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On Mon, 19 May 1997, Andrew S. Bonci, BA, DC, DAAPM wrote:
> theory proposes that the tired, sleepy, fuzzy-headed child is
> hyperactive as a desparate attempt to "STAY AWAKE" or to "FORCE
> THEMSELVES INTO THE PRESENT. This seems plausible when one considers
> even a single episode of becoming drowsey while driving a car and
> literally STRUGGLING to stay awake and not succomb to overpowering
> gravitational forces of sleep. Remember? You breath deeper, move
> rapidly, perhaps even scream, sing or otherwise become "hyperkinetic".
You know, this explains why an upper like ritalen makes these
kids calmer.
> I urge my students to avoid carbohydrate dense, specifically
> glucose-laden, meals prior to an examination. Those who yield to this
> advice report feeling better about exams and I can say that anecdotally,
> they perform better as well. I also have a handful of students with
> diagnoses of ADD. They also report doing much better on a
> Neanderthin-like program.
I'm definately going to be eating lots of pemican on exam days.
Before I would try megadoses of cafeen and suger, but they didn't work as
well as I had hoped.
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