin by working with a child's nature instead of against it. ? The best writers, directors, actors, musicians and inventors have ADHD - eradicate ADHD and you may as well shut down Blockbuster, Barnes & Noble and Best Buy. History validates these assertions. Edison, Monet, Disney, Pasteur, Spielberg and countless world-changing trailblazers have shared the defining characteristics of ADHD. ?Rather than try to change our kids to be like everyone else, we need to equip them to use their gifts and talents to help others,? Martin says. That means reaching and teaching children with ADHD differently. Kids with ADHD are experiential, hands-on doers. They prefer action to listening, experimenting to studying. Celebrate!ADHD is helping design the nation's first School of Creativity and Entrepreneurship, dedicated to cultivating each child's natural gifts, talents and passions. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/coordinator_resultsproject.net/attachments/20060111/8f58917e/attachment-0001.htm From Coordinator at resultsproject.net Wed Jan 11 23:16:29 2006 From: Coordinator at resultsproject.net (Coordinator@resultsproject.net) Date: Wed Jan 11 23:24:35 2006 Subject: [Coordinator] Health matters: Many students take meds during school Message-ID: January 11, 2006 Last modified January 11, 2006 - 12:30 am Health matters: Many students take meds during school Vicki Olson Johnson -- HEALTH MATTERS Can you imagine sending your medication-dependent child to school with his prescription in a plastic baggie? It happens more often than most people think. One incident involved medication sent to school in a plastic baggie that wasn't the child's, but Valium belonging to the child's parent. Luckily, the school nurse intervened in time. For a variety of medical ailments, an increasing number of kids rely on prescription medications every day. Parents can remind children to take medication at home, but who is there to remind children to it at school? What assurances do parents have that once at school, their child will be medicated at the appropriate time with the appropriate prescribed dose of medication? What about possible side-effects of medications? These are all appropriate questions to ask when sending your child to school with medication. Some kids are only able to attend school because of joint medication management by parents and schools. Some schools are fortunate in having a school nurse onsite to assist, but others rely on educators to fill this role. If a school nurse is onsite, they will often train and delegate a child's medication management. Working together in the school environment, nurses and educators try to ensure a child on medication has a safe plan in place for receiving it. Growing numbers of children suffer from insulin-dependent diabetes, ADHD, asthma, allergies and depression. The diagnosis of depression in United States kids from 1995 to 2002 has doubled. These conditions may also need life-saving interventions while a child is at school. Recently, while at school, a student with asthma had a severe attack. This child's inhaler was at home, with no backup inhaler as requested. This crisis had a good outcome, but far too often they do not. If your child requires medication management at school, here are some important factors to consider: 1. Does the school have designated staff members who consistently assist with the school's daily medication regime? Does that person sign off on individual student records stating the medication was given and taken as prescribed? 2. Has medication management training been provided and is it monitored on an ongoing basis? Are there medical personnel nearby to answer questions? 3. As a parent, have you signed permission forms with the current and correct dosage information for your child? Has the physician signed written orders? 4. At the school, are children's medications stored in a clean, locked cabinet? 5. If your child needs an inhaler, do he carry it at all times? Does the school nurse have an extra in case of emergencies and for ongoing training instruction for the inhaler? 6. Does your allergic child carry her/his own EpiPen? Do they know how to use it or is there someone available who can administer the medication? 7. Do you have a backup medication plan with several people who could assist? 8. Only send medication to school in a pharmacy-labeled bottle. If not, and a parent permission form to administer medication is not signed, the medication will not be given. 9. Parents should bring their child's medication to school to ensure that it gets to the school. 10. The Five Rights of Medication Administration are: "Right Patient, Right Route, Right Dose, Right Time and Right Medication." As more children rely on prescription drugs, parents and schools must work together to ensure plans are developed to deal with medication emergencies. School nurses can be very helpful in the development of a plan. Working together, we can do our best to keep our children safe. Vicki Olson Johnson, RN, BSN is the program manager for the Yellowstone City-County Health Department's School Nurse Program. She can be reached at 247-3367 or vickij@ycchd.org. Copyright ? The Billings Gazette, a division of Lee Enterprises. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/coordinator_resultsproject.net/attachments/20060111/0570903a/attachment-0001.htm From Coordinator at resultsproject.net Sun Jan 15 17:09:21 2006 From: Coordinator at resultsproject.net (Coordinator@resultsproject.net) Date: Sun Jan 15 17:18:06 2006 Subject: [Coordinator] Nurses Win Decision on Mandatory Flu Vaccination Message-ID: <7.0.0.15.2.20060115150616.021da278@cox.net> All: I think this (below) may have just set legal precedent. If so, well won't Mr. Frist and the rest of Congress be surprised at what has just happened, and just upset their recent decision "apple cart". In the words of Gomer Pyle... "surprise, surprise, surprise". SANITY PREVAILS, I never thought I'd say THANK GOD for a Judge. Gary Bell Futrhse@sbcglobal.net ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) Promoting Openness, Full Disclosure, and Accountability www.ahrp.org FYI The right to voluntary, informed consent is an inalienable human right. One must always beware of forced medical interventions! Stop and ask, why would anyone have to be forced to accept a medical intervention of proven safety and efficay? Registered nurses are not morons--no one had to force a nurse to take an antibiotic when needed-- The flu vaccine is controversial, NOT a proven safe and effective remedy. Understandably, therefore, the nurses said no to a mandatory policy. Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav 212-595-8974 veracare@ahrp.org http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060106/sff021.html?.v=34 Friday January 6, 9:00 am ET Press Release Source: Washington State Nurses Association Nurses Win Federal Court Decision on Virginia Mason's Mandatory Flu Vaccination Policy SEATTLE, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States District Court ruled in favor of the Washington State Nurses Association (WSNA), representing more than 600 registered nurses at Virginia Mason Medical Center (VMMC), in upholding the arbitrator's decision's against VMMC which stopped the hospital from forcing RNs to receive flu shots. The decision by the United States District Court denied VMMC's motion challenging the arbitrator's decision, which would have allowed the hospital to make flu shots a condition of employment and fire RNs who did not comply. The Court decision "did not find that the arbitrator's decision is procedurally defective" thereby upholding the arbitrator's award by denying the VMMC's appeal. WSNA absolutely supports the flu vaccination and in fact strongly encourages nurses to get them. But, it does oppose any health care facility threatening to fire people if they do not submit to the mandatory vaccination, especially in the absence of a declared public health emergency and a recommendation for mandatory vaccination by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. "This decision confirms the arbitrator's ruling and prevents VMMC from forcing RNs to get a flu vaccination against their will. It's a basic right for people to make decisions regarding their own health care treatment . As health care professionals, nurses know that education, accessibility and incentives -- not brute force -- are the best way to encourage people to comply," said Barbara Frye, RN, Director of Labor Relations at WSNA. 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URL: /pipermail/coordinator_resultsproject.net/attachments/20060115/512edc07/attachment.htm From Coordinator at resultsproject.net Mon Jan 16 18:43:55 2006 From: Coordinator at resultsproject.net (Coordinator@resultsproject.net) Date: Sun Jan 22 08:32:53 2006 Subject: [Coordinator] Report gives food for thought Message-ID: Source: http://news.monstersandcritics.com/health/article_1076442.php/Report_gives_f ood_for_thought Health News Report gives food for thought Jan 16, 2006, 11:34 GMT Changes in eating habits and farming methods over the last 50 years may be responsible for the rise in mental health problems in the UK, a new report has claimed. The Mental Health Foundation and food campaign group Sustain claim unbalanced, less nutritious diets have led to an increase in cases of depression, schizophrenia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and Alzheimer's disease. One of the most important findings of the report was a drop in intake by most people of omega-3 fatty acids ? so-called 'good fats' that can be found in oily fish and nuts - and an increase in the eating of foods containing omega-6 fatty acids, or 'bad fats'. But the report says that it is not only what we eat, but how it is produced that can also harm our health. Due to changes in the way food is made and manufactured, the amount of essential fats, vitamins and minerals have been reduced and the balance of nutrients has been disturbed, according to the research. During the last 50 years the British population has gradually eaten less fresh produce and more saturated fats and sugars, all of which is said to be taking its toll on physical, as well as mental health. Dr Andrew McCulloch, chief executive of the Mental Health Foundation, said that although more research was needed into the effects of food on the brain, the risk of poor health as a result of unhealthy eating habits could not be ignored. He said: 'We are well aware the effect of diet upon out physical health, but we are only just beginning to understand how the brain, as an organ, is influenced by the nutrients it derives from the foods we eat, and how our diets have impact on our mental health. He added that the government could not ignore the 'growing burden' of poor mental health in the UK. The cost of poor mental to the UK has been estimated at ?100 million. The report, Feeding Minds, pointed out that industrialised farming had made the use of pesticides more widespread and had altered the body fat composition of animals, making it higher than before. The research revealed that chickens reach their slaughter weight twice as fast as they did 30 years ago, increasing their fat content to a fifth from two per cent to 22 per cent. Sustain and the Mental Health Foundation have urged people to adopt healthier diets, eat more fresh vegetables, fruit and fish and have also called on the government to increase awareness of the link between poor diet and poor health. The report found there has been a 34 per cent decline in vegetable consumption and a 59 per cent drop in fish intake in the last 60 years. Only 13 per cent of men and 15 per cent of women eat at least five portions of fresh fruits and vegetables every day, according to the report. Courtney Van de Weyer, researcher on the Feeding Minds campaign at Sustain said: 'The good news is that the diet for a healthy mind is the same as the diet for a healthy body. 'The bad news is that , unless there is a radical overhaul of food and farming policies - particularly on fish - there won't be healthy and nutritious foods available in the future for people to eat now.' ? 2006 Adfero Ltd. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/coordinator_resultsproject.net/attachments/20060116/9018dff0/attachment-0001.htm From Coordinator at resultsproject.net Tue Jan 17 18:15:00 2006 From: Coordinator at resultsproject.net (Coordinator@resultsproject.net) Date: Sun Jan 22 08:32:54 2006 Subject: [Coordinator] Mental illness linked to diet Message-ID: Does it seem strange that these findings are coming from the UK and Australia and not from the USA. Considering the leverage the Big Pharmaceutical companies have on the AMA, APA and worst of all the FDA, and how each all fight nutritional supplement companies, maybe it shouldn't be. Here's more of the latest research showing that the Results Project has been on the cutting edge of recognizing the CAUSES for sysmptoms associated with ADHD as well as many other so-called mental and behavioral disorders since its inception in 1997. It would seem more and more of the latest research proves that these "disorders" are nothing more than the results of poor nutrition, poor dicisions about contaminating or food supply with dangerous chemicals and poor food handling procedures such as picking fruits and vegetables while green, before they reach full maturity and are ripe. Webmaster Bob Source: http://www.news-medical.net/?id=15418 News-Medical.net - Sydney,Australia News-Medical.Net Mental illness linked to diet Medical Research News Published: Tuesday, 17-Jan-2006 According to new research released this week, mental health is linked to diet and changes to diets over the last 50 years may hold the key to the rise of mental illness. The findings support a growing body of evidence that food can have an effect upon a person's mental health and behaviour that is both immediate and long lasting because of the way it affects the structure and function of the brain. Food campaigners Sustain and the Mental Health Foundation say the way food is now produced has altered the balance of the key nutrients people consume. The report 'Feeding Minds', published by the Mental Health Foundation (MHF) and Sustain, suggests that some foods damage the brain by releasing toxins or oxidants that harm healthy brain cells. It says that an unbalanced diet that fails to include adequate amounts of complex carbohydrates, essential fats, amino acids, vitamins and minerals and water can lead to mental ill-health. Over the last five decades the UK population has eaten less fresh food and more saturated fats and sugars, this say the researchers leads to depression and memory problems. However not all experts agree and some regard the research as inconclusive, while others agree that diet has an affect on physical health. Some experts say that addressing mental health problems with changes in diet was showing better results in some cases than using drugs or counselling. The report says the balance of minerals, vitamins and essential fats consumed has changed in the past five decades. According to the researchers the industrialisation of farming has introduced pesticides and has altered the body fat composition of many animals due to the diet they are now fed. As an example, the report points out that chickens reach their slaughter weight twice as fast as they did 30 years ago, increasing the fat content from 2% to 22%. Their diet has also altered the balance of vital fatty acids omega-3 and omega-6 in chickens, which the brain needs to ensure it functions properly. In direct contrast, consumption of saturated fats has steadily increased with the availability of readymade meals and access to fast food; saturated fats are known to slow down the brain's working process. The researchers say that unequal intakes of the two different types of fat are implicated in mental health problems, and suggest that the Western diet now includes too much omega-6 and insufficient omega-3. The report says people are now eating 34% less vegetables and two-thirds less fish, the main source of omega-3 fatty acids, than they were 50 years ago. The study says such changes could be linked to depression, schizophrenia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and Alzheimer's disease. They urge people to adopt healthier diets, with more fresh vegetables, fruit and fish, and are calling on the government to raise awareness about the issue. The report makes 14 key recommendations aimed at government departments and a range of other stakeholders which are in line with recommendations for good health advocated by all health professionals. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/coordinator_resultsproject.net/attachments/20060117/5241408b/attachment-0001.htm From Coordinator at resultsproject.net Sat Jan 21 18:10:42 2006 From: Coordinator at resultsproject.net (Coordinator@resultsproject.net) Date: Sun Jan 22 08:32:55 2006 Subject: [Coordinator] VITAMIN THERAPY CENSORSHIP Message-ID: This is a very long, multi-part article from Dr. Saul's Doctoryourself.com website. But you will find it very enlightening and even scary. It talks about one big reason why your doctor probably knows little or nothing about the vast amount of research documenting the scientifically proven value of vitamin and nutritional therapy to your physical and mental health. Worst of all, it talks about a US Government funded organizations blatant bias that can easily be seen as pro-drug/anti natural healing. I've highlighted some important fatcs in Bolded Red. Webmaster Bob Source: http://doctoryourself.com/medline.html It's real, and it's in America right now. The taxpayer-funded US National Library of Medicine still refuses to index the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine on MEDLINE, even though the Journal has published the work of Linus Pauling and other major orthomolecular (megavitamin nutrition) scientists for nearly forty years. Censorship of Vitamin Therapy Research by the U.S. National Library of Medicine Did you know that there are "good" medical journals, and that there are "naughty" journals? No kidding. The good journals are easy to access on the internet through a huge electronic database called Medline (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi) This wonderful, free service is brought to you by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. In other words, by you. By your tax dollars. Generally it is money well spent, until you go a-searching for megavitamin therapy research papers. Then you will find that you can't find all of them. That is because of selective indexing. Medline chooses journals to index based on criteria that they publish but will not discuss. As evidence, here is a copy of my recent letter to them: To: Subject: Listing or Indexing of a Journal Dear Sir/Ma'am, I have used Medline for years, and it is a truly invaluable research tool. I have observed that the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, continuously published since 1967, is not indexed, listed nor otherwise cited or available on Medline. May I ask what would perhaps disqualify this particular Journal from inclusion in the Medline database? Here is the reply I got back from the National Library of Medicine: "Dear Dr. Saul: "The Literature Selection Technical Review Committee makes decisions about the inclusion of journals in Medline. Our Fact Sheet with FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) about inclusion in MEDLINE and thus in PubMed will be found at this URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/j_sel_faq.html "A more specific Fact Sheet for journal selection will be found at this different site: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/jsel.html . "Thank you for your interest in our National Library of Medicine products." (Clerk's name, deleted by the Newsletter) NIH Contractor Customer Service National Library of Medicine 8600 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20894 custserv@nlm.nih.gov The following text was appended to the response I received: "The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is the largest medical library in the world. The goal of the NLM is to collect, organize and make available biomedical literature to advance medical science and improve public health." I see. Collect. Organize. Make available. Improve public health. So, AFTER 36 CONSECUTIVE YEARS OF PUBLICATION, why is the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine NOT indexed by Medline? Although a similar leading-edge nutrition-friendly journal, Medical Hypotheses, is indexed, the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine is not. This decision is the work of a National Library of Medicine "Literature Selection Technical Review Committee," which apparently declined to comment. What are the consequences of such exclusion? In a nutshell, it stops the public from using their computers to learn about all of the scientific research and clinical reports demonstrating the effectiveness of megavitamin (orthomolecular) therapy. It also greatly hampers professionals from seeing pro-vitamin studies. Have you ever wondered why your doctor simply does not know about vitamin therapy? Well, wonder no longer. He or she can't read what isn't "collected," electronically indexed, or otherwise "made available" to them. If the vast majority of journals indexed by Medline are pharmaceutical-friendly, and yet nutritional research is censored, what do you expect? My website, book (http://www.doctoryourself.com/saulbooks.html ) and this Newsletter are not called Doctor Yourself for nothing. We have no choice. If we want to know, we have to learn for ourselves. Your taxes should be helping you do so, and not paying a closed-doors bureaucracy to decide what should (or should not) be "collected" and "made available" to "improve public health." Here is a current example of vital research that Medline does in fact choose to index: PIZZA PREVENTS HEART ATTACKS Gallus S, Tavani A, Vecchia CL. Pizza and risk of acute myocardial infarction. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2004 May 12. "OBJECTIVES: Pizza eating has been favourably related to the risk of cardiovascular disease, but the data are limited. To evaluate the potential role of pizza consumption on the risk of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), we considered data from an Italian study. DESIGN: We conducted a hospital-based case-control study on 507 cases of nonfatal AMI and 478 controls in Milan, Italy, between 1995 and 1999. RESULTS: The multivariate odds ratios were 0.78 for occasional, 0.62 for regular and 0.44 for frequent eaters. The estimates were similar across strata of age, sex, smoking and other major covariates. CONCLUSIONS: Some of the ingredients of pizza have been shown to have a favourable influence on the risk of cardiovascular disease. However, there is no single explanation for the present findings. Pizza may in fact represent a general indicator of Italian diet, that has been shown to have potential cardiovascular benefits." If that impressed you, you will also surely want to know about this: PIZZA PREVENTS CANCER Gallus S, Bosetti C, Negri E, Talamini R, Montella M, Conti E, Franceschi S, La Vecchia C. Does pizza protect against cancer? Int J Cancer. 2003 Nov 1;107(2):283-4. "We analyzed the potential role of pizza on cancer risk, using data from an integrated network of case-control studies conducted in Italy between 1991 and 2000. Cancer sites were: oral cavity and pharynx (598 cases), esophagus (304 cases), larynx (460 cases), colon (1,225 cases) and rectum (728 cases). Controls were 4,999 patients admitted for acute, non- neoplastic conditions to the same hospital network as cases. Odds ratios for regular pizza consumers were 0.66 (95% confidence interval, CI = 0.47-0.93) for oral and pharyngeal cancer, 0.41 (95% CI = 0.25-0.69) for oesophageal, 0.82 (95% CI = 0.56-1.19) for laryngeal, 0.74 (95% CI = 0.61-0.89) for colon and 0.93 (95% CI = 0.75-1.17) for rectal cancer. Pizza appears therefore to be a favorable indicator of risk for digestive tract neoplasms in this population." But be careful of that olive oil, mate! Of course, this particular Medline- approved entry is not from Italy: Wong GA, King CM. Occupational allergic contact dermatitis from olive oil in pizza making. Contact Dermatitis. 2004 Feb;50(2):102-3. (Department of Dermatology, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, UK.) MORE PIZZA Here is my all-time favorite: yet another article that Medline actually is indexing. It is not even from a medical journal. I am not making its mile- long title up, either. It is there at Medline, right now, just a few clicks away from you: Simon HB. My husband subscribes to Harvard Men's Health Watch, but I read it even more than he does. I hope you can help us resolve a disagreement. He wants to have pizza two to three times a week for his prostate, but I don't think it's a healthy food. Who is right? (Harvard Men's Health Watch. 2003 Jun;7(11):8.) In fact, when I did a search at Medline for "pizza," I got 435 responses. Man, there is scientific argument over literally anything. I am proud (as well as relieved) to be the first to tell you that the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine has not published a single article on pizza. At least so far. Maybe if it did, it would make the cut at Medline. Medline also indexes an item entitled: "I am a 71-year-old diabetic, and I've had trouble with my erections for seven or eight years. At first the problem was mild, but it's been getting worse. My doctor gave me a prescription for Viagra, but it didn't help. I tried two pills at once without any luck, but I did get a mild headache. Can I use three pills?" (Harvard Men's Health Watch. 2003 Sep;8(2):8.) Surely the very name "Harvard" is enough to get your foot inside the Medline door. That, or "everything but anchovies." The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine has a review board of medical doctors and university- and hospital-based researchers. Since 1967, it has published over 600 papers by renowned authors including Roger J. Williams, Emanuel Cheraskin, Carl C. Pfeiffer and Nobel prize winner Linus Pauling. (http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_JOM.html ) You should be able to access abstracts (concise summaries) of these papers, instantly and for free, via Medline. Well, you can't. Perhaps you'd like to write to Medline and tell them what you think: custserv@nlm.nih.gov And when you are done with both your pizza and your Viagra, would you please share any letters you may receive with me at drsaul@doctoryourself.com ? [This article, written by Andrew W. Saul, originally appeared in The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER, Vol. 4, No. 14, June 20, 2004. It is archived at http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n14.txt ] Part 2: JUST WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT, ANYWAY? The Smithsonian Institution's United States National Tick Collection, with over one million tick specimens, makes it, quite understandably, the world's largest. On the other hand, the world's largest medical library, the U. S. National Library of Medicine, does not see fit to index the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine. Why? Is it really a matter of funds? The National Museum of American History is spending $18 million to "clean and conserve" the 1814 "Star Spangled Banner" flag that flew over Fort McHenry. (Smithsonian magazine, June 2004, p 59.) That's eighteen MILLION dollars. What, exactly, would be the cost to index one additional medical journal? The U.S. government lets the U.S. Forest Service sell the public's forests to private lumber corporations at a $2 billion annual loss to the taxpayer. This is, of course, the same government that gave the nuclear power industry over $40 billion since 1948, according to the Multinational Monitor (http://multinationalmonitor.org) Medline is self-described as "the NLM's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,800 biomedical journals . . . The database contains over 12 million citations dating back to the mid-1960's." Just how hard would it really be for the National Library of Medicine to electronically index one more scientific journal on Medline, for the public's benefit? And doesn't the government owe the public full disclosure of all new nutritional research that can help people, including what is published in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine? Politicized science and research cover-ups hurt citizens. The U. S. General Accounting Office has stated that over 500,000 Americans were "used as subjects in Cold War era radiation, biological and chemical experiments sponsored by the federal government," often without their consent. (Scripps Howard News Service, 29 Sept, 1994.) There is a terrible price to pay for secret agendas, selective science and information suppression. Medline, which formerly only went back to 1966, now provides an additional two million citations from medical journals all the way back to 1951. While in itself good news, it also more than suggests that the national Library of Medicine has the funding, personnel and capability to index the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine without further ado. The availability of "Old Medline," as it is nicknamed, now means that references to hundreds of scientific papers by vitamin discoverer Roger J. Williams, niacin psychiatrist Abram Hoffer, Professor of Oral Medicine Emanuel Cheraskin, and twice Nobel prize-winner Linus Pauling can now be electronically tapped from everywhere they published, for the last 55 years. . . with one conspicuous exception. Every word they ever wrote in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine remains excluded from indexed cyberspace. One can not help but wonder why an author's work is significant if published in one journal, but not even worth mentioning if published in another. The National Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine's Medline and Old Medline collectively form one of the world's truly splendid research tools. Going back to 1951 is a good idea. Why stop there? What about 36 consecutive years' worth of the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, as well as the current research it continues to publish even as you read this? As public libraries should be free to rich and poor alike, so public access to scientific knowledge should not be screened or censored. Science is neither a guild nor a members-only club. Or at least it shouldn't be any longer. TELL IT TO THE BOSS Many Newsletter readers have already written to Medline and received useless answers from government contractors. Well then, let's write to the top man. The Executive Editor of Medline is Mr. Sheldon Kotzin. His email address is kotzins@mail.nlm.nih.gov . Please send him a polite email requesting that he please include the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine in the MEDLINE database and index. Talking points: *The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine has been published for 36 consecutive years. * It has an editorial review board of physicians and university researchers. * The Journal has published papers by prominent scientists, including twice Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling. * Electronic indexing makes health information readily accessible to libraries and to the public. * Medline indexes over 4,800 journals, and has funds to reach all the way back to 1951. *Why, exactly, is the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine excluded? *Courteously ask for action, and for a response. I would very much appreciate it if you'd send me a copy of Mr. Kotzin's replies. My email is drsaul@doctoryourself.com . [This article, written by Andrew W. Saul, originally appeared in The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER, Vol. 4, No. 15, July 5, 2004. It is archived at http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n15.txt ] Part 3: UPDATE ON MEDLINE A special thank-you to all the many Doctor Yourself Newsletter readers who took the time to write to the National Library of Medicine to request that the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine be included in MEDLINE's electronic index. MEDLINE is like a "Google" of medical publications. I believe everyone should have internet access to all health research, not just some of it. The next question is, exactly who is deciding what you may or may not read? Most letters that readers sent to MEDLINE's Executive Editor, Sheldon Kotzin, received a form reply from a clerical assistant, saying only that: "Mr. Kotzin has received your recent email regarding the re-review of the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine for inclusion in MEDLINE. The National Library of Medicine uses an advisory committee to recommend journals to be indexed in MEDLINE. This journal will be scheduled for review at the next advisory committee meeting." We have reason to believe that the next advisory committee meeting and review is scheduled for October, 2004. But there are genuine problems with this quickie form-letter response. First, it does not tell us exactly why the Journal was previously refused. It is merely a promise of a re-review, whatever that may consist of. Second, who are the people on the mentioned advisory committee who actually perform the review? Who, exactly, are the persons empowered to decide for you what you may or may not access on MEDLINE, a taxpayer- supported service of the US Department of Health and Human Services/National Institutes of Health? What are the names, and professional qualifications (and professional affiliations) of the "Literature Selection Technical Review Committee" members? And, how are they selected, and who selects them? Are these petty, pesky questions, or do interested citizens have a right to know? Thinking it a good idea to try a direct follow-up with the top man, Medline Editor Mr. Kotzin, a number of people have already written back to . They wished to know: * What are the names of the members of the National Library of Medicine's journal-review advisory committee? * What are the specific grounds, particular to the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, that have previously disqualified it from inclusion in Medline? To date, NOT EVEN ONE Newsletter reader has reported any reply to these questions. Judging from my mailbox, which I check several times a day, no one has received ANY response whatsoever to these follow-up questions, or even an acknowledgement that their message was received. Why? Is there some kind of secret? It may be time to take this case to a higher level: the U.S. Congress. I ask you to please email your Congressperson and Senators, respectfully requesting that they help you get real answers to your real questions. It is easy to do, you know. Just go to http://www.congress.org (or http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/) and type in your zip code. Then, click the email link under your Senator's and Congressman's name, and select "Compose Your Own Letter." This is fast and, for sending email, free. To speed things further, you can cut and paste the letter I today sent to my Senators and Congressman, editing as you see fit. For the email letter's "Subject," I typed in "Seek Response from Federal Agency." Dear Hon. _________________ I would very much appreciate your assistance in obtaining answers to questions I have directed in writing to a Federal agency, but without success. I am interested in finding out why the National Library of Medicine has not responded adequately to my inquiry as to why it has not chosen to index a particular medical journal. To me, this seems like a reasonable inquiry. Because I and many other citizens are interested in nutrition therapy, I think the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine (which has been published for 36 consecutive years) should be included in the NLM's MEDLINE electronic index. However, it is not. I wrote to MEDLINE, specifically to the Executive Editor, Mr. Sheldon Kotzin. All I received was a form reply, which I think is an unsatisfactory response. My questions are: What are the specific reasons that the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine has been excluded from MEDLINE's index by a "Literature Selection Technical Review Committee"? What are the names, qualifications, and professional affiliations of the members of the NLM/Medline "Literature Selection Technical Review Committee"? Who appoints these members to the Committee? What is the date of their next meeting, and will there be a public hearing? The NLM says of itself, "The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is the largest medical library in the world. The goal of the NLM is to collect, organize and make available biomedical literature to advance medical science and improve public health." It seems odd to me that the world's largest medical library does not see fit to index the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine. It seems even odder that the NLM/MEDLINE Executive Editor did not provide satisfactory answers to my questions. I think detailed, individual reasons for Medline's excluding a particular journal should be public information. I am a taxpayer. I have asked a senior member of a federal office for information and that information has so far been denied to me. Your reply would mean a great deal to me. (end of suggested text) PLEASE LET ME KNOW what your representatives and senators offer to do. I would welcome a copy of all responses that you receive emailed to drsaul@doctoryourself.com . [This article, written by Andrew W. Saul, originally appeared in The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER, Vol. 4, No. 16, July 20, 2004. It is archived at http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n16.txt ] Part 4: MEDLINE'S INDEX AND "THE" INDEX The Roman Catholic Church of centuries past was soundly criticized for creating an Index of books that good people should not be reading. That archaic and highly questionable tradition unfortunately lives on even today, but in secular form. Now there is an official "Index" of permitted scientific publications. It is the world's largest, with tens of millions of individual listings. And this Index is not located anywhere near the Vatican, but rather in Washington, D.C. Let's be fair: the Church has freely admitted it was wrong to restrict scientists such as Galileo. On the other hand, to this day, an unelected committee at the U.S. National Library of Medicine still decides for you what you may and may not have access to. This, at the world's largest medical library, smack in the heart of in the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave. And the process is all done in secret. You are not allowed to communicate with the committee members who decide in your place what you want to be able to access, worldwide, on the electronic index called Medline. THE CLOISTERED COMMITTEE Many Newsletter readers report receiving a form letter from Medline that said, in part, that "If the (journal review) meeting were open to the public, word could circulate about a committee recommendation before a final determination was made by the Director, NLM. Public knowledge about a journal reviewed and not recommended could caste unfair doubt on the quality of the journal. . . While names of review committee members are public information (Editor's note: And we have them, further below), NLM never discloses names of primary and secondary reviewers for specific journals. Observers could obtain that information and it could affect the openness of discussion and might result in contact with specific reviewers after the meeting. It is NLM's policy to prevent unnecessary contact with specific reviewers." There it is: no one is supposed to communicate with review committee members, because of the looming specter of the exercise of unfair influence. Remember, now, everybody: unfair influence is OK for drug companies, who bankroll studies printed by medical journals. And yes, those are indexed on Medline. But don't YOU try to get your two cents in. Lobbying is for those with millions. But we have more votes than they do. I really do think we have to make this whole matter public. Some readers are already writing emails to their Congressperson and Senators, as suggested in my last Newsletter. (http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n16.txt ) I am looking forward to seeing the replies. Questions being asked of your elected officials include, * Why the secrecy? Why is an unelected "advisory" committee making decisions, in private, about what the public has access to on the National Library of Medicine's tax-funded Medline service? * How objective, or biased, are NLM advisory review committee members whose credentials and training are primary medical? * How many experienced orthomolecular (nutritional-therapy) scientists are on the NLM advisory review journal committee? Is there even one? If not, why not? I think the whole idea of a select small group, an elite, an oligarchy, running a public library service, needs to be seriously and repeatedly questioned. IS THE NLM's COMMITTEE "STACKED" AGAINST A MEGAVITAMIN JOURNAL? Thanks to interested readers, we now have the names of the members of the NLM review/advisory committee. It would not be appropriate for any of us to "lobby" individual members, though, so I ask you to refrain from doing so. Nevertheless, I think few, if any, of the committee members appear to be especially favorably oriented towards vitamin therapy. This is the Journal's problem: a stacked deck. But this is also everyone's problem: these appointed experts are deciding what the public may and may not see on Medline. All advisory/review committee members are appointed by the director of the National Institutes of Health. I have no doubt as to either their intelligence or their dedication. I do question their individual and collective qualifications to review and judge objectively on a Journal that specializes in high-dose nutrition therapy. Think about it: Would you have a committee of very well educated, hard working music and art professors decide if JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine were worthy of inclusion in Medline? Therefore, let us take a look at the reviewers' professional qualifications and affiliations, to try to ascertain which of them have orthomolecular (megavitamin) experience or have published any orthomolecular papers. Do you think I am harping excessively on this? Well, keep in mind that these persons, listed below, are to review and either pass or reject an orthomolecular nutrition journal, which their committee has already, and repeatedly, rejected from the Medline index. Is there any reason to think any of the reviewers may be biased? Let's see. WE REVIEW THE REVIEWERS (whose names are all publicly posted at http://www.csr.nih.gov/Roster_proto/members.asp?cid=100753&Title=Liter ature+Selection+Technical+Review+Committee&ABBR=LSTR) CHAIRPERSON: SHEPRO, DAVID, PHD PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENTS OF BIOLOGY & SURGERY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, MICROVASCULAR RESEARCH BOSTON UNIVERSITY (The committee chair has authored 213 papers which are listed by Medline. None appear to be on orthomolecular subjects.) COMMITTEE MEMBERS: BRANDT, CYNTHIA A , MD ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, CENTER FOR MEDICAL INFORMATICS YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (Dr. Brandt's work is listed in Medline 46 times. I found no orthomolecular papers.) CHEN, JINKUN, DDS, PHD PROFESSOR OF GENERAL DENTISTRY DIVISION OF ORAL BIOLOGY, DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL DENTISTRY SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE, TUFTS UNIVERSITY (Because Chen is a common name, Medline has a large number (literally thousands) of returns for a "Chen J" search. None that I saw were orthomolecular.) DELCLOS, GEORGE L., MD DIRECTOR, SOUTHWEST CENTER FOR OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER (25 Medline listings; none appear to be orthomolecular.) DOUGLAS, JANICE G., MD PROFESSOR MEDICINE, PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOPHYSICS, PHARMACOLOGY CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (227 Medline listings since 1968. None appear to be orthomolecular.) FREY, JOHN J., MD PROFESSOR AND CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY MEDICINE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON (51 Medline listings since 1973. None appear to be orthomolecular.) KAPLAN, JERRY, PHD PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ("Kaplan J" is a common name; I saw no orthomolecular papers.) MANNING, PHIL R., MD PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE EMERITUS UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Close to 50 papers; none appear to be orthomolecular.) MCCLURE, LUCRETIA W. SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR COUNTWAY LIBRARY OF MEDICINE HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL (23 papers on Medline; none appear to be orthomolecular.) SHARPS, PHYLLIS W, PHD ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR; DIRECTOR, MASTER'S PROGRAM SCHOOL OF NURSING JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (8 papers listed on Medline; none seem to be orthomolecular.) SIEGEL, VIVIAN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR PUBLIC LIBRARY OF SCIENCE SAN FRANCISCO, CA (19 papers listed on Medline; none appear to be orthomolecular.) SOEHNER, CATHERINE B. HEAD, SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ (One listing on Medline, which does not appear to be orthomolecular.) STERNBERG, ESTHER M., MD (6/30/2007) DIRECTOR, INTEGRATIVE NEURAL IMMUNE PROGRAM NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (93 papers indexed on Medline; none appear to be orthomolecular.) TOM-ORME, LILLIAN, PHD (6/30/2006) RESEARCH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER DEPT. OF FAMILY & PREVENTIVE MEDICINE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH (3 papers listed on Medline; none appear to be orthomolecular.) WEISSMAN, NORMAN, PHD PROFESSOR, HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA, BIRMINGHAM (At least 20 papers listed on Medline; none seem to be orthomolecular.) SCIENTIFIC REVIEW ADMINISTRATOR: KOTZIN, SHELDON BIBLIOGRAPHIC SERVICES DIVISION NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE BETHESDA, MD 20894 (Medline's editor has 15 papers of his own on Medline; none seem to be orthomolecular.) Based on what I saw, with Medline's own listings as my source, the National Library of Medicine's Medline journal review Advisory Committee appears to contain **not one single member** with orthomolecular training or experience. Not one, out of all 15 of them. Some jury, eh? If anyone feels I have erred in my conclusions, I invite corrections for, and especially letters from, any member of the committee who feels that they have not been accurately represented above. NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN There was once another "Index" that stood for over four hundred years. It was created and perpetuated specifically to control thoughts, ideas, and reading material. It was part of a clandestine power-process that Medline would do well to avoid emulating in any way, shape or form: The Inquisition. "The Congregation of the Inquisition was initially charged with drawing up a complete list of forbidden books. This list, the first general one, was published in 1559. . . The last edition of the Index was that of 1948; it was abolished in 1966 . . . During the proceedings against Galileo in 1633, his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World was placed on the Index, where it remained until 1824." (Albert Van Helden. Congregation of the Index; 1995. http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Things/c_index.html ) >From Socrates to Orwell to every home computer user on Earth, free- thinking people everywhere rebel at the very idea of thought control. There is little difference between freedom of speech and freedom of literature. But if people cannot find it, they cannot read it. If they cannot easily find it, they can not easily read it. These days, you don't have to burn literature; just make it hard to access. Please keep me posted on this issue, and I'll try to do the same for you. The NLM Journal Advisory Committee will be meeting in October. While you wait, you can read these FREE FULL TEXT JOURNAL of ORTHOMOLECULAR MEDICINE PAPERS and decide for yourself if they are worth indexing by your tax-supported National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE. Linus Pauling on Mental Illness http://www.orthomed.org/pauling2.htm (and also at http://www.orthomolecularpsychiatry.com/library/articles/orthotheory.shtml ) Linus Pauling Defines Orthomolecular Medicine http://www.orthomed.org/pauling.htm Principles of Orthomolecular Medicine http://www.orthomed.org/kunin.htm Orthomolecular Case Histories http://www.orthomed.org/wund.htm Nutritional Influences on Aggressive Behavior http://www.orthomolecularpsychiatry.com/library/articles/webach.shtml High Blood Pressure and Chelation http://www.orthomolecularpsychiatry.com/library/articles/hyper.shtml Abram Hoffer on the Megavitamin Revolution http://www.orthomolecularpsychiatry.com/library/articles/hoffer.shtml (and also at http://www.healthy.net/library/journals/ortho/issue7.1/Jom-ed2.htm ). Abram Hoffer on Humphry Osmond http://www.orthomolecularpsychiatry.org/humphry.pdf Linus Pauling and Matthias Rath on Heart Disease http://www.healthy.net/library/journals/ortho/issue7.1/Jom-lp1.htm Schizophrenia http://www.healthy.net/library/journals/ortho/issue7.1/Jom-hk1.htm Lowering Health Costs with Nutrition http://www.healthy.net/library/journals/ortho/issue7.2/Jom-dh1.htm Abram Hoffer on Vitamin C Deficiency http://www.healthy.net/library/journals/ortho/issue7.3/Jom-ed2.htm The following Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine papers and reviews are posted at my website: Why Vitamin C Megadoses http://www.doctoryourself.com/cathcart_thirdface.html Vitamin C Therapy http://www.doctoryourself.com/mccormick.html and http://www.doctoryourself.com/levy.html Vitamin E Therapy http://www.doctoryourself.com/evitamin.htm and http://www.doctoryourself.com/estory.htm Vitamin D http://www.doctoryourself.com/dvitamin.htm Gerson Therapy http://www.doctoryourself.com/gersonbio.htm Arthritis http://www.doctoryourself.com/JOM1.html Vitamins and Children http://www.doctoryourself.com/smith1.html Why Vitamin Supplements http://www.doctoryourself.com/replace.htm Fluoridated Water Risks http://www.doctoryourself.com/fluoride_cancer.html Thyroid Problems http://www.doctoryourself.com/thyroid.html Caffeine Problems http://www.doctoryourself.com/caffeine_allergy.html and http://www.doctoryourself.com/caffeine2.html Background and history of the Journal http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_JOM.html [This article, written by Andrew W. Saul, originally appeared in The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER, Vol. 4, No. 17, August 5, 2004. It is archived at http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n17.txt ] Part 4: ANOTHER MEDLINE UPDATE Your tax-supported National Library of Medicine still does not see fit to index the peer-reviewed Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine. But look here and marvel at what they DO choose to index: Time magazine. Yes, Time. Hardly a peer-reviewed medical journal, now, is it? Believe it or not, there are no fewer than 1,260 indexed articles on Medline just from Time Magazine. Here: see for yourself what your taxes pay for. Go to Medline (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi) and do your own two-second search for "time magazine news" (but when you do so, leave out the quotation marks). That was fun, now, wasn't it? Are your ready? Let's try NEWSWEEK! I got 1,136 Medline responses for Newsweek. How about you? Ah, Newsweek: the very epitome of biomedical truth. How do Time and Newsweek get indexed by Medline? Well, that's easy: by meeting the standards of their Technical Review Committee, whose members were all named in a previous Doctor Yourself Newsletter (http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n17.txt ). My readers have been told, by Medline Executive Editor Sheldon Kotzin or one of his assistants, that the standards for inclusion in Medline are quite exacting and are posted at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/jsel.html . Let's look at them. Hmm. There seem to be eight "Critical Elements" for Medline indexing: 1) Scope and coverage: "Articles predominantly on core biomedical subjects." (Time and Newsweek, who cover everything from Michael Moore to Madonna, hardly fit this criterion. 2) Quality of content: "Scientific merit of a journal's content is the primary consideration." (Nor do they meet this requirement.) 3) Quality of editorial work: "External peer review." (I am unaware that Time and Newsweek are peer-reviewed, but then I confess that I did let my subscriptions lapse once . . . ) 4) Production quality: "Should be printed on acid-free paper." (OK, I concede that Time and Newsweek do use wonderful, really wonderful paper.) 5) Audience: "MEDLINE and Index Medicus are intended primarily for those in the health professions: researchers, practitioners, educators, administrators, and students." (I've seen Time and Newsweek in airports, Social Security offices, locker rooms, buses and bars.) 6) Types of content: "Reports of original research. Original clinical observations. Statistical compilations." (Time and Newsweek contain precious little academic research material. I taught biology, nutrition and health science at the university level for nine years. None of my colleagues ever spoke of submitting their original papers to either Time or Newsweek. I wonder why not? 7) Foreign language journals; and 8) Geographic coverage: Time and Newsweek certainly meet those requirements. So do Cosmo and Playboy. CATEGORICALLY SPEAKING The National Library of Medicine/MEDLINE allows for "four broad categories of journals": 1. Research journals 2. Clinical or practice journals 3. Review journals 4. General or all-purpose journals But neither Time or Newsweek are journals at all. I furthermore submit that neither Time nor Newsweek meet the standards set by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) or the Council of Science Editors (CSE). (http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/services/draft_approved.cfm ). It appears that at the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE, the rules they apply to others evidently do not apply to themselves. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH I decided to file a formal complaint with my Senator (who I trust is not too miffed at me from our previous correspondence on S. 722, further below in the Newsletter). Dear Hon. Senator Clinton, I would very much appreciate your assistance in obtaining some real answers to specific questions I have directed in writing to a Federal agency, but without a satisfactory response. I am interested in finding out why the National Library of Medicine has not responded adequately to my inquiry as to why it has not chosen to index a particular medical journal. To me, this seems like a reasonable inquiry. Because I and many other citizens are interested in nutrition therapy, I think the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine (which has been published for 36 consecutive years) should be included in the NLM's MEDLINE electronic index. However, it is not. I wrote to MEDLINE, specifically to the Executive Editor, Mr. Sheldon Kotzin. I received a nonspecific reply, which I think is an unsatisfactory response. I already know that the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine has been excluded from MEDLINE's index by a NLM "Literature Selection Technical Review Committee," and that the committee characteristically does not make its reasons public. There is also no public hearing. However, as a taxpayer, whose taxes help fund NLM and help pay Mr. Kotzins' salary, I wish to know why, exactly, this particular Journal was excluded. In other words, which individual itemized standards were not met? And, which ones were in fact met? I do not want to be referred to a list of standards and left to guess what a committee decided behind closed doors; I wish to see a scoresheet, so to speak. I also do not wish to be told that this process is all some sort of a secret. The NLM says of itself, "The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is the largest medical library in the world. The goal of the NLM is to collect, organize and make available biomedical literature to advance medical science and improve public health." That includes my family's health. I think detailed, individual reasons for Medline's excluding a particular journal should be public information. I have asked a senior member of a federal office for information and that information has so far been denied to me. Your assistance would mean a great deal to me. (end of letter) No response from the Senator yet. (As of Jan, 2006 no response from Senator Clinton, after multiple telephone and written requests.) Don't you love it when your taxes have to be paid on time, but it takes forever to get a response from the people whose salaries your taxes pay for? [This article, written by Andrew W. Saul, originally appeared in The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER, Vol. 4, No. 21, October 5, 2004. It is archived at http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n21.txt ] [Editorial Note from Webmaster Bob... The rest of this post is just for fun, so enjoy!] Part 5: THE DOCTOR YOURSELF **MEDLINE COMEDY CONTEST** The Doctor Yourself Newsletter is soliciting your entry for the most ridiculous, unscientific, or just plain goofy article currently to be found on the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE. It's so easy to play: just go to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi and start searching for any foolish topic of any kind that you wish. The weirder the better. For example: In the "Search PubMed for" box, type in "flatulence" and you will get 1,233 indexed citations. Honestly, this is like shooting fish in a barrel. When you find a real doozy, cut and paste the entire citation into a plain text email (no attachments will be accepted) and send it to me (limit five submissions per reader) to drsaul@doctoryourself.com . So I find it in my non-MEDLINE indexed email Inbox, please use MEDLINE COMEDY CONTEST as your message subject heading. The Doctor Yourself Newsletter's "Winner Selection Technical Review Committee" will then meet behind closed doors, and without telling you anything about the actual scoring process, will decide which entry is the winner. (Did you get the joke? If not, please look at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/jsel.html or do a quick search for "Medline JOM" using the search box near the top of http://www.doctoryourself.com .) Seriously, this really is a contest, and here is the grand prize: my last copy of "Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C: The Clinical Work of Frederick R. Klenner, M.D." by Lendon Smith, M.D. The reader submitting what we judge to be "The World's Most Absurd Medline Citation" will, if he or she resides in the US or Canada, receive this authoritative 68 page megadose vitamin C booklet absolutely free by first class mail. (If an overseas reader wins, it's coming by boat, so don't wait up.) While there will be only one actual prizewinner, favorite runner-up entries will be published in the Newsletter. This contest ends when the next Doctor Yourself Newsletter is sent out, or when the feds shut me down, whichever comes first. So join the fun! Search MEDLINE (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi ) today! After all, your taxes pay for it. Officers, staff, review committee members and editors at the National Library of Medicine are not eligible for entry. No particular legal reason; it's just an arbitrary decision on our part. What's that? You detect a certain sarcasm in my tone? I fail to see why. There is nothing at all funny about the world's largest medical library arbitrarily refusing to index certain scholarly information for professional and public access. For instance: the following papers by twice-Nobel-prize winning Linus Pauling are not on Medline simply because they happened to be published in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine. Rath M, Pauling L. Solution To the Puzzle of Human Cardiovascular Disease: Its Primary Cause Is Ascorbate Deficiency ading to the Deposition of Lipoprotein(a) and Fibrinogen/Fibrin in the Vascular Wall. Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Vol 6, 3&4th Quarters, 1991, p 125. Pauling L, Rath M. An Orthomolecular Theory of Human Health and Disease. Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Vol 6, 3&4th Quarters, 1991, p135. Rath M, Pauling L. Apoprotein(a) Is An Adhesive Protein. Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Vol 6, 3&4th Quarters, 1991, p139. Rath M, Pauling L. Case Report: Lysine/Ascorbate Related Amelioration of Angina Pectoris. Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Vol 6, 3&4th Quarters, 1991, p 144. (If you note carefully, you will see that all four of the above Pauling articles appeared in one single volume of the Journal. We would not want word of THAT to get out, now would we. And there's more: ) Rath M, Pauling L. A Unified theory of Human Cardiovascular Disease Leading the Way To the Abolition of This Diseases As A Cause for Human Mortality. Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Volume 7, First Quarter 1992, p 5. Rath M, Pauling L. Plamin-induced Proteolysis and the Role of Apoprotein(a), Lysine and Synthetic Lysine Analogs. Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Volume 7, First Quarter 1992, p 17. Pauling L. Third Case Report on Lysine-ascorbate Amelioration of Angina Pectoris. Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Volume 8, Third Quarter, 1993, p 137. Hoffer A, Pauling L. Hardin Jones Biostatistical Analysis of Mortality Data for A Second Set of Cohorts of Cancer Patients with A Large Fraction Surviving At the Termination of the Study and A Comparison of Survival Times of Cancer Patients Receiving Large Regular Oral Doses of Vitamin C and Other Nutrients with Similar Patients Not Receiving these Doses. Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Vol 8, Third Quarter, 1993, p 157. Why are these papers by Linus Pauling not indexed by the amply taxpayer-funded National Library of Medicine? It is not because the subjects are uninteresting. Nor is it because Pauling coauthored them with Matthais Rath, M.D., since the following papers ARE indexed on Medline. Same authors; same topics. Rath M, Pauling L. Immunological evidence for the accumulation of lipoprotein(a) in the atherosclerotic lesion of the hypoascorbemic guinea pig. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1990 Dec;87(23):9388-90. PMID: 2147514 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Rath M, Pauling L. Hypothesis: lipoprotein(a) is a surrogate for ascorbate. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1990 Aug;87(16):6204-7. Erratum in: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1991 Dec 5;88(24):11588. PMID: 2143582 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Pauling L, Herman ZS. Criteria for the validity of clinical trials of treatments of cohorts of cancer patients based on the Hardin Jones principle. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1989 Sep;86(18):6835-7. PMID: 2780542 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Pauling L. Biostatistical analysis of mortality data for cohorts of cancer patients. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1989 May;86(10):3466-8. PMID: 2726729 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] I think it is absurd that Medline, which has indexed 116 papers by Linus Pauling, excludes equally valuable work of his due to where it first appeared. For my readers who think I've harped on this issue long enough, you can unsubscribe by returning this email to me (with the headers intact, please). For my readers who think I have just begun to fight, you are correct. The emperor has no clothes. The National Library of Medicine/MEDLINE is biased. [This article, written by Andrew W. Saul, originally appeared in a DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER EXTRA, Vol. 4, No. 21-A, September 20, 2004. It is archived at ] http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n21A.txt ] Part 6: AND AWAY WE GO! Yes, Here Are the Entries Received for the Doctor Yourself News' MEDLINE COMEDY CONTEST! CAUTION: This portion of the Doctor Yourself Newsletter is rated PG-13 for Strong Suggestive Scientific Content. Parental Guidance is Recommended. Thanks to all for filling this wonderful grab bag. OK, OK! No more! The contest is now officially over, and the winning Medline citation will be announced . . . in our NEXT issue. I really did learn a lot from Ed Sullivan. Rules Reminder: In a case when more than one reader sent in the same entry, the one received first gets consideration. And remember: Our decision is final, secret, and arbitrary. Just like MEDLINE. And yes, these papers are all indexed by your taxpayer-supported National Library of Medicine. Heated socks maintain toe temperature but not always skin blood flow as mean skin temperature falls. Aviat Space Environ Med. 2003 Aug;74(8):891-3.) Treatment techniques for the recycling of bottle washing water in the soft drinks industry. Water Sci Technol. 2004;50(2):107-12. Ramirez Camperos E, Mijaylova Nacheva P, Diaz Tapia E. Bite mark or bottle top? J Forensic Sci. 2004 Jan;49(1):119-21. James H, Cirillo GN. Forensic Odontology Unit, University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia. "An alleged assault was reported by a 42-year-old female, with initial medical examination revealing an apparent bite mark on the right buttock. Odontological examination, including visual assessment, full history and photographs showed that the injury did not meet the class characteristics of a human bite. Subsequent digital overlay production showed that the injury pattern was consistent with a corrugated bottle top. This case highlights the need for careful assessment of injuries alleged to be caused by human teeth." Animal waste: the smell of success or the stench of trouble? Herrick JB. J Am Vet Med Assoc. 1995 Jan 15;206(2):162-3. The eyebrow frown: a salient social signal. Tipples J, Atkinson AP, Young AW. Emotion. 2002 Sep;2(3):288-96. "Seven experiments investigated the finding that threatening schematic faces are detected more quickly than nonthreatening faces. Threatening faces with v-shaped eyebrows (angry and scheming expressions) were detected more quickly than nonthreatening faces with inverted v-shaped eyebrows (happy and sad expressions). In contrast to the hypothesis that these effects were due to perceptual features unrelated to the face, no advantage was found for v-shaped eyebrows presented in a nonfacelike object. Furthermore, the addition of internal facial features (the eyes, or the nose and mouth) was necessary to produce the detection advantage for faces with v-shaped eyebrows. Overall, the results are interpreted as showing that the v-shaped eyebrow configuration affords easy detection, but only when other internal facial features are present." J Vector Ecol. 1998 Dec;23(2):186-94. Olfactory responses and field attraction of mosquitoes to volatiles from Limburger cheese and human foot odor. Kline DL. A study of diurnal variation in wrinkles on the human face. Arch Dermatol Res. 2004 Aug 20. Tsukahara K, Moriwaki S, Hotta M, Fujimura T, Kitahara T. "We recently evaluated diurnal variations in facial skin elasticity and thickness and reported a decrease in skin thickness and an increase in skin elasticity in the afternoon compared with the morning. This phenomenon may be associated with the effect of gravity on dermal fluids. There have been no reports on the diurnal variation in wrinkles on the face, and we now describe such a study. . . The results of skin thickness and skin elasticity were in agreement with those of our last study. Swelling tended to occur in the morning due to the effects of gravity during sleep. Therefore, wrinkles may be swollen in the morning. Furthermore, repeated movements of the face due to changes of facial expression may gradually increase wrinkle formation and depth from the morning to the afternoon." Patterson S. Windy babies. Med J Aust. 1966 Mar 19;1(12):506-8. Jones FA. Burbulence. A fresh look at flatulent dyspepsia. Practitioner. 1967 Mar;198(185):367-70. Wigs, laughter, and subversion: Charles Busch and strategies of drag performance. J Homosex. 2004;46(3-4):35-53. Niles R. "This paper examines the strategies of drag performer/ playwright Charles Busch. His performance aesthetic is explored and shown to be subversive even though its initial impulse is to entertain. Basing my arguments on the work of Judith Butler, Elin Diamond, and others, I argue that drag queens like Busch can not only entertain but also make audiences question and criticize through drag's power to create a Brechtian alienation effect and historicize the subject . . . By examining the performance of Busch and his fellow actors, I demonstrate how a contemporary relevancy is achieved by having the roles played by a female impersonator whose acting choices are filtered through a gay sensibility. The ongoing dialectic between spectator and performer creates a historicized moment in performance that underscores the gender dynamics in unexpected and stimulating ways." Respiration. 2004 Jan-Feb;71(1):104. Chin stimulation: a trigger point for provoking acute hiccups. Todisco T, Todisco C, Bruni L, Donato R. Psychophysiology. 2004 Mar;41(2):281-7. Staring at one side of the face increases blood flow on that side of the face. Drummond PD, Mirco N. "To investigate the effect of observation on blushing, an experimenter sat next to 28 participants and looked closely at one cheek while the participant sang (embarrassing) or read aloud (not embarrassing). Increases in cheek temperature were greater on the observed than the unobserved side during both tasks. Changes in cheek temperature were symmetrical when the experimenter sat next to another 23 participants and looked straight ahead, as well as when the experimenter stared at one side of the participant's face through a glass window while the participant sang. However, increases in cutaneous blood flow were greater on the observed than the unobserved side of the forehead during singing. These findings suggest that staring at one side of the face triggers an ipsilateral increase in facial blood flow." Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2001 Apr;25(4):590-2. Thinness and body shape of Playboy centerfolds from 1978 to 1998. Katzmarzyk PT, Davis C. Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2004 Sep;30(9):1186-97. Playboy Playmate curves: changes in facial and body feature preferences across social and economic conditions. Pettijohn TF 2nd, Jungeberg BJ. "Past research has investigated ideals of beauty and how these ideals have changed across time. In the current study, facial and body characteristics of Playboy Playmates of the Year from 1960-2000 were identified and investigated to explore their relationships with U.S. social and economic factors. Playmate of the Year age, body feature measures, and facial feature measurements were correlated with a general measure of social and economic hard times. Consistent with Environmental Security Hypothesis predictions, when social and economic conditions were difficult, older, heavier, taller Playboy Playmates of the Year with larger waists, smaller eyes, larger waist-to-hip ratios, smaller bust-to-waist ratios, and smaller body mass index values were selected. These results suggest that environmental security may influence perceptions and preferences for women with certain body and facial features." J Clin Psychiatry. 1995 Feb;56(2):56-9. Rhinotillexomania: psychiatric disorder or habit? Jefferson JW, Thompson TD. "BACKGROUND: Conditions once considered bad habits are now recognized as psychiatric disorders (trichotillomania, onychopagia). We hypothesized that nose picking is another such "habit," a common benign practice in most adults but a time-consuming, socially compromising, or physically harmful condition (rhinotillexomania) in some. METHODS: We developed the Rhinotillexomania Questionnaire, mailed it to 1000 randomly selected adult residents of Dane County, Wisconsin, and requested anonymous responses. The returned questionnaires were analyzed according to age, sex, marital status, living arrangement, and educational level. Nose picking was characterized according to time involved, level of distress, location, attitudes toward self and others regarding the practice, technique, methods of disposal, reasons, complications, and associated habits and psychiatric disorders. RESULTS: Two hundred fifty-four subjects responded. Ninety-one percent were current nose pickers although only 75% felt "almost everyone does it"; 1.2% picked at least every hour. For 2 subjects (0.8%), nose picking caused moderate to marked interferences with daily functioning. Two subjects spent between 15 and 30 minutes and 1 over 2 hours a day picking their nose. For 2 others, perforation of the nasal septum was a complication. Associated "habits" included picking cuticles (25%), picking at skin (20%), biting fingernails (18%), and pulling out hair (6%). CONCLUSION: This first population survey of nose picking suggests that it is an almost universal practice in adults but one that should not be considered pathologic for most. For some, however, the condition may meet criteria for a disorder-rhinotillexomania." Sud Med Ekspert. 2004 Jul-Aug;47(4):38-40. [The role of carrier-object in investigations of cigar-butts] [Article in Russian] [No authors listed] "A comprehensive series of experiments was undertaken to find the reasons why the cigar-butt stuff, removed from accident places for investigation at forensic- biological laboratories, affects different sera. A number of such reasons were established. Methods are suggested to eliminate the cigar-butt impact with the aim of ensuring the most accurate results while determining the group adherence of saliva on the cigar-butts." Psychophysiological responding during script-driven imagery in people reporting abduction by space aliens. Psychol Sci. 2004 Jul;15(7):493-7. McNally RJ, Lasko NB, Clancy SA, Macklin ML, Pitman RK, Orr SP. [No authors listed] Coca-Cola Space Can undergoes successful test by cosmonauts onboard Soviet space station Mir. AIAA Stud J. 1992 Winter;29(4):14-5. Hong CY, Shieh CC, Wu P, Chiang BN. The spermicidal potency of Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola. Hum Toxicol. 1987 Sep;6(5):395-6. Spina MB. "...Nothing beats stamp collecting..." (Dr. Alan Drinnan). TIC. 1979 Aug;38(8):12-5. Total infarction of the penis caused by entrapment in a plastic bottle. Urologe A. 2004 Jul;43(7):843-4. [Article in German] Maruschke M, Seiter H. An objective evaluation of the waterproofing qualities, ease of insertion and comfort of commonly available earplugs. Clin Otolaryngol. 2004 Apr;29(2):128- 32. Chisholm EJ, Kuchai R, McPartlin D. "Earplugs are commonly recommended to protect the middle ear from water in patients with exposed middle ears. This study assessed the waterproofing qualities, ease of insertion and comfort of six commonly available earplugs. Ten subjects (20 ears) were assessed by placing a pre-weighed neurosurgical pattie in their cleaned ear canal under microscope guidance. The subjects underwent a standardized head wetting regime. The outer ear was dried, earplug and pattie removed and pattie reweighed. The difference in weight was calculated. The subjects were also asked to score the difficulty of insertion and comfort of the earplugs on a visual analogue scale. The results show a significant difference in the waterproofing qualities of the various types of earplugs. Cotton wool with petroleum jelly was the most effective (P < 0.001). It was also the easiest to insert and the most comfortable for the subject (P < 0.001)." Tickle. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2004 Jan;50(1):93-7. Selden ST. "Tickle is a familiar sensation that may have two components: a light or feather- type noxious sensation termed by Hall and Allin as knismesis, and a heavy or laughter-associated sensation termed gargalesis. Studies on the sensation of tickle have generally been on one sensation or the other, but not on both. . . It is unclear why some skin sites are more ticklish than other sites. . . " The four 'Vs' for foot care. Vaseline, vegetable shortening, vinegar and Vicks VapoRub. Adv Nurse Pract. 2004 Jun;12(6):67-70, 84. Kelechi TJ, Stroud S. Using current on-line carcass evaluation parameters to estimate boneless and bone-in pork carcass yield as influenced by trim level. Berg EP, Grams DW, Miller RK, Wise JW, Forrest JC, Savell JW. "The objective of this study was to develop prediction equations for estimating proportional carcass yield to a variety of external trim levels and bone-in and boneless pork primal cuts. Two hundred pork carcasses were selected from six U.S. pork processing plants and represented USDA carcass grades (25% USDA #1, 36% USDA #2, 25% USDA #3, and 14% USDA #4). Carcasses were measured (prerigor and after a 24 h chill) for fat and muscle depth at the last rib (LR) and between the third and fourth from last rib (TH) with a Hennessy optical grading probe (OGP). Carcasses were shipped to Texas A&M University, where one was randomly assigned for fabrication. . . Total dissected carcass lean was used to calculate the percentage of total carcass lean (PLEAN). Lean tissue subsamples were collected for chemical fat-free analysis and percentage carcass fat-free lean (FFLEAN) was determined. Longissimus muscle area and fat depth also were collected at the 10th and 11th rib interface during fabrication. Regression equations were developed from linear carcass and OGP measurements predicting FLC of each fabrication point. Loin muscle and fat depths from the OPG obtained on warm, prerigor carcasses at the TH interface were more accurate predictors of fabrication end points than warm carcass probe depth obtained at the last rib or either of the chilled carcass probe sites (probed at TH or LR). Fat and loin muscle depth obtained via OGP explained 46.7, 52.6, and 57.1% (residual mean square error [RMSE] = 3.30, 3.19, and 3.04%) of the variation in the percentage of BI-FLC trimmed to .64, .32, and 0 cm of s.c. fat, respectively, and 49.0, 53.9, and 60.7% (RMSE = 2.91, 2.81, and 2.69%) of the variation in the percentage of BL-FLC trimmed to .64, .32, and 0 cm of s.c. fat, respectively. Fat and loin muscle depth from warm carcass OGP probes at the TH interface accounted for 62.4 and 63.5% (RMSE = 3.38 and 3.27%) of the variation in PLEAN and FFLEAN, respectively. These equations provide an opportunity to estimate pork carcass yield for a variety of procurement end point equations using existing on-line techniques." Kool-Aid colitis. N Engl J Med. 1990 Apr 5;322(14):1012. Sack J. Effect on tipping of barman drawing a sun on the bottom of customers' checks. Psychol Rep. 2000 Aug;87(1):223-6. Gueguen N, Legoherel P. Laboratoire GRESICO, IUT de Vannes-Departement TC, Universite de Bretagne-Sud, France. "Previous research has demonstrated that a pleasant drawing (a smiling face) on a restaurant bill increased the number of tips left by clients. A similar experiment was carried out using a drawing of the sun since it is known that tips increase on sunny days. The experiment was carried out in local bars and involved clients who have ordered an espresso coffee. Analysis showed that the drawing of the sun led clients to leave a tip more frequently than when this drawing is not present. The size of the tip left was also higher. The hypothesis of the creation of a positive frame of mind by this stimulus is discussed." (Publication Types: Clinical Trial; Randomized Controlled Trial) Health Foodserv Mag. 2000 Winter;10(1):12. Espresso kiosks can be profitable addition to hospital foodservice. Myers M. Espresso maker's wrist. Shusterman D. West J Med. 1990 Jun;152(6):721-2. Comment in: West J Med. 1990 Dec;153(6):664-5. Characterization of particles in cream cheese. J Dairy Sci. 2004 Sep;87(9):2854- 63. Sainani MR, Vyas HK, Tong PS. "Cream cheese is used as a spread and as an ingredient in many food applications. A gritty or grainy mouthfeel is an undesirable textural defect that occurs in cream cheese. However, the factors that cause the textural defect are not well understood. The objectives of this study were to isolate and characterize particles from cream cheese and to study the effect of particles on cheese texture. Particles were isolated by washing cream cheese with water first at 25 degrees C and then at 50 degrees C repeatedly 4 to 5 times. The size of these particles was determined using a particle size analyzer. . . Smooth cream cheese with only 5% (wt/wt) added particles was perceived as significantly grittier than the control sample. This experiment also revealed that the perceived grittiness increased with increase in amount and size of particles." Tooth-brushing epilepsy with ictal orgasms. Seizure. 2004 Apr;13(3):179-82. Chuang YC, Lin TK, Lui CC, Chen SD, Chang CS. "We report a 41-year-old woman with complex reflex epilepsy in which seizures were induced exclusively by the act of tooth brushing. All the attacks occurred with a specific sensation of sexual arousal and orgasm-like euphoria that were followed by a period of impairment of consciousness. Ictal EEG demonstrated two events of epileptic seizure that were provoked after tooth brushing for 38 and 14 seconds, respectively. . . Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed right hippocampal atrophy. We suggest that tooth-brushing epilepsy, especially with sexual ictal manifestations, may provide insight into the cerebral pathophysiology at the right temporolimbic structure." How about that! [This article, written by Andrew W. Saul, originally appeared in The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER (Vol. 4, No. 22, October 20, 2004. It is archived at http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n22.txt ] MEDLINE COMEDY CONTEST: MORE ENTRIES THAT WOULD NOT FIT INTO OUR LAST ISSUE Ear Nose Throat J. 2003 Sep;82(9):702-3. A different type of 'glue ear': report of an unusual case of prominent ears. Purcell EM, O'Neill AC, Regan PJ. "Prominent ears is a condition that can cause extreme psychological distress in young people. This cosmetic deformity can be corrected by otoplasty, an outpatient surgical procedure that is associated with a high rate of patient satisfaction. We report the unusual case of a teenage boy who had repeatedly applied cyanoacrylate adhesive ("superglue") to his postauricular skin in an attempt to pin back his prominent ears. This case of "glue ear" was ultimately resolved by successful otoplasty, although the residual effects of the glue resulted in delayed healing of the surgical wound." PMID: 14569706 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Percept Mot Skills. 1993 Apr;76(2):577-8. The Easter bunny in October: is it disguised as a duck? Brugger P, Brugger S. Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich. "The ambiguous drawing of a duck/rabbit was shown to 265 subjects on Easter and to 276 subjects in October. The ambiguous drawing, though perceived as a bird by a majority of subjects in October, was most frequently named a bunny on Easter." PMID: 8483671 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Appetite. 2004 Feb;42(1):63-9. Increasing the portion size of a packaged snack increases energy intake in men and women. Rolls BJ, Roe LS, Kral TV, Meengs JS, Wall DE. "Results from this study demonstrate that short-term energy intake increases with increasing package size of a snack." Golly, I didn't see THAT coming, did you? Dis Manag. 2003 Winter;6(4):191-7. Meals at medical specialty society annual meetings: a preliminary assessment. La Puma J, Schiedermayer D, Becker J. "Little is known about how meals are chosen for medical meetings. We surveyed the annual meeting planners for 20 major specialty societies. Thirteen (65%) responded; all were currently planning their next meeting. Attendance in 2000 was reported at 113,477 physicians, with 2 million planned meals and snacks. No physician was named as responsible for food choices; the meeting planner and staff were primarily responsible for deciding what food to serve, excluding exhibit halls. Twelve (92%) respondents rated "available budget" as the most important factor. . . .(N)o specific nutritional guidelines could be identified by any planner. . . (and) soda pop was offered at each break." Perhaps this serves to explain why we get such grand nutritional advice from our doctors. Is this next one intriguing enough to get on Animal Planet? Psychol. Sci. 2004 Jul;15(7):437-41. How dogs navigate to catch Frisbees. Shaffer DM, Krauchunas SM, Eddy M, McBeath MK. "Using micro-video cameras attached to the heads of 2 dogs, we examined their optical behavior while catching Frisbees. Our findings reveal that dogs use the same viewer-based navigational heuristics previously found with baseball players (i.e., maintaining the target along a linear optical trajectory, LOT, with optical speed constancy). On trials in which the Frisbee dramatically changed direction, the dog maintained an LOT with speed constancy until it apparently could no longer do so and then simply established a new LOT and optical speed until interception. This work demonstrates the use of simple control mechanisms that utilize invariant geometric properties to accomplish interceptive tasks. It confirms a common interception strategy that extends both across species and to complex target trajectories." PMID: 15200626 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Here is a duly Medline-indexed item straight from the Journal of the American Medical Association: JAMA. 2003 Oct 1;290(13):1683-4 A piece of my mind. Reflections while listening to the Glazunov Saxophone Concerto. Comerci GD Jr. PMID: 14519690 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2001 Mar;16(3):349-51. A case of inability to belch. Tomizawa M, Kusano M, Aoki T, Ohashi S, Kawamura O, Sekiguchi T, Mori M. "A 22-year-old man was unable to belch. He could sense intraesophageal gas, but had no chest pain. An upper gastrointestinal X-ray series and endoscopic examination showed no abnormalities. Esophageal manometry showed normal relaxation of both the upper and lower esophageal sphincters with primary peristalsis during deglutition. However, bolus injection of air into the middle esophagus failed to initiate the belch reflex." And, though his fate is still unlearned, this gentleman's case is now and forever immortalized on MEDLINE as "PMID: 11339431," along with the rest of the lot. The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER is very, very proud of MEDLINE'S academic grandeur, coupled with its demonstrated commitment to sidestep nutritional medicine. In evidence for our first assessment, the readers of this Newsletter have presented a whole pile of MEDLINE-indexed research time-wasters in addition to the ones you just read, above. As for our second criticism, several previous Newsletters addressed the growing scandal surrounding MEDLINE's anti-vitamin, anti-orthomolecular bias: http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n14.txt http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n15.txt http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n16.txt http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n17.txt (If you are unacquainted with this controversy, please consider reading the Newsletters in order.) SO WE DECIDED TO HAVE SOME FUN Yes, friends: late at night when the National Library of Medicine was closed, intrepid NEWSLETTER readers have been electronically searching MEDLINE high and low. They unearthed a motherlode of carefully indexed nonsense. Thus armed, the arbitrarily appointed Doctor Yourself Technical Review Committee met in the strictest secrecy, near the juicer in my kitchen. In so doing, we sought (with the exception of the juicer) to emulate the modus operandi of your taxpayer-funded United States National Library of Medicine. For after all, MEDLINE is in fact self-described as "the NLM's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences." So, we thought, why not model on the scholarly best our nation has to offer? Now, culled from more than 4,800 biomedical journals and over 12 million citations, may I have the envelope, please. (Drum roll.) OUR GRAND PRIZE WINNER for the MEDLINE COMEDY CONTEST is: JUDITH ARNOLD, of Kansas, for her submission of this splendid example of MEDLINE'S commitment to comprehensiveness: Olfactory responses and field attraction of mosquitoes to volatiles from Limburger cheese and human foot odor. Kline DL. J Vector Ecol. 1998 Dec;23(2):186-94. "Olfactory responses of female Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus) to various odor stimuli were studied in a dual-port olfactometer. Responses (i.e., the percent of ca. 75 available female mosquitoes in flight chamber entering each olfactometer port) were studied toward clean conditioned air (control), human foot skin emanations (collected on socks by wearing them for three days), human hand, and Limburger cheese. Mean percent response was greatest to the human hand (80.1%), followed by the human worn sock (66.1%), Limburger cheese (6.4%), and control (< 0.1%). In field studies the worn sock alone attracted very few mosquitoes but a synergistic response occurred to the sock + carbon dioxide baited traps for most species of mosquitoes in six genera (Aedes, Anopheles, Coquillettidia, Culex, Culiseta, and Psorophora). This synergistic effect persisted even when the socks were exposed to environmental conditions for eight consecutive days. Limburger cheese alone did not attract mosquitoes to traps compared to unbaited traps, and there appeared to be a slight repellent effect for most mosquito species." PMID: 9879074 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] I would like to emphasize that, like most of the studies on Medline, this particular one represents genuine research, competently conducted by a bona fide scientist. The point the NEWSLETTER seeks to make is this: if Medline indexes what might quite fairly be called "unique" studies, it should certainly also index Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling's papers that were published in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine (listed at http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n21A.txt ). But MEDLINE has steadfastly refused to do so. For years. In fact, for decades. And we have written proof. LET'S LOOK AT THE SCORE I now have in front of me what many NEWSLETTER readers have written to Medline for, and have until now been denied: the actual judging scoresheet for the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine's previous appraisals by the NLM/Medline "Literature Selection Technical Review Committee." The Journal was previously reviewed in 1989 and again in 1993. Medline uses a point scale of zero to 5, with five being the highest recommendation for indexing, and zero being the lowest. On February 2, 1989, the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine received a 0.0 rating. On March 4, 1993, the Journal again received a 0.0 score. This, by the way, was after JOM had published no fewer than six papers by Linus Pauling. One cannot escape the significance of these 1989 and 1993 NLM reviews that found ABSOLUTELY NO VALUE WHATSOEVER to the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine. After all, "0.0" is not merely a low mark. "0.0" represents an absolute dearth of merit. And "zero point zero" states it so flatly as to leave no room for alternate interpretations. On June 8, 2000, JOM received a 1.5 rating. Out of five, not nearly high enough to qualify for indexing. By then, the Journal had been published for 30 consecutive years. The most recent review, June 6, 2002 brought JOM a rating of 1. Out of five. In this last evaluation, Medline's review committee specifically indicated that the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine had "little importance to researchers"; "little importance to clinicians"; "little importance to educators"; "little importance to allied health professionals"; "little importance to policy makers"; and, incredibly, "little importance to students." As a former college instructor (9 years with the State University of New York), I rebel against the very notion that any committee should decide for students what they may or may not learn about. You cannot study what you cannot find; you cannot find what is not indexed. Information censorship is unscientific, immoral and unjust. We are now awaiting the results of Medline's promised late October 2004 review. Shall we be optimistic or realistic? It will likely be a while before JOM's 2004 Medline review results come in. Until then, because to me there is something so compelling about smelly socks and cheese, my last copy of Dr. Lendon Smith's Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C, like a Limburger-crazed MEDLINE mosquito, will presently be winging its way to Kansas, to Judith Arnold, our Grand Prize Winner. Congratulations! And, a big THANK YOU to all my readers who inundated me with their entries. Loved them! [This article, written by Andrew W. Saul, originally appeared in The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER, Vol. 4, No. 23 for November 5, 2004. It is archived at http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n23.txt ] POSTSCRIPT: In early 2005, the results of the October 2004 review were made available. Medline had once again rejected JOM. MEDLINE, to this day (Jan 2006) still steadfastly refuses to index the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine. If you?ve had enough, and want to do something about it, please email the author at drsaul@doctoryourself.com . http://doctoryourself.com/medline.html (And, for some real fun, be sure to scroll down that page a ways and read about our famous, our one-and-only MEDLINE COMEDY CONTEST.) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/coordinator_resultsproject.net/attachments/20060121/b879f656/attachment-0001.htm From Coordinator at resultsproject.net Fri Jan 27 11:28:35 2006 From: Coordinator at resultsproject.net (Coordinator@resultsproject.net) Date: Fri Jan 27 11:36:55 2006 Subject: [Coordinator] New button on Results website Message-ID: <7.0.0.15.2.20060127092647.021cd3f0@cox.net> Hello Fellow MannaJammers, You may have noticed a big red button on the http://www.resultsproject.net/ website. This has already generated $200 in surveys from my site and will soon be available to all of your subdomains, hopefully by next week. Steve From Coordinator at resultsproject.net Fri Jan 27 19:10:02 2006 From: Coordinator at resultsproject.net (Coordinator@resultsproject.net) Date: Fri Jan 27 19:52:41 2006 Subject: [Coordinator] 'Indigo' theory sees children in a new light Message-ID: Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 12900 bytes Desc: not available Url : /pipermail/coordinator_resultsproject.net/attachments/20060127/f16cc99e/attachment-0001.gif From Coordinator at resultsproject.net Sun Jan 29 22:57:32 2006 From: Coordinator at resultsproject.net (Coordinator@resultsproject.net) Date: Sun Jan 29 23:08:07 2006 Subject: [Coordinator] Schools forced to focus on ADHD Message-ID: Steve Plog - Founder of the Results Project is mentioned in this article published today. Public speaker and author Steven Plog travels the country trying to sell parents on the notion that the symptoms associated with ADHD are really caused by high-sugar diets and nutritional deficiencies. "Most of these symptoms can be traced to something other than ADHD," Plog said at a recent seminar in Tampa. But the reporter shows her obvious bias with her not particularly complimentary statement, "That can be a hard sell to parents who have seen the symptoms firsthand." But someone should point out to this reporter, better than a parent "seeing" the symptoms first hand, who would know better than someone who has "lived" with the symptoms for close to 40 years and has found the negative symptoms he has manageable through nutrition instead of drugs, AND recognizes the value of the many POSITIVE symptoms associated with the diagnosis of AD/HD? You too can find the causes of many of the negative symptoms of AD/HD by taking the Results Project's new ADD Symptoms Survey found at: http://www.resultsproject.net/add_form/index.html Source: http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060129/NEWS/601290 893 Nolan Middle School eighth-grader Andrew Barbieri, 14, struggles in school because of his ADHD. Sometimes he has trouble paying attention, but he does well in a hands-on technology class at the Manatee County school. ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER Schools forced to focus on ADHD Parents and educators are debating the best way to teach a growing number of children who have been diagnosed with an elusive brain disorder. By TIFFANY LANKES STAFF WRITER tiffany.lankes@heraldtribune.com Andrew is in trouble again, this time for throwing a book at a classmate. Last time he missed the bus, and then made a wisecrack about it when he showed up late for school. The eighth-grader at Nolan Middle School in Manatee County has been in trouble dozens of times this year, typically for not sitting still, acting up in class or talking out of turn. His mother, Cindy Adamson, says he can't help himself. Andrew, 14, has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. With a little help, Adamson says, her son can succeed in school. She has spent years fighting the school system to get him special education services, but has had little luck. At the end of last semester Andrew was failing most of his classes. "This child is not doing it on purpose," Adamson said. "This is his life." Students like Andrew are at the center of a national debate over how to best educate children with ADHD, a disorder that makes it difficult for kids to sit still, pay attention and control their behavior. More than 4 million children in the United States have been diagnosed with ADHD, and they qualify for special education under federal law if the condition affects their ability to learn. But ADHD isn't like other disabilities that can be confirmed through medical tests. Doctors base their diagnosis on symptoms -- like hyperactivity or an inability to sit still -- and in some cases it becomes a judgment call. There are also no clear guidelines to determine whether the disorder is affecting a child's ability to learn, and if it does what the special education should entail. The issue is pitting parents against schools in a battle that is shaping how educators teach students with ADHD. In Manatee County, one parent took the issue to court in a lawsuit the school district settled in November. "You're starting to see a groundswell of this movement," said Robert Reid, an ADHD researcher at the University of Nebraska. "In a few years you're going to see people who specialize in teaching kids with ADHD in the schools." But that is a ways off, say school administrators already scrambling to keep up with students' needs. "There's only so much money and a whole lot of kids," said Robert Todisco, a special education attorney in New York and board member of the national advocacy group Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Besides, some people question whether ADHD exists at all. "She was just scattered" ADHD has evolved from a little talked about medical condition to a cultural phenomenon, popping up everywhere from television sitcoms to water cooler conversations. It is so prevalent that people today joke that any child -- or adult -- who can't sit still must have ADHD. In the past decade the number of children diagnosed with the condition increased 40 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Adults can also have ADHD, but the condition is most prevalent in children. Doctors aren't sure whether more children are developing the disorder today than years ago or if it is just more frequently diagnosed. Some say the increase is because people today know more about ADHD and its treatments. Despite some skepticism, researchers are starting to find biological evidence that ADHD exists, including links to chemical imbalances in the brain and genes. One study by the National Institutes of Mental Health found that part of the brain is smaller in children with ADHD. Still, there is no test to check for the condition, so a pediatrician or psychiatrist makes the diagnosis based on symptoms, like hyperactivity or trouble sitting still. That's part of the reason some critics discredit ADHD, saying it is hard to tell the difference between its symptoms and normal childhood behavior. Instead, they blame the high number of diagnoses on today's fast-paced society, where kids are bombarded by constant noise and images from television and video games. Public speaker and author Steven Plog travels the country trying to sell parents on the notion that the symptoms associated with ADHD are really caused by high-sugar diets and nutritional deficiencies. "Most of these symptoms can be traced to something other than ADHD," Plog said at a recent seminar in Tampa. That can be a hard sell to parents who have seen the symptoms firsthand. Denise DeMarchi said she was skeptical when a doctor first diagnosed her daughter with ADHD. But the reality of her daughter's condition set in as she watched her struggle through classes at Harllee Middle School in Manatee County. The girl had trouble keeping her work organized and misplaced homework assignments. Sometimes she would forget to do them at all. "She was just scattered all over the place," DeMarchi said. "She was just lost." For parents like DeMarchi, the research is irrelevant. Having a child with the disorder is evidence enough. "If you watch a child who has been struggling or talk to any parent who's gone through this, it starts to become very real," said Sarasota parent Susan Jennings, whose son has ADHD. A growing challenge Schools can't say if a child has ADHD, but must offer special education services if the condition affects the student's ability to learn. After a doctor diagnoses a child with the condition, a committee of school district psychologists and educators test the student to see if he qualifies for special services. In 2003, there were more than 450,000 children nationwide in the special education category that includes ADHD -- a 400 percent increase over the previous decade. Because not all children with ADHD qualify for special education, schools can never know just how many with the condition are in their classrooms. And some children with the disorder may qualify for special education because they have another disability, not because of the ADHD. The rise in the number of children who qualify for services alone is pushing schools to stretch already thin resources to meet their needs. In a recent University of Florida study, teachers said they want to help children with ADHD in their classrooms but don't know how. "All of us teachers are faced with so many different things in the classroom," said Shawn Griffon, a counselor at Prine Elementary School in Manatee. "But we're all advocates of the child. We're all cooperative in doing what we need to do." Still, parents say that doesn't always seem to be the case. When the district first tested Andrew for special education, it determined he did not qualify. It did decide he needed some extra help in the classroom -- like longer time to complete tests -- but his teachers didn't always comply, his mother says. Parent Joanie Derry had a similar experience at Stewart Elementary School in Manatee. The school district refused to give her son special education because he got good grades and did well on standardized tests. But teachers repeatedly punished the boy by making him stand against a wall during recess for behavior related to his ADHD. Derry filed a discrimination lawsuit against the school district, which settled in November after a judge ruled in the mother's favor in a related case. In his ruling, the judge wrote that school districts must consider a child's entire school experience, not just grades, when determining whether special education is required. As part of the settlement, the district enrolled Derry's son in special education, paid her $110,000 attorneys fees and agreed to change its policies for handling special education complaints. But in private meetings to discuss the case, school administrators questioned the legitimacy of the boy's condition. "This kid is not disabled," said School Board attorney John Bowen, according to transcripts. "He's a great kid. And this kid sat in court all afternoon and sat there, and there was no sign of ADHD. "Where is the ADHD?" Not enough funding Along with problems in the classroom, parents say the endless meetings with school administrators, lawyers and psychologists that are needed to apply for special education can be overwhelming. "It takes a lot of work to get what you need," said Jennings, the Sarasota parent. Jennings spent years fighting the Sarasota school district before it agreed to give her son special services. That was only after she hired a psychologist and attorney to help negotiate her case. Like Derry, Jennings' son earned good grades at Pine View School but had trouble paying attention in class. The boy was easily bored and got in trouble for talking and acting up. "You never want to be in a position when you're in an adversarial relationship," Jennings said. "But it gets to that point with some schools until you draw a line in the sand." School administrators say they want to do more for ADHD students, but don't get enough funding. Florida gives school districts extra money to educate students with disabilities, but local administrators say it's not nearly enough. And if the state doesn't agree that a child with ADHD qualifies for special services, it won't give the district any extra money. The extra costs are largely in salaries for teachers hired to teach special classes. Districts also have to pay to train teachers to accommodate these kids' needs in regular classrooms. "We can identify as many kids as we want for special education, but the funding isn't going to follow," said Ron Russell, special education coordinator in Manatee. "It simply isn't enough to support the students' needs. It's frightening." State education officials say the districts get plenty of money and just need to be smarter in their spending. They point out that the federal government also gives school districts money to educate students with disabilities. But the federal government is now pushing school districts to use some of that money in the regular classroom. The federal government is also prodding school districts to put fewer students in special education to avoid "labeling" children who may not really need it. Prompted by the changes, Manatee is using $1 million of its federal special education funding to pay for reading coaches. Administrators say that will help all children improve, and may even keep some students from needing special services. Critics acknowledge that there is some validity to those arguments, but say it all comes down to money -- no one wants to pay the cost of these children's classroom needs. "You have a situation where there's an administrator sitting there looking at a kid and thinking about his budget line," said Todisco, the New York attorney. Someone to advocate Advocates of students with ADHD say helping these children in the classroom doesn't have to be costly. Some just need to take breaks or extra time on tests. Others need to squeeze a ball to help concentrate or use colored markers to stay organized. Derry said her son behaved better when a teacher let him sit in the front of the classroom and used positive reinforcement to encourage good behavior. While these are things any teacher could do in the classroom, many parents want special education because it is legally binding. And in Florida, special education students can qualify for vouchers to attend private schools. Still, researchers say techniques that help children with ADHD -- like breaking lessons into shorter pieces and letting students work in small groups -- would benefit all students. "If we run every class the way we run it for kids with ADHD we'd probably have a much stronger education system," said Reid, from the University of Nebraska. And with the right support, ADHD can be turned into a positive attribute. Many children with the disorder have extremely high IQs and lots of energy. When they figure out how to focus, that energy goes to completing the task. At Nolan Middle, Andrew was recently enrolled in a learning strategies class as part of his special education plan. The class teaches students how to handle the symptoms of their disabilities and succeed in a regular classroom. Teacher Pamela Rahn uses a tough love approach with her students, coupling her advice for coping with their disabilities with a dose of reality. Rahn, who spent 12 years in the mental health field, says her understanding of her students' disabilities helps her deal with them. She is also more tolerant of the behavior that sometimes gets them in trouble in other classes. On a recent day, Andrew sat in her class drumming a pencil on his desk and tapping his feet on the floor. Rahn ignored the slight fidgeting and continued to teach. "It's a learning difference, and you have to learn how to compensate for it in the real world," Rahn tells Andrew. "Since you've been graced with my presence and I with yours, this is how it is." STAFF PHOTO / ROD MILLINGTON / Fourteen-year-old Andrew Barbieri tries to focus during his learning strategies class as teacher's aide Sue Ann Ciccone tells him about the importance of keeping a planner. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/coordinator_resultsproject.net/attachments/20060129/331281ee/attachment-0001.htm