- "Let thy Food be thy Medicine and thy Medicine be thy Food." - Hippocrates
About Betty Hooper
Betty (Lily May) Hooper was an insightful, practical and caring woman who loved to help children. She investigated the “ADD & ADHD” issue for more than 32 years. As well as conducting many of her own case studies, she traveled to “ADD & ADHD”-free Cuba, where she discovered children’s diets were typically healthy and free of junk food and fizzy drinks, such as Coca-Cola.
Betty regarded the number of children being misdiagnosed with “ADD & ADHD” and put on Ritalin unnecessarily as appalling and so educated the public about the “ADD & ADHD” hoax for more than a decade, often entirely at her own expense.
In 2020, Betty was awarded a Civic Honours by the Whangarei District Council, for her work for the benefit of her community.
Following her death on March the 21st, 2023 at 103-years of age, a foundation was established in order to ensure that the issues that were important to Betty, continue to be promoted.
If you wish to donate to The Betty Hooper Foundation, please do so at 02-0139-0000945-03. For further information contact Kate Hornblow at katehornblow@vivid.net.nz, ph 027-418-1521. Thank-you.
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90-Year-Old NZ Activist: The Causes Of ADD & ADHD – Why Ritalin Is Not The Solution
By Clare Swinney, 5th February 2011
(Betty Hooper turned 91 on February the 7th, 2011).
For over 25 years, 90-year-old former special needs teacher Betty Hooper collected evidence relating to the treatment of children diagnosed with ADD, (Attention Deficit Disorder) and ADHD, (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). In this 11.23 minute long video, which was filmed at the Whangarei Public Library on February the 1st and 2nd, she talks about some of what she has learnt and offers advice on how to treat hyperactivity.
Mrs Hooper is an independent researcher and not affiliated with any group.
She is well qualified to talk about this topic, as she says she is old enough to have witnessed a deterioration of children’s behavior over the decades. In addition, she self-funded a research trip to Cuba in late-2005, in order to compare the diets and behaviors among children there, with those of children in New Zealand.
Superwoman In Her 90th Year Shares Her Ideas On How To Stay Healthy
By Clare Swinney, September 8th, 2009
Betty Hooper recently returned from a seven-week long holiday to Europe and displayed the tattoos she got while in Denmark. Her tattooist said she was the oldest client he had ever had. She said she did it for a dare. In light of the fact that Hooper, who will be 90 years old on her next birthday, still has her good health, a canny intellect and a love of life, while many her age are winding down, this is about her and her personal recipe for living a long, healthy life. Continue reading
Posted in New Zealand
FACTS & FIGURES RELATED TO HYPERACTIVITY
Below are a few facts regarding research on hyperactivity:
1910 Dr George Gould discovered a relationship re: diet and behavior.
1940 Professor Ben Feingold ran trials regarding artificial colourings, flavourings, preservatives plus salicylates, regarding diet. Continue reading
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CHILDRENS’ & ADULTS’ SYMPTOMS OF HYPERACTIVITY
PRE_BIRTH: Extreme activity in the womb. Prolonged hiccups. Vigorous kicking, (some mothers have complained of bruised ribs).
BABY-HOOD SYMPTOMS: Long period of screaming and crying. Stomach pains.
Colic and projectile vomiting. Wriggly and very difficult to hold or cuddle. May not crawl before walking. Seems to need less sleep than other children. Stiff jerky movements. Feeding problems. Very early walking. Destroys toys. Head rocking and banging the cot. Continue reading
Posted in Symptoms of hyperactivity
WHY I WENT TO CUBA TO STUDY ADD/ADHD
I had been told several times that ADD and ADHD were “world-wide problems,” however I did not believe it. Thus, I looked for a country which did not experience these. By chance I read an article about Cuba leading the world in organic farming and it mentioned there were no food-chains there. Wow! That made me curious regarding children’s behavior there, so I wrote several letters to the Cuban authorities, but did not received a reply. Continue reading
Additives in Food Are the Primary Cause of ADHD
By Betty Hooper
For over 25 years I have collected a massive amount of evidence relating to the treatment of children diagnosed with ADHD, (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). The label ADHD, which is a fancy term for hyperactivity, was assigned by the American Psychiatric Association in the 1980’s, who following a show of hands, created this new “disease,” which they stated was treatable, but not curable and attributable to brain dysfunction. Continue reading
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