While addressing a conference on "The New Nutrition," Dr. Benjamin Feingold stated: "As many as seven million children have been diagnosed as having serious learning problems. About five million are considered hyperactive. At least two million are being treated with drugs, usually Ritalin or amphetamines, in an...
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Frank, an attractive but rather thin sixth-grader, sits quietly in an examination room of the Learning Disabilities Clinic at the Kaiser-Permanente Medical Center in Oakland, California. A clinic doctor checks Frank's cumulative record from the urban school he attends. Then he checks the boy's eye movements. Frank has...