Health Care

TV and ADHD

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This article has an interesting discussion of the relation of childhood television watching to the increase in ADHD cases:

�The study revealed that each hour of television watched per day at ages 1 through 3 increases the risk of attention problems by almost 10 percent at age 7,�…
Plenty of debate in the article.
Of course, putting large numbers of children in prison like settings 7-8 hours per day is bound to cause some of them to get a bit antsy.

Under Their Thumb

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There is some truth to Trish Wilson’s point:

…quite a bit of psychology is really about the people with power regulating the behavior of the people they wish to control.
Hmmm, this makes me think about all those drugged school kids.
Ever heard of drapetomania? No, likely not. Go over to Trish’s and read about it.

Sit Up Straight

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Apparently sitting back and relaxing is not as good for you as it feels:

Slumping in front of the television or computer could deactivate muscles that support and protect your spine, triggering many otherwise inexplicable cases of lower back pain.
It takes a bit of effort but, yes, you can sit up straight in the car, on the bus, and in your living room.
You know the mantra: just do it.

People are Crazy

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This pretty much confirms what you’ve been thinking everytime you are out and about:

Crazy people outnumber alcoholics!- The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (part of the National Institutes of Health) surveyed 43,000 Americans and came up with the following data;
* 11% have some type of anxiety disorder (panic attacks, phobias).
* 9.2% have some type of mood disorder (depression, manic depressive).
* 8.5% have an alcohol dependence problem.
* 2% have a problem with drug abuse.
* 15% can be classified as having some type of personality disorder!
Sure there is some cross over or, as the professionals say, comorbidity but this confirms that there are a lot of screwed up people out on the street today.
Chris Rangel has more to say about this.

It is time…

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…to read Respectful of Otters! Powerful. Also, be sure to read the supporting material that Rivka links.
Abortion is a complex issue. Rana notes in the first comment to the above post:

And that, in a nutshell, explains why black-and-white, one-size-fits-all decisions and laws do an injustice to our complex, complicated realities. Thanks for the reminder, expressed so beautifully!
Which is a pretty good reason to eliminate 98-100% of local, state and federal legislative activity.
Via Electrolite.