Healing Children's Attention

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Author: Hoffer Abram
Published: April 2004
Publisher: CCNM Press
Number of pages: 268
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Product Description:

This book recommends against pharmaceutical (Ritalin, for example), psychotherapeutic, and surgical intervention in favor of a combination of allergy prevention and optimum nutrition from common foods with vitamin and mineral supplements.

About the Author:

Abram Hoffer (November 11, 1917 – May 27, 2009) was a Canadian biochemist, physician and psychiatrist who developed a theory that nutrition and vitamins may be effective treatments for schizophrenia. This general approach is not considered credible within the medical community. It includes the use of large doses of vitamins and is commonly called megavitamin therapy in general. Hoffer is also known for his "adrenochrome hypothesis" of schizoaffective disorders and protocols for remediation based on natural compounds such as vitamins, minerals and specific fats. Hoffer was also involved in the discovery that high dose niacin can be used to treat high cholesterol and other dyslipidemias