The various health care practitioners at 2 College Street (myself, 3 naturopaths, 3 massage therapists, and others) are having an OPEN HOUSE on Thursday the 4th October between 3 and 7.

I also hold an Open House each Thursday from 4 to 6 (at which time treatment is available by donation) see below

Remember, last month I wrote, "The preservative used in soda pop, and elsewhere, Sodium Benzoate, is toxic..." and reproduced at some length an article about how the toxicity of the sodium salt of benzene has only just been shown to be toxic... well, now it seems that this preservative, which is in soda-pop, contributes to attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity in children...

Some Food Additives Raise Hyperactivity, Study Finds
New York Times, 6 September 2007

"...the new, carefully controlled study [published in the Lancet] shows that some artificial additives increase hyperactivity and decrease attention span in a wide range of children, not just those for whom overactivity has been diagnosed as a learning problem...
...A mix of additives commonly found in children's food increases the mean level of hyperactivity ... exacerbate hyperactive behaviours (inattention, impulsivity,and overactivity) ...
... The Lancet study focused on a variety of food colorings and on sodium benzoate, a common preservative ... additives - colors and sodium benzoate - that mimicked the mix in children's drinks that are commercially available. The dose of additives consumedwas equivalent to that in one or two servings of candy a day.
...hyperactivity could increase in as little as an hour."

"Shy on Drugs"
New York Times 21 Sept 2007

Nowadays psychiatrists call shyness "social anxiety disorder" and medicate (paxil).
"Shyness is so common among American children that 42% exhibit it." Amongst adults roughly half the population describe themselves as shy or introverted. Psychiatrists say that at least one in eight of these people need medical attention."

The article describes how psychiatrists and drug companies turned shyness and introversion into "social anxiety disorder". "GlaxoSmithKling, the maker of Paxil, declared in the late 1990s that its antidepressant could also treat social anxiety and, presumably, self-consciousness... Nudged along by a public-awareness campaign ("Imagine Being Allergic to People") that cost the drug maker more than $92 million in one year alone, ... social anxiety quickly became the third most diagnosed mental illness in the nation, behind only depression and alcholism. Studies put the total numbert of childrem affected at 15%...

    But "a (recent) study sponsored by Britain's Aconomic and Social Research Council reported that levels of the stress hormone cortisol are consistently lower in shy children than in their more extroverted peers"

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