People share information and experiences with a fruit and grain cookie called the Backup Bar and The Glenview Treatment as natural treatments for ADHD.

Natural Alternatives for Treating ADHD Symptoms

Fruit and whole seed grain cookies or Backup Bar

Jim Sisseck from Spokane, Washington writes..... "I have found something helping many young people in my area with this. The problem seems to arise from the effects of their pancreas on the normal industrialized country diet although grinding grain is pretty pandemic now. In the newest of generations some reactions have occurred that bring about what I call "energy shortage desparation" which leads to all the activities we would associate with desparation. To bypass this, provide the children with cookies made of fruit and whole seed grain. The fruit causes greater saliva and starch breaking enzyme, the grain in large enough particles provides a continuous energy supply over long periods of time. Whole seeds are an oft unrecognized form of fiber that is what the bowel is seeking when "your stomach growls" and may actually still exist to a small extent on exit. Typically stimulants like ritalin help return liver stored carbohydrates to the bloodstream at the expense of dependency for depletion of adrenalin stores. The body uses adrenalin to do this job and as the stores are depleted is less and less able to do it on its own. I've seen almost about faces in as little as a month on high quantities of whole seed and reduction of "fast and slow sugars" such as sugar to farina. All these ground grain products are into the bloodstream quickly and either into the liver or the cells. Once there and not in the bowel it takes great energy to retrieve them. Those suffering ADD seem to lack that energy."

I wrote and asked Jim for a recipe and he replied: "This is a part of a publication I am ammassing called "What if You Could" which has the full explanation of the reasons for the "Back Up System Diet." We started making bad food before we even knew there was bad food. Now we're chasing the bad food and neglecting the good food. As for a recipe for the "Backup Bar," there is not an actual recipe. A recipe calls for specific ingredients and this has more permutations than Einstein.

Procedure for making "Backup Bar:"

1. Make standard white bread dough the consistency of thick cream.
   (alt; thin commercial frozen bread dough with water)
2. Lightly steam whole seed grain except oats, corn, rice. Protein balanced with raw nuts.
   (See "Diet for a Small Planet" by Frances Moore Lappe)
3. In bowl, mix thin bread dough into grain until grain adheres.
   Add one quarter cup brown or turbinado sugar for each quart of grain mix.
   (Used to make certain cookie will be palatable-your discretion)
4. Roll between waxed paper until about one quarter inch thick.
5. Lay out strips of crushed fruit (apple, cranberry, anything but citrus)
   (season to taste with cinnamon, etc.)
6. Once rolled and pinched, baste with dough and sprinkle with flour.
7. Bake as rolls or Danish.
8. When done, spray or baste with fruit juice, dust with powdered sugar to increase saliva.  Enzyme in saliva is needed to convert starch to sugar and the enzyme must be at maximum to last long enough to provide long term energy.

Cookie is to be eaten Chinese style, before anything else.

Follow with high fat diet. Low fat diets as good diets was a theory, a bad theory."

The Glenview Treatment

Gary from Australia writes:

"I am a qualified nutritionist with a diploma in same from Queensland Institute of Natural Science, issued in 1985. I also have qualifications in massage therapy and this includes Chinese and Japanese as well as Swedish.

I have studied herbal medicine from native teachers for over 30 years in Singapore, Canada under a Mic mac Indian herbal master, my Maori relations in New Zealand and aboriginal healers in Australia. I am still learning from such people as it is an on going study that does not finish with a final examination.

While practising in New Zealand in the early 80s, I had my own clinic and treated many people for such things as Chronic Fatigue and Candida and ADD with success. I migrated to Australia in 1986 and saw that these maladies had taken a real hold. I ofered to teach the Australian naturopaths how to treat the people with these ailments and they just were not interested.

It was a bit of snobbism. They had big diplomas that said they had attended some wondeful college and my diploma was not so fancy. The real difference was that I was getting results where they were getting band-aid solutions.

Now it is a different story. Quite a lot of their patients have since come to me and have experienced complete recoveries. Now some of these same naturopaths are asking me quietly to share the knowledge with them.

I have taught only two, and they were not from the ones who laughed in the first place. These other two naturopaths are getting good results with my methods but they too do not seek publicity.

I am coming up to retirement age now and am still not impressed with the so-called establishment that resists change because they did not discover it first. I still travel widely and work with Chinese practitioners and Maori and US Indian herbalists. I still mix with my tribal brothers in the aboriginal nation in Australia and still get the results many others wish they could.

My methods use only natural means and no drugs or synthetic vitamins are used. It is mainly done using nutrition and cleanising with herbs and other natural products.

The treatment takes three to five weeks and cost is around $300 to $400 and needs be done only once.

I hope this gives you enough to go on. I will be writing an ebook on these subjects later so more genuine practitioners can learn something that is simple but very effective."

Ed. Note: Please remember, we do not endorse any treatments and strongly advise you to check with your doctor before using, stopping or changing any treatment

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