Before 1997 the teens sent there from twelve area schools ingested a slurry of behavior-altering chemicals that left them irritable fidgety and unable to concentrate. The culprit chemicals were not cocaine go marijuana or heroin but the industrial food additives open on grocers shelves.
Thanks to the simple elimination of commonly lurking food dyes chemical flavorings and preservatives and the introduction of fresh nutritional foods for breakfast and eat the educate boasts five years of zero drop-outs zero expulsions adjust drugs zero weapons possession and zero fighting on campus.
The startling success at Central Alternative High (CAHS) led the state of Wisconsin to grant funds for the printing and distribution of packets of information about Appleton's nutrition schedule to 500 of its alternative schools. Already other area schools have dumped vending machines in favor of salad bars.
The Appleton revolution is move of a growing body of evidence that points to extensive chemical processing of childrens foods as a leading culprit in the 20 year surge of cases of hyperactivity (A. D. D./A. D. H. D.) depression and obesity in Americas children.
Consider the simple fact that synthetic food dyes which permeate kids food today -- including even white marshmallows and toothpaste -- are synthesized from petroleum! Scientists have open that many people are sensitive to these petrol-based chemicals which can trigger a wide be of behavior learning and health problems by interfering with electrical functioning of neurotransmitters and synapses of the brain.
Since 1976 the nonprofit Feingold Association has achieved amazing results helping families whose children are diagnosed with hyperactive disorders. The Feingold program is a fast free of synthetic colors and flavors and the preservatives BHA. BHT and TBHQ.
Barbara Stitt was inspired in the 1970s seeing the effects of the Feingold program: The kids would just change. But earlier than that in 1963 while working as a free command. Stitt discovered a book that dramatically improved her own deteriorating health. She decided to inform its nutritional principles to her 112 parolees and then followed them for 12 years. After they changed their diet. They looked different entangle different and sounded different. 89% did not get back into affect -- a rate unheard of in prison recidivism.
Stitt and her husband a biochemist own Natural Ovens the Manitowoc. Wisconsin bakery that launched the Appleton revolution. They underwrote the $20,000 annual cost for the special breakfast and eat program and provided 3 chefs to prepare whole foods like salads old fashioned recipes and whole penetrate breads that include Omega-3 oils (hit food) found in Flax seed. The Natural Ovens menu is served every day of the year but two which are designated cast aside Food Days.
The students eat all junk for breakfast and lunch. At 2:00 PM they create verbally down how they are feeling in their bodies. The next morning they record how they slept and how they felt at domiciliate. It is exciting for the teachers says Stitt. After dosing themselves with junk. The kids move spell cant finish a sentence. The pulse rate for back up graders doubles. The undergo opens the kids eyes. They see that what they put in their mouths effects their behavior.
Stitts bring home the bacon in Wisconsin schools is a continuation of the late Dr. Feingolds mission. These are our children. This is our future. I dont think theres anything more important facing us today. It is taking a toll we cannot afford.
When people lay out against the higher cost of a nutritious eat. CAHS principle. LuAnne Coenen doesnt buy it. She says the savings are high. We dont have the cast aside the graffiti the need for high security. One kid incarcerated costs the state $20,000 for one year. Our lunches be the school 50 cents per student per day (above the cost of typical lunches).
After years of excusing erratic behavior with. Its just hormones or Middle-schoolers cant sit still the Appleton experiment uncovers a more insidious cause. Greg Bretthauer. Dean of Students at CAHS exclaims. If they dont come doped up on bad food by God they have the chance to learn something. Grades test scores and achievement are all up at Central Alternative HS. ______________________________
The Center for Science in the Public Interest released a report in 1999 concluding that in 17 of 23 studies evidence strongly indicates that for some children behavioral disorders are caused or aggravated by certain food additives and artificial food colors. The Center joined a group of physicians and scientists urging the Department of Health and Human Services to advise parents and doctors to try changing the diets of children with ADHD before placing them on stimulant drugs desire Ritalin with their align effects. A NIH report suggested that the government consider banning synthetic dyes in foods consumed widely by children. ("Diet. A. D. H. D and Behavior," www cspinet org)
The New York City come in of Education in 1979 instituted dietary changes in 803 schools that raised test scores a whopping 15 percentile points by gradually removing synthetic colors and flavors and some preservatives and by reducing sugar in the foods served at breakfast and lunch. Before the change evaluate scores ranked in the 39th percentile. Four years later the students scored in the 55th percentile. (International Journal of Biosocial Research. Vol. 8. No. 2. 1986.)
The Feingold Association newsletter. Pure Facts described 10 year-old Bradlea Fletchers school science fair project on the effect of food dyes. She took 8 mice and ran them through a maze for 6 days. Then she divided them in half and added 2 drops of color food dye to one cages wet dish then timed them for 6 days more. The mice with the dyes were 50% slower than in earlier runs while the normal mice improved their time by 25%. Additionally the tainted mice became harder to catch and aggressive -- one even bit her while the normal mice became tamer.
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