Once upon a time there was a poignant script for the popular television show Twilight Zone in which a man who could see finds himself in a land of the blind, and the consequences for him aren't pretty. Those of us in the Alliance for Addiction Solutions (who daily face the frustrating blind ignorance of most treatment programs about nutrition) can sympathize to the depths of our souls. And when we find a fellow traveler on the road to wellness who understands nutrition's role in addiction treatment it is time to cheer. Stan up, Alliance! It's time to cheer!
Pam Killeen, a Canadian writer from London, Ontario, has just published a book born of and about us, The Alliance for Addiction Solutions! We as an organization figure prominently in her book, which is titled Addiction, The Hidden Epidemic, and subtitled Common Sense Solutions for Our #1 Health Problem. Interviews with individual Alliance members compose an entire section. It was, in fact, our own founding member, Charles Gant, MD, PhD, whose lecture in Chicago a couple years ago inspired Pam to write the book. Then, soon after, she heard British physician and autism expert Natasha Campbell-McBride talking about the new generation of addicts we are creating by drugging our children and Killeen was hooked on the project. In addition to Gant on pharmaceuticals vs nutrients for brain repair and Campbell-McBride on kids, Killeen interviewed David Miller, PhD on "dry drunks" and diets for ADD, Joan Mathews-Larson proper testing and carbohydrate addiction, Julia Ross MFT on individualized aminos and symptom questionnaires, Stan Stokes on the many signs of neurotransmitter imbalance from earliest childhood, and myself on the link between criminal behavior and malnourishment.
Addiction covers other self-medicating behaviors, including Internet and shopping addictions as well as the unsatisfactory use of pharmaceuticals in a vain attempt to re-adjust unhappy brains. However, the majority of the book is focused on food, supplements, and the West's perverse resistance to recognizing the many studies proving animal fats are an essential component of a healthy mind. Killeen is a devoted advocate of the work of the Weston A. Price Foundation and offers extensive discussion of Price and other nutrition pioneers living and dead.
This is the book to buy for Christmas presents for your teen relative who's a budding social critic and toying with vegetarianism, your local talk show host whose searching for a meaty controversy to chew over on-air, that aunt who is on multiple meds and still feeling blue, and your physician if he or she is eager to have answers for patient questions about their cravings and moods.
Recently while publicizing the book Killeen was shouted down by belligerent vegans. Killeen herself was a vegan for 9 years, until she learned her lack of animal protein was contributing to debilitating chronic fatigue. She understands the fierceness of those whose lives are deficient in nutrients that nourish the brain. It was standing room only at her presentation when the vegans were, she reports, screaming at her. "The rest of the room was rolling their eyes and thinking to themselves these people obviously were not well," she says. "They were inattentive, impulsive, and angry, the three symptoms of B-12 deficiency."
Hopefully, many thousands of rational people will embrace the research and the stories Killeen respectfully offers them in Addiction, let go of their prejudices, and use what we in the Alliance know works to return an irritated mind back to civility and blind resistance to neuronutrition to enlightenment-at least about the healing power of nutrition.
Addiction
ISBN 978-1-4535-0373-7 for softcover edition
Also available as hard cover or e-book
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