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154 Philosophical Foundations of Health Education

TABLE 16.1

Effects of Treatment on Children’s Behavior

Treatment Option Percentage Improved Percentage Worsened

Removing milk 32.0 1.0

Removing wheat 50.0 2.0

Removing sugar 51.0 3.0

Psychotherapy 9.0 1.0

Patterning 38.0 3.0

Exercise 44.0 7.0

Day School 6.0 3.0

Residential School 31.0 4.0

Operant Conditioning 20.0 5.0

All drugs combined 1.6 1.0

Mellaril (best drug) 12.0 5.0

Vitamins 45.0 1.5

Source: Walt Stoll, Saving yourself from the disease-care crisis (Panama City, FL: Sunrise Health Coach,

1996); reprinted from Bernard Rimland (1977, June), Comparative effects of treatment on child’s behavior

(Drugs, therapies, schooling, and several non-treatment events), Publication 34, Institute for

Child Behavior Research (San Diego, CA).

Gerald Jonas, in his book Visceral Learning: Toward a Science of Self - Control

(1972), discusses human behavior and individual control in this way: “ Our personal

experience, supported by a cultural heritage of several millennia, assures us that somewhere

inside the person seen by others there is an invisible core of being — a purely

private self that observes, if it cannot always control, our public actions and is ultimately

free of all controls imposed on the organism from outside. Whether it makes

any sense or not, that is what it feels like to be conscious, and any definition of ‘ conscious

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