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Diet Connection
Most people today are aware that phosphate run-off from cleaning products, fertillizers and other agri-chemicals has a highly damaging effect on our natural eco-systems. Environmentally concerned people all over the world very quickly instigated successful programs to protect plants, waterways, marine life, etc. In contrast, few people realize that today's phosphate-rich foods and soft drinks pose an equally serious health hazard to sensitive children and adults. This web site draws your attention to the connection between ADD and the phosphate-rich diet in today's "developed"
countries. We wish to show you how to recognize foods that are high in phosphate and we
provide detailed and vital information on Hertha Hafer's research work. This specific
page also discusses the connection between phosphate-rich food and other serious health
conditions.
Characteristics and pH Test
You may be unsure
whether you or your child are affected by phosphate or not. What are the symptoms? Phosphates play an all important role in controlling our bodies pH regulatory system.
Find out here what your saliva pH is.
A list of
twenty-five key questions is presented to help you work out whether this
condition affects your family, along with a simple diagnostic pH saliva test you can conduct
at home for further confirmation.
Stories
Read actual case
histories which illustrate the remarkable results which can be achieved by
following Hafer's recommendations. Do you too have a story to tell? Please contact us if you would like to share your experiences. We would love to hear from you, especially as your story will help others recognize the problem with phosphate.
Supportive Evidence
This very important link cites a number of independent research reports by research
scientists and paediatricians which, when taken together, paint a broad picture which is
strongly supportive of various aspects of Hertha Hafer's theory.
Foods
This page contains a short
summary list of problem foods and lists of phosphate additives to enable
you to identify packaged and other foods that contain added phosphate. Unfortunately food manufacturers are not required to list each additive separately. Often the phosphates are simply listed as mineral salts, emulsifiers, lecithin, thickeners, etc.
Low-Phosphate Diet
These pages have an introduction to the low-phosphate diet, 5 good reasons for switching to this diet and recommendations on how to get started.
Recipes
Here you will find a collection of delicious and nutritious recipes to help you get started with the Hafer-diet.
The Book
& Order
The Hidden Drug - Dietary Phosphate, which one health professional described to us as "a valuable gem", is a translation of: Die Heimliche Droge
Nahrungsphosphat: Ursache für Verhaltungsstörungen, Schulversagen und
Jugendkriminalität. The English translation is available from this link.
Recommendations and book reviews:
Here is what the health experts say... "I have enjoyed your book very much, and feel it's a masterful work, thank you for all your work."
George Atkeson
Analytical Nutritionist from Michigan, US "At the moment people are completely left in the dark - as far as ADD is concerned. I believe knowledge is as important if not more than medicine.
The Hidden Drug - Dietary Phosphate gives parents and sufferers alike a chance to balance their lives, in an easy scientific way."
Jay d. Mulder B.Hlth.Sc.
Cert. Ayurveda, Dip. Nutr., Dip. Herb. Australia
Member, Australian Traditional Medicine Society
& Australasian Ayurvedic Practitioner Association
Click the link above for more professional opinions on The Hidden Drug - Dietary Phosphate.
Feedback
This page is for your feedback. Please don't hesitate to e-mail in to
us any questions you may have, testimonials of your experience with the diet or other contributions to the ADD/ADHD-debate. You may e-mail us even if you do not wish to publicize your story, we respect your privacy and do not put anything on our website without prior permission.
Copyright
This website is
copyright: PhosADD Australia, 2001. We hereby grant permission to visitors
to copy sections of the information contained in this website and to pass
it on to other persons, provided that
any material so copied shall be reproduced without alteration, with the
source acknowledged, and that such copied shall not be made for financial
gain.
We encourage visitors to book mark this drug-free attention deficit site and to recommend it to
their family, friends and acquaintances.
Contact & Disclaimer
This site has been
developed by Jane Donlin (translator of The Hidden Drug - Dietary Phosphate) and
Richard Jeffreys (a high school language teacher) who live in Western Australia. Read 'about us' on this page. Our mail address is here or you can use the e-mail box on any page to contact us. We welcome your input and endeavour to reply to all queries within a week.
Please read the disclaimer before you make any use of the information
provided in this website.
Here are our Aims:
PhosADD Australia is a non-profit organisation. We are not sponsored by drug companies, food industry or anybody else. Merely private funding and the proceeds from the sales of our book help keep our site online. The information online is extensive, factual and it is free! We at no stage try to talk you into buying expensive products, CDs, course material or whatever. Indeed, apart from one small inexpensive book that is loaded with valuable information, we do not have any products to sell. You don't even have to buy the book to gain the benefits, there is more than enough information online for you to make the change. If the low-phosphate diet works for you, it will not only save you immense heart break but also huge amounts of money spent on health assessments and professional advice. Please support us by writing to us and by recommending our site to your family and friends. If you experience significant change, please tell us about it. Tell your friends, your family, your teachers, your doctor. There is no financial gain for us. Only engines of wealth such as the huge pharmaceutical companies, the food industry and the medical establishment benefit financially from the ADHD pandemic.
Instead we aim to:
- expose the hard truth about dietary phosphate's effect on children's and on adult's health and well-being.
- make Hertha Hafer's pioneering research results available to individuals and
families world-wide by expressing our concern about the high levels of added phosphate in our food.
- enable people with and without ADD/ADHD to seek and exchange information.
- encourage people with high sensitivities to change to a healthier, happier and more balanced lifestyle.
- accumulate funds to be used for the work of disseminating this
information and for further research work.
If you would like to support us in our endeavour to expose the truth, please contact us.
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