Author: Health Freedom Idaho

  • Buyer Beware: You HAVE To Read Labels

    HFI: Research your foods and learn to read labels. Healthy doesn’t necessarily mean free of harmful ingredients. 

    Food labeled “healthy” should be nutritious, low in added sugar, and free of trans fat and other harmful ingredients, right? Not according to the Food and Drug Administration’s current labeling guidelines.

    The rules for health claims on food products hasn’t been significantly updated since 1994, despite big advances in nutrition science.

    EWG Food Scores database has nutrition facts, ingredients and processing ratings on more than 80,000 products, and our Dietary Guidelines can help you create a healthy and nutritious diet for yourself and your family. 

    It’s clear the FDA needs to modernize its criteria for “healthy.” When we look for “healthy” foods in a grocery store, we are looking for foods that nourish our bodies and are not known to have harmful effects.

     By Dawn Undurraga, Nutritionist and Violet Batcha, Digital Media Manager
    This article originally appeared at: http://www.ewg.org/enviroblog/2017/05/buyer-beware-what-s-really-healthy-cereal.

  • Health Benefits of A Beautiful Flower

    Geranium plants repel mosquitoes!! Planted by doors and windows they can keep those pests from coming in the house. Geranium oil offers even more benefits. 

    Some of the most common geranium essential oil benefits are:

    • Balances hormones
    • Relieves stress
    • Reduces depression
    • Minimizes inflammation
    • Improves circulation
    • Alleviates the effects of menopause
    • Improves dental health
    • Reduces blood pressure
    • Benefits the health of your skin
    • Improves dental health

    When an essential oil like geranium oil can address serious health issues like these, then you need to try it! This is a natural and safe tool that will improve your skin, mood and internal health.

    5 Geranium Oil Uses

    1. Wrinkle Reducer – Because geranium oil is an astringent, it induces contractions in several parts of the body. It has the power to minimize the look of wrinkles because it tightens facial skin and slows down the effects of aging. Add two drops of geranium oil to your face lotion and apply it twice daily. After a week or two, you will see the look of your wrinkles begin to fade away.

    2. Muscle Toner – Geranium oil helps in tightening and contracting muscles – this is again due to its astringent properties. It can prevent your muscles and skin from sagging, and it can give you a more toned abdominal section. Create a massage oil by mixing five drops of geranium oil with one tablespoon of jojoba oil and massage it into your skin, focusing on your muscles.

    3. Infection Fighter – The antibacterial properties found in geranium oil help to protect your body from infection. Geranium oil can stop bacteria from growing on the skin, like on a wound. To do this, rub two drops of geranium oil onto the affected area and cover it with gauze; you can repeat this remedy twice a day until the wound or cut is healed. (2) 

    When you use geranium oil to fight external infection, your immune system can focus on your internal functions and keep you healthier. Athlete’s foot, for example, is a bacterial infection that can be cured with geranium oil. To do this, add give drops of geranium oil to a foot bath with warm water and sea salt; do this twice daily for the best results.

    4. Healing Helper – Geranium oil helps to speed up the healing process of cuts, wounds and incisions. It also helps in fading the look of scars and other spots on the skin quickly. Because geranium oil has powerful cicatrisant properties, it increases blood circulation right below the surface of the skin — this helps with the healing of spots caused by acne, cuts or wounds, surgical incisions or skin irritations.

    5. Blood Clot Inducer – Geranium oil causes the contraction of blood vessels and, therefore, helps to stop blood flow; it also speeds up the formation of blood clots. This helps in the healing of wounds or incisions, and it keeps toxins from entering the body. This health benefits will even help to prevent hemorrhoids. Try adding one drop of geranium oil to ice cream or frozen soy milk. You can also add the oil to a teaspoon of wheat germ or flaxseeds.

    Geranium Oil Benefits

    This article originally appeared at: https://draxe.com/10-geranium-oils-benefits-healthy-skin-much/.

  • Gardasil takes another life

    While the link between HPV and cancer remains obscured, there is no shortage of evidence that the Gardasil vaccine does more harm than good. The vaccine has been linked to causing cervical cysts, crippling autoimmune diseases and even destroying women’s ovaries. Merck has even admitted that they “forgot” to see how a vaccine that was initially targeted at young women might effect a key component of their reproductive systems – their ovaries. Some have even died almost immediately following vaccination.

    Despite the claims of safety being pushed out by the media, the medical industry and Big Pharma, the evidence that the Gardasil vaccine is a damaging injection continues to pile up. Even industry professionals have come forward to express their concerns. Dr. Dianne Harper, a leading HPV researcher that was involved in the approval of Gardasil, has cautioned, “Gardasil has been associated with at least as many serious adverse events as there are deaths from cervical cancer developing each year.”

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    Health Freedom Idaho is hosting the June 17 Children’s March for Humanity at Julia Davis Park in Boise as one of 25 cities holding simulatanous events nationwide. The Children’s March is a community building event uniting people and resources in cities across the nation to invoke change in the lives and health of our children now and in the future.

    VENDOR OPPORTUNITY / VENDOR REQUEST online form.

    This Community building event strives to:

    • Establish a venue for local and regional service providers, producers, and artisans to sell their product
    • Encourage one on one interaction
    • Provide a opportunity for small local enterprises to network with their target market
    • To educate, inform and bring awareness to the community of resources to help heal our children and reduce environmental toxins

    Target Audience:
     Local Families concerned about the health of children, environmental impact of chemicals, natural and organic foods, Holistic and Alternative Medical Care.

    Community Building/Networking:

     Opportunity for your staff/family to host the sale of products (or provide kid-centered activity) that promotes health and wellness. 

     SIGN UP using the VENDOR REQUEST online form.

    THIS EVENT OPPORTUNITIES INCLUDE:

    • Name/Contact added to day of event both print & webpage directory
    • MLM Health-Oriented Products Welcome
    • Hand made personal products Welcome *
    • Educational, Therapeutic Resources/Services Welcome
    •  2 Raffle Items (waives the table fee of $10)

    *food products must be licensed through Health Dept.

    This event does not require vendors to pay a percentage of gross sales back to the venue, those who do not provide their own table and raffle items will be charged table rent to set up.

  • Sponsor

    Health Freedom Idaho is hosting the June 17 Children’s March for Humanity at Julia Davis Park in Boise as one of 25 cities holding simulatanous events nationwide. The Children’s March is a community building event uniting people and resources in cities across the nation to invoke change in the lives and health of our children now and in the future.

    Thank you so much for the opportunity to serve the community through “Children’s March For Humanity”.  To fulfill the purpose of this event, we cordially invite you to partner with us as a donor or sponsor.  By partnering with us as a sponsor, we are thrilled to provide you several marketing benefits.  
    Please see the Fundraising Tiers below for more information on the various opportunities.  

    All funds collected are transparently allocated to expenses directly related to the multiple marches throughout the nation.  “Children’s March For Humanity” is in the process of establishing itself as a non-profit and It is our understanding your receipt may be filed as a tax deduction for the following tax season.

    ALL DONATION SIZES ARE ACCEPTED! Those wishing to donate smaller quantities will have their name listed on local event flyer and added to our online marketplace directory (to be completed by August 2017). 

    Vendor Table requests for $25 per table. CLOSES June 1, 2017. 

    If you would like to request a vendor table please constact info@healthfreedomidaho.com

    We will confirm the completion of your table reservation via e-mail and request any additional information needed within 3-5 business days of your submission.

    Please contact us with all questions and needed additional information.  Thank you!

  • Natural Remedy Activated Charcoal

    Julie: Our family found the benefits of activated charcoal when one of my children, highly sensative to a variety of foods, would vomit for days upon contamination. We tried every ‘remedy’ and discovered when given charcoal fast enough after exposure, we could elminate days and hours of his agony. We use it at the first sign of indigestion now and haven’t had to deal with that type of reaction in years. 

    Other Benefits of Activated Charcoal

    • The secret to an effective “whole body detox” might just be activated carbon (aka activated charcoal).

    • Ancient physicians used regular charcoal for a variety of medical purposes, including treating epilepsy and anthrax. Today, beyond use in hospitals as an antidote for drugs and poisons, activated charcoal is a global remedy for general detoxification and intestinal disorders.

    • The porous surface of activated charcoal has a negative electric charge that attracts positively charged toxins and poisons. It binds them, and escorts them out of your body through the elimination process of your intestines.

    • Activated charcoal is completely odorless, tasteless, and safe to consume and can be purchased in handy capsules or tablets.

    WHAT IS Activated Charcol?

    You make activated charcoal by burning a source of carbon (wood or debris or coconut shells). The high temperature removes all the oxygen and activates it with gases like steam. Basically the process that creates activated charcoal (steam heating and oxidation) ends up creating an adsorbent internal lattice of very fine pores that capture, bind, and remove poisons, heavy metals, chemicals, bacteria, toxins, and intestinal gases which have thousands of times more weight than the charcoal itself.

    It’s hard to believe, but just two grams of activated charcoal powder has about the same surface area as an entire NFL football field! The porous surface has a negative electric charge that attracts positively charged toxins and poisons; it binds them, and escorts them out of your body through the elimination process of your intestines.

    Detoxification

    Detoxifying Your Body With Activated Charcoal

    Toxins from low quality, GMO, processed food, and environmental pollution are real problems. It is important to help your body eliminate them to promote a healthy digestive system and brain. Chronic exposure to toxins produces cellular damage, allergic reactions, compromised immunity, and more rapid aging.

    Regular use of activated charcoal can remove unwanted toxins from your body, leaving you feeling renewed and more vibrant − often in minutes! Activated charcoal helps unwanted bacteria move through your system faster before they spread and multiply, helping you feel better faster. In addition, activated charcoal flushes out all the toxic heavy metals (such as arsenic, copper, mercury, and lead) that are stored in your body, sometimes for decades.

    The best long-term study on the detoxification benefits of activated charcoal was conducted by Professors David O. Cooney (University of Wyoming) and Thomas T. Struhsaker (Duke University). The two professors learned that the monkeys on the African island of Zanzibar eat charcoal from burned tree stumps in order to detoxify.

    I understand if the idea of swallowing a spoonful of what is essentially ash may not tickle your fancy.  However, activated charcoal is completely odorless, tasteless, and safe to consume and can be purchased in handy capsules or tablets. And it’s a powerful detoxifying agent to boot!

    This article originally appeared at: https://thetruthaboutcancer.com/detox-with-activated-charcoal/.

  • School & Health Dept Bully, Teen Commits Suicide.

    Today Jaden and I attended a funeral.

    Suicide happens when all hope is lost. We’re left to ask how, why, could this have been prevented, Can we learn from this and protect other students?

    As you may know our son was excluded from school for 19 school days due to 3 cases of mumps. Our sons grades have been greatly impacted by this unjust exclusion. It’s caused unnecessary harm to him socially, emotionally and academically.

    Our son had a friend that was a sophomore at his school. He had just turned 16. he too was excluded for 19 school days. I know his grades were suffering the same way my sons grades are suffering. For a high school student that has plans for certain colleges, bad grades are not an option. Now this friend of my son may have had other issues, grades and college might not be the only factor in his decision to take a gun to his head April 19th and end his life. But I do know, it was the final thing that pushed him to a breaking point. 

    Exclusions harm high school students.

    School exclusions hurt high school students more than anyone could have imagined. It causes such overwhelming stress and anxiety to these students. Who’s protecting them? The health department? The schools? I am worried for my own child. My son and every other child that got excluded is just as valuable as every other student that walks through those doors. A risky medical procedure shouldn’t be the defining point. I’ve been fighting this since January 24th. The health department and school districts knew that they were causing harm.

    Every student that’s been excluded deserves special attention and Guidance to get back on track with school today! We don’t want to hear the sob story about teacher contracts. Or the health department and schools pointing the finger at each other anymore. Don’t wait for “policy change” stand up and do what’s right for these kids. This exclusion shouldn’t harm kids futures and goals, yet it is

    The excluded kids who are back in school are now not only dealing with the hassle of trying to put their school careers back together, but facing the grief caused by the loss of one of their friends dying in a tragic manner.

    Here are my public comments to the Spokane Health Board. I cried through the entire 3 mins nobody was laughing last Thursday.

    My original intent in attending the meeting today was to correct the numerous misrepresentations in Dr. Lubers vaccine cheerleading session last month.

    However, something has occurred that is much more important that I want to address with you. On April 19th, one of my son’s friends took a gun and shot himself in the head.

    He explained in a letter why he felt that this was the only way to end his suffering. He said that the pressure of trying to keep his schoolwork up to the grades needed to gain entrance into his target college was too much to bear.

    Teen suicide is disturbingly common, listed as the 2nd or 3rd cause of death, and school pressure is a huge part of that stress. Teens succumb to this pressure all the time.

    He had the additional burden of being part of the useless Mumps exclusion, and was kept out of school for 19 class days. The schools failed him. I will be addressing them, too, but they claim they must follow the Health Department’s recommendations.


    This board heard sincere, honest, direct testimony of the distress the exclusion was causing to exempt students and their families. The board also was informed that due to the nature of this outbreak there was no Public Health benefit to be achieved by excluding exempt students.

    These children were under tremendous pressure with their schoolwork because the exclusion spanned finals week. On return they are expected to pass tests for which they were not fully prepared, on top of catching up assignments. Added to that they’re saddled with the threat that at any time another Mumps case could emerge and put them back out of school for several more weeks.

    I know that my son would have been devastated if the exclusion had prevented him from playing baseball. His friend was a wrestler, the exclusion started during the season and must have been forced off the team, compounding the academic disappointments.

    Make no mistake that the misery this boy experienced is intentional. The professional organizations our Health Officials belong to have written, adopted policy to discourage exemption use by making it as difficult as possible for a family to exercise their legal right to exempt.

    Excluding unvaccinated in an outbreak where the majority of sick are vaccinated

     Exclusion is one of their most offensive tactics. Their strategy is to hold the student’s education hostage. They stigmatize, ostracize, and isolate exempting students, to harass and coerce them to abandon their Personal, Philosophical, or Religious objection and submit to the Health Department’s vaccine agenda.

    It is sadly ironic that in pretending the exclusion was helping stop the spread of a near harmless infection, the Health Department and Education System potentially contributed to a suicide mortality, which is a real and legitimate threat to teens.

     Are School and Health Department personnel so myopically focused on vaccine compliance they overlooked this as a potential risk outcome to a vulnerable student? Where is the study to show that this a safe practice? Spokane Public Health Department is promoting exclusions of students when this is known to increase the risk of teen suicide.

     If this boy had not been excluded for a month it is entirely possible his stress level could have remained manageable, and he could have survived his sophomore year of High School. It would have just been a tough year, one he looked back at during Graduation and said, “It was touch and go there for a while, but I made it”.

     Instead, I will be attending his funeral Saturday. Shame on you for hijacking this outbreak to push your vaccine zealotry.

    Rest in peace young man❤️

    Jaclyn Gallion

  • Gardasil The Decision We will always regret

    Gardasil has been the subject of controversy for many years now. In fact, it has even been regarded as one of the most dangerous vaccines on the market today. Perhaps what is most alarming about this treacherous vaccine, however, is the fact that its manufacturer, Merck & Co, now wants to begin marketing their product to infants – and trials on babies have already begun. Merck recently launched a Gardasil vaccine trial on children at least one year old, and it’s set to conclude in early 2017.

    You read that right. A pharmaceutical giant is testing a vaccine for an STD on babies. It doesn’t really get more corrupt and outrageous than that, now does it?

    Gardasil was developed for the STD known as HPV, and was approved by the FDA in 2006. The disease did not become of concern until the 1980s, when research first suggested that there may be a link between HPV and cervical cancer. However, whether this link actually exists has been a major point of contention. There are several hypotheses that explain why HPV may not actually cause cancer, but one particularly interesting theory was expressed by McCormack et al in their paper published by the journal Molecular Cytogenetics in 2015. The research team also raised several significant questions about the prevailing theory on the connection between HPV and cervical cancer. For example, HPV is present in 70 to 80 percent of the American adult population, so why does cervical cancer only effect one out of ever 10,000 women?

    While the link between HPV and cancer remains obscured, there is no shortage of evidence that the Gardasil vaccine does more harm than good. The vaccine has been linked to causing cervical cysts, crippling autoimmune diseases and even destroying women’s ovaries. Merck has even admitted that they “forgot” to see how a vaccine that was initially targeted at young women might effect a key component of their reproductive systems – their ovaries. Some have even died almost immediately following vaccination.

    Despite the claims of safety being pushed out by the media, the medical industry and Big Pharma, the evidence that the Gardasil vaccine is a damaging injection continues to pile up. Even industry professionals have come forward to express their concerns. Dr. Dianne Harper, a leading HPV researcher that was involved in the approval of Gardasil, has cautioned, “Gardasil has been associated with at least as many serious adverse events as there are deaths from cervical cancer developing each year.”

  • Food Affects How You Feel

    Harvard Health affirms that food affects how you feel. Your diet matters SO MUCH MORE than you think. 

    Beat anxiety and depression by eating eating more fruits and vegetables!

    “Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that helps regulate sleep and appetite, mediate moods, and inhibit pain. Since about 95% of your serotonin is produced in your gastrointestinal tract, and your gastrointestinal tract is lined with a hundred million nerve cells, or neurons, it makes sense that the inner workings of your digestive system don’t just help you digest food, but also guide your emotions. What’s more, the function of these neurons — and the production of neurotransmitters like serotonin — is highly influenced by the billions of “good” bacteria that make up your intestinal microbiome.”

    Start paying attention to how eating different foods makes you feel — not just in the moment, but the next day. Try eating a “clean” diet for two to three weeks — that means cutting out all processed foods and sugar. Add fermented foods like kimchi, miso, sauerkraut, pickles, or kombucha. You also might want to try going dairy-free — and some people even feel that they feel better when their diets are grain-free. See how you feel. Then slowly introduce foods back into your diet, one by one, and see how you feel.

    When my patients “go clean,” they cannot believe how much better they feel both physically and emotionally, and how much worse they then feel when they reintroduce the foods that are known to enhance inflammation. Give it a try!

    Make sure these fruits and vegetables are free from glyphosate and the Roundup product.

    Scientific studies have also discovered that glyphosate is an endocrine distruptor and can cause mental instability and mood disorders. 

    Tryptophan is an α-amino acid that is used in the biosynthesis of proteins.  Tryptophan is an essential amino acid in humans, meaning that the body cannot synthesize it: it must be obtained from the diet through plant and animal sources that include grains, nuts, oats, wheat, and eggs (list not exhaustive). Tryptophan is also a precursor to the neurotransmitter serotonin and the hormone melatonin.  Tryptophan deficiency can lead to lower serotonin levels. This can result in mood disorders, such as depression.

    Serotonin also impacts every part of your body, from your emotions to your motor skills. Serotonin is considered a natural mood stabilizer. It’s the neurotransmitter that helps with sleeping, eating, and digesting.

    Glyphosate works in plants by disrupting the plants shikimate pathway.  The shikimate pathway is involved with the synthesis of the essential amino acids, phenylalanine, tyrosine, and tryptophan.  When we consume Roundup treated plants, we do not get the needed amino acids like tryptophan necessary for the synthesis of serotonin.

    Another interesting point about glyphosate is that because of its chelating (binding and removing) abilities, it also reduces calcium and magnesium levels.

    From the Harvard Health Blog:

    Think about it. Your brain is always “on.” It takes care of your thoughts and movements, your breathing and heartbeat, your senses — it works hard 24/7, even while you’re asleep. This means your brain requires a constant supply of fuel. That “fuel” comes from the foods you eat — and what’s in that fuel makes all the difference. Put simply, what you eat directly affects the structure and function of your brain and, ultimately, your mood.

    Like an expensive car, your brain functions best when it gets only premium fuel. Eating high-quality foods that contain lots of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants nourishes the brain and protects it from oxidative stress — the “waste” (free radicals) produced when the body uses oxygen, which can damage cells.

    Unfortunately, just like an expensive car, your brain can be damaged if you ingest anything other than premium fuel. If substances from “low-premium” fuel (such as what you get from processed or refined foods) get to the brain, it has little ability to get rid of them. Diets high in refined sugars, for example, are harmful to the brain. In addition to worsening your body’s regulation of insulin, they also promote inflammation and oxidative stress. Multiple studies have found a correlation between a diet high in refined sugars and impaired brain function — and even a worsening of symptoms of mood disorders, such as depression.

    It makes sense. If your brain is deprived of good-quality nutrition, or if free radicals or damaging inflammatory cells are circulating within the brain’s enclosed space, further contributing to brain tissue injury, consequences are to be expected. What’s interesting is that for many years, the medical field did not fully acknowledge the connection between mood and food.

    Today, fortunately, the burgeoning field of nutritional psychiatry is finding there are many consequences and correlations between not only what you eat, how you feel, and how you ultimately behave, but also the kinds of bacteria that live in your gut.

    How the foods you eat affect how you feel read more here http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/nutritional-psychiatry-your-brain-on-food-201511168626.

    For more information on this topic, please see: Nutritional medicine as mainstream in psychiatry, Sarris J, et al. Lancet Psychiatry. 2015

    The field of Nutritional Psychiatry is relatively new, however there are observational data regarding the association between diet quality and mental health across countries, cultures and age groups – depression in particular. Here are links to some systematic reviews and meta-analyses:

    http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/99/1/181.long
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23720230
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4167107/

    There are also now two interventions suggesting that dietary improvement can prevent depression:

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3848350/
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4050338/

    Diet during early life is also linked to mental health outcomes in children (very important from public health perspective):

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24074470
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25524365 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23541912

    Extensive animal data show that dietary manipulation affects brain plasticity and there are now data from humans to suggest the same:

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4563885/

    Finally, while there are yet to be published RCTs testing dietary improvement as a treatment strategy for depression, the first of these is underway and results will be published within six months:

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3636120/

  • Our Kids Are So Very Sick

    Our Children are bombarded with toxins, overwhelmed with chronic illness and neurological disabilities. Join other families we come together as ONE VOICE on behalf of our children’s health and future. 

    Children’s March for Humanity will be hosted in cities nationwide. Communities coming together with the same concerns about our children’s health.
    JOIN US IN BOISE At Julia Davis Park    BECOME A SPONSOR of this event.

    1 in 6 have learning disabilities

    1 in 12 have asthma

    1 in 10 have ADHD

    1 in 13 have food allergies

    1 in 20 have seizures

    1 in 68 have autism

    1 in 42 boys have autism

    HALF of our children have a chronic illness or are overweight.

    Learning Disabilities:

    https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/developmentaldisabilities/about.html

    Recent estimates in the United States show that about one in six, or about 15%, of children aged 3 through 17 years have a one or more developmental disabilities.1(https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/developmentaldisabilities/about.html#ref) Developmental disabilities are a group of conditions due to an impairment in physical, learning, language, or behavior areas. These conditions begin during the developmental period, may impact day-to-day functioning, and usually last throughout a person’s lifetime.2(https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/developmentaldisabilities/about.html#ref)

    In 2013–14, the number of children and youth ages 3–21 receiving special education services was 6.5 million, or about 13 percent of all public school students. Among students receiving special education services, 35 percent had specific learning disabilities. –https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=64https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=64

    Some reports estimate that as many as 15% to 20% of Americans are affected by learning disabilities and disorders. https://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/learning/conditioninfo/Pages/risk.aspxhttps://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/learning/conditioninfo/Pages/risk.aspx

    Asthma:

    The number of people with asthma continues to grow. One in 12 people (about 25 million, or 8% of the population) had asthma in 2009, compared with 1 in 14 (about 20 million, or 7%) in 2001.
    Asthma is one of the most common chronic disorders affecting children.[1] It is estimated that 6.3 million children under the age of 18 have asthma in the United States.[2] Asthma is the third leading cause of hospitalization among children under age 15, and in 2008 was associated with an estimated 10.5 million missed school days.[3] The combination of illness-related absence (due to doctors’ visits as well as to illness), and potential asthma emergencies in the classroom, reduces student and teacher productivity,[4] and can negatively affect children’s academic performance.

    https://www.cdc.gov/asthma/asthmadata.htm
    https://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/learning/conditioninfo/Pages/risk.aspx


    ADHD

    One in 10 children and teens has been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a new government report.

    http://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/childhood-adhd/news/20150514/cdc-1-in-10-children-diagnosed-with-adhd

    11% of children 4-17 years of age (6.4 million) have ever been diagnosed with ADHD as of 2011
     https://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/learning/conditioninfo/Pages/risk.aspx
    The American Psychiatric Association (APA) says that 5 percent of American children have ADHD. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) puts the number at more than double the APA’s number. The CDC says that 11 percent of American children, ages 4 to 17, have the attention disorder.

    Food Allergies

    Researchers estimate that up to 15 million Americans have food allergies according to cdc.gov

    1. This potentially deadly disease affects 1 in every 13 children (under 18 years of age) in the U.S. That’s roughly two in every classroom.
    2. The economic cost of children’s food allergies is nearly $25 billion per year.

      https://www.foodallergy.org/facts-and-stats

      • Every 3 minutes, a food allergy reaction sends someone to the emergency department – that is more than 200,000 emergency department visits per year. 
      • A reaction to food can range from a mild response (such as an itchy mouth) to anaphylaxis, a severe and potentially deadly reaction.
      • The U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported that food allergies result in more than 300,000 ambulatory-care visits a year among children under the age of 18. 
      • Food allergy is the leading cause of anaphylaxis outside the hospital setting.


      SEIZURES
      According to the latest estimates, about 1.8% of adults aged 18 years or older have had a diagnosis of epilepsy or seizure disorder.
      When applied to the 2013 population, this is about 750,000 children aged 0-17 years.2

      When counting both children and adults, about 5.1 million people in the United States have had a diagnosis of epilepsy or a seizure disorder.1-3

      Kobau R, Luo Y, PhD, Zack M, Helmers S, Thurman D. Epilepsy in adults and access to care — United States, 2012. MMWR. 2012;61(45);909-913. Accessed February 2, 2016. [PDF-863KB] . 

      US Census Bureau, Population Division [database online]. Annual estimates of the resident population by sex, age, race, and Hispanic origin for the United States, States, and Counties: April 1, 2010, to July 1, 2013. Release Date: June 2014. html. Accessed February 2, 2015.AUTISM

    AUTISM


    CDC https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/data.html reports that 1 in 68 children has been diagnosed with autism. 1 in 6 has learning disabilities.

    Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health contributed to a new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that finds the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) largely unchanged from two years ago, at one in 68 children (or 1.46 percent). Boys were 4.5 times more likely to be identified with ASD than girls, an established trend. The rate is one in 42 among boys and one in 189 among girls.

    ASD is a developmental disorder characterized by social and communication impairments, limited interest and repetitive behaviors. Early diagnosis and intervention are important to improving learning and skills. Rates have been rising since the 1960s, but researchers do not know how much of this rise is due to more children being diagnosed with ASD or if actual cases are increasing or a combination of both. The CDC’s first prevalance report, which was released in 2007 and was based on 2000 and 2002 data, found that one in 150 children had ASD.

    For this new report, the CDC collected data at 11 regional monitoring sites that are part of the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network in the following states: Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah, and Wisconsin. The Maryland monitoring site is based at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.