This is insane. A New York Times article chronicles how up to one in five American boys get an ADHD diagnosis. Most of these kids are prescribed medication, stimulants similar to amphetamine (like Ritalin or Adderall):
Rates of ADHD diagnoses in children
NYT: A.D.H.D. Seen in 11% of U.S. Children as Diagnoses Rise
Why? This is certainly not normal. Something is very wrong. But what?
Have a look at this US map of the rates of ADHD in children:
ADHD
Does it not look eerily familiar? It does.
Here’s a few other maps:
Obesity
Hmmm… the obesity epidemic matches the ADHD epidemic. Interesting.
How about this:
Soda and disease
It could be one big coincidence. Perhaps soda, obesity, diabetes and ADHD have nothing to do with each other.
Or perhaps too much sugar and other processed carbs is the cause of least three different epidemics: obesity, diabetes and ADHD. That’s my guess.
What do you think?
PS
At least one well-designed study has shown that reducing sugar and other processed carbs (among other things) in the diet improved kids with ADHD.