On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 07:48:29AM -0700, Mike Rosing wrote:
On Wed, 7 May 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Could be more sinister than that, an attempt to stigmatize thinkers as weird. Especially when you look at the phenomenon of the rise of ADD. When I was growing up, there was no such thing as ADD, and,indeed, I don't remember having kids in my school who exhibited those symtoms. There were dumb kids, of course, and daydreamers, but I don't recall the weirdly restless, buzzy kids you see so many of now. So what caused ADD -- something in the water, like flouride? Or some food additive, or some form of pollution? We know that there are a number of
Sugar. That's all. Kids get really hyper when fed tons of soda, candy and chocolate.
Certainly sugar has a large effect, chocolate, however, should be soothing.
There's a good example of how to eliminate the problem right here in Wisconsin - the Appleton (or Oshkosh, but there abouts)
definitely not Oshkosh, such inovation would never be allowed by city officials. People here are too dumb to ever come up with such an idea anyway, it would have to become the norm everywhere else for a few years before it would be adopted here. When we were working with the local gov't community garden committee, and suggested that they quit applying chemical fertilzers and pesticides to the garden areas, noting that the Madison community gardens had gone organic 30 years ago, one of them stated "Oh, but that's Madison." Finally got them to stop the chemicals, but they still insist on coming in every Spring with heavy equipment to plow up all the plots, and, given the wet clay soil there, can't do that until very late, so people aren't allowed into their plots until May 25 -- in an area where you want to plant potatoes and peas mid April. Our suggestions that people just be allowed to do it themselves with tillers or by hand as they do elsewhere came to naught -- "But we've always done it that way."
school systems have gone to feeding kids bread, carrots and milk several times during the day, and have no behavioural problems. Getting the obvious to be seen in Madison is quite a chore!
(snip) -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com