The Bodybuilders Nutrition Book or Ritalin Is Not the Answer

The Bodybuilder's Nutrition Book, Vol. 1

Author: Franco Columbo

Dr. Franco Columbo, a well-known expert on nutrition and kinesiology (and two-time Mr. Olympia) presents the most successful strategies and diet plans for achieving a superior physique. How the body utilizes the basic nutrients and how to use that to your advantage is explained in detail.

Publishers Weekly

Most bodybuilders realize the vital role nutrition plays in their progress, and the savvy seek enlightened assistance on understanding their body's use of nutrients, vitamins and minerals. But those looking for more than rudimentary guidance will have difficulty finding it amidst Columbo's jumble of personal reminiscences, warmed-over textbook-ishness, meal plans, and pro forma warnings on steroids and other harmful substances. Woman bodybuilders will also be frustrated by the scant attention paid to their special nutritional needs. Columbo is a two-time Mr. Olympia, and former training partner of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who became a doctor of chiropractics and nutrition. Photos not seen by PW. October

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Ritalin Is Not the Answer: A Drug-Free, Practical Program for Children Diagnosed with ADD or ADHD

Author: David B Stein PhD

At Last! A Healthy, Drug-Free Alternative to Ritalin
Nearly one-tenth of all school-aged children in the United States are being coerced into taking mood-altering drugs with side effects that include insomnia, tearfulness, rebound irritability, personality change, nervousness, anorexia, nausea, dizziness, headaches, heart palpitations, and cardiac arrhythmia. These are the children diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit with hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Ritalin Is Not the Answer confronts and challenges what has become common practice and teaches parents and educators a healthy, comprehensive behavioral program that really works as an alternative to the epidemic use of medication-without teaching children to use drugs in order to handle their behavioral and emotional problems.

Harlan Gephart

This book is written to counteract the current medical practice of medicating (usually with Ritalin or stimulant medication) children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD. The author does not accept these as diagnostic entities, but rather blames parenting deficiencies (""unintentional neglect"") as the major cause of ADD and ADHD, which he redefines respectively as ""inattention"" and ""highly misbehaving."" In doing so, he ignores a great deal of current scientific data from Great Britain, Norway, and the U.S., which are clearly demonstrations of the scientific basis of ADHD for most children. The purpose is to counteract the use of medication by providing a behavioral approach to parenting to serve as an alternative treatment program. The audience is primarily the parents of children manifesting these problems, and to a lesser extent educators and healthcare providers. Despite an emphasis on cognitive therapy (i.e., changing the child's behavior by changing his/her thinking), the author describes rather contemporary and well-accepted behavioral techniques including ignoring, reinforcement, time-out, and reinforcement removal. I feel the sections on identifying target behaviors and the school daily report card are particularly well stated and can be helpful to parents. Unfortunately the helpful material found in the later sections of the book are negated to some extent by the overwhelming bias against medication treatment in the earlier sections. Statements implicating Ritalin usage in childhood as either resulting in addiction or substance abuse in adolescence, have not been found to be true in recent scientific inquiry, and do a disservice to the management of this difficult andcomplex disorder, particularly since recent research (e.g., NIMH, MTA, study 1999) demonstrates that medication plus behavioral therapy gives the best results in ADHD.

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Reviewer: Harlan R. Gephart, MD (University of Washington School of Medicine)
Description: This book is written to counteract the current medical practice of medicating (usually with Ritalin or stimulant medication) children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD. The author does not accept these as diagnostic entities, but rather blames parenting deficiencies ("unintentional neglect") as the major cause of ADD and ADHD, which he redefines respectively as "inattention" and "highly misbehaving." In doing so, he ignores a great deal of current scientific data from Great Britain, Norway, and the U.S., which are clearly demonstrations of the scientific basis of ADHD for most children.
Purpose: The purpose is to counteract the use of medication by providing a behavioral approach to parenting to serve as an alternative treatment program.
Audience: The audience is primarily the parents of children manifesting these problems, and to a lesser extent educators and healthcare providers.
Features: Despite an emphasis on cognitive therapy (i.e., changing the child's behavior by changing his/her thinking), the author describes rather contemporary and well-accepted behavioral techniques including ignoring, reinforcement, time-out, and reinforcement removal. I feel the sections on identifying target behaviors and the school daily report card are particularly well stated and can be helpful to parents.
Assessment: Unfortunately the helpful material found in the later sections of the book are negated to some extent by the overwhelming bias against medication treatment in the earlier sections. Statements implicating Ritalin usage in childhood as either resulting in addiction or substance abuse in adolescence, have not been found to be true in recent scientific inquiry, and do a disservice to the management of this difficult and complex disorder, particularly since recent research (e.g., NIMH, MTA, study 1999) demonstrates that medication plus behavioral therapy gives the best results in ADHD.

Rating

2 Stars from Doody

Table of Contents:

	Foreword	ix
	Preface	xv
1.	What Are We Doing to Our Children?	1
2.	Understanding the Myths of Attentional Disorders	19
3.	The Importance of Effective Parenting	39
4.	Beginning the Caregivers' Skills Program	53
5.	Improving Behaviors	75
6.	Punishment	93
7.	Beginning to Learn Discipline	103
8.	Using Time Out Correctly for the IA or HM Child	115
9.	Reinforcement Removal for Very Difficult Behaviors	131
10.	Improving School Performance	137
11.	Helping the IA or HM Child to Feel Better	159
12.	Ten Ways to Stop Creating an Attentional Disorder Child	169
	Appendix	175
	References	177
	The Author	189
	Index	191