Scientists link diabetes drugs to heart failure
The American Cycle of Botched, depressing birth, followed by raging depression, followed by anti-depressant use, followed by the pancreas being destroyed by those chemicals, followed by debilitating life long diabetes, followed by heart disease and/or manic depression is being played out in many many peoples lives.
If we go back to nature and trust birth works and then welcome the babes holistically, the cycle can be turned around from disease and disability to ecstatic joy and functionality.
Jenny Hatch
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Telegraph: Ritalin poses child crime risk
Ritalin poses child crime risk
CHILDREN who use Ritalin for a long period of time could be more at risk of delinquency and substance abuse, a study has found.
“Doctors are suggesting children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) should take a break from medication after three years of use.
An American study – published in the Medical Observer _ has found that while drugs such as Ritalin can initially help sufferers, the benefit of prolonged use is in doubt.
Some children stay on medication until they reach 18, but researchers believe it may not protect them from all the symptoms.
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The US Multimodal Treatment Study of Children revealed the more days of prescribed medication, the more serious delinquency became.
In a cohort of 500 children with ADHD – followed for 36 months until they were 12 – researchers found 27 per cent were at a greater risk of committing crime, compared with 7 per cent among “normative” children.
Substance use also increased to 17 per cent in ADHD children – almost double the normal rate.
More than 30,000 children in Australia take Ritalin or a similar drug.
Jill Sewell, Associate Professor of the Royal Australian College of Physicians, said evidence suggested a break from medication was beneficial.
“Evidence shows that there is very clear benefit of taking medication for 12-18 months, but after three years it is not so clear,” she said.
“Often in medications you do have to stop for a period of time to see if it is still effective.”
Healthy Families Make A Healthy World!
A Tale of Two Sets of twins
This past week two sets of twin girls were born to mothers who were planning and hoping for unassisted births.
The Mothering Forum at Mothering.com is one of the only public UC Chat rooms on the web. Most of the chats for Freebirth are private, so it is nice to be able to share some birth stories with a public audience curious about how Freebirthers interact with each other on the web.
I think these twin stories are awesome. And the number one reason is because they illustrate a couple of points.
First and foremost Freebirthers do not reject modern medicine.
If a family feels that they will be served by interacting with a midwife or doctor, they seek out whatever level of prenatal and birth care feels right for them.
Second, the response to both of the mothers was also very indicative of how chat rooms welcome birth stories, no matter how the birth goes. The two birth stories were both greeted with wonderful acceptance and blessings, even though one momma had a section and the other had a freebirth.
Third, the bottom line for most freebirthing families is that the baby arrives safe, no matter where that birth takes place.
Here are the links to the various stories:
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And here
and Here
May I offer my hearty congrats to both families and pray that as women continue to get educated about proper nutrition for twins and what truly causes preeclampsia, they will be enabled to give birth in the most holistic way possible. The unique nutritional demands of a twin pregnancy can pose serious health risks to the babe if mother is not clued in to what she needs to eat daily to make healthy children. But this mother still built two very large twins and birthed her children in the way that made sense to her family – by c-section.
If you will search around the unassisted childbirth forum on mothering you can get a sense of how the women support and help each other.
Jenny Hatch
Healthy Families Make A Healthy World!
Day at the Park
I am really enjoying how quickly One True Media Works to upload video and still pictures. It has been fun playing around with it the past few weeks.
Here is another montage of yet another day at the park.
Jenny Hatch
Healthy Families Make A Healthy World!
GOPers Bail on YouTube Debate?
GOPers Bail on YouTube Debate?
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Over the last few hours, I’d been hearing buzz that GOP candidates were going wobbly on the CNN/YouTube debate. I was dismissive. Given the huge earned media hit the Democrats got this week, the fact that even the highly partisan questioners acquitted themselves better than Chris Matthews did in the first debate, and the sponsorship of the powerful Republican Party of Florida, I didn’t think the GOP candidates would make the political mistake of passing up it up.
I was apparently wrong. Rudy Giuliani is unlikely to participate, according to an official source.
And Mitt Romney wouldn’t commit, dissing the “snowman question.”
Mitt Romney didn’t like some of the more frivolous trappings and told the New Hampshire Union Leader that “I think the presidency ought to be held at a higher level than having to answer questions from a snowman.”
I would now expect numerous candidates to bail, just like they did at Ames, citing the lack of a frontrunner.
This is a big mistake. The Democrats are afraid to answer questions from Big Bad Fox News Anchors, and the Republicans are afraid to answer questions from regular people. Which is worse?
It’s stuff like this that will set the GOP back an election cycle or more on the Internet. No matter the snazzy Web features and YouTube videos they may put up, if they’re fundamentally uncomfortable with the idea of interacting with real people online, what’s the point?
Having spent the better part of a decade working at the intersection of politics and the Web, I can’t help but feel of a deep, deep sense of dismay that we’re missing something so basic. This is EXACTLY why I am afraid that we will be outraised by $100 million or more in 2008.
Yes, some of the questions on Monday were trivial. Yes, they were partisan. (I expect many of the 9/17 questioners to be partisan Republicans.) Yes, they were messy. But so is democracy. And the fact that some place so much faith in the broken mainstream media over a benign format like this one says a lot about the difficult straits the Republicans are in right now.
Perhaps the rest of the field will prove me wrong
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I bet Ron Paul will happily participate in th at You Tube debate. In fact, my gut feeling is that the frontrunners in the GOP are afraid of another Paul Blowout on the web. He has a debate style, clarity of views, and no holds barred affinity for the Constitution that is very reminiscent of Alan Keyes, and we all know what the GOP did to Keyes during a key republican debate.
“In Atlanta in 1996, GOP Presidential candidate Alan Keyes was invited to a televised candidate debate in Atlanta, but when he did not place in the top several candidates in the New Hampshire primary voting, the invitation was rescinded, and he was arrested when trying to gain entry.”
I’d be scared too.
Jenny Hatch
