Quiz Questions for Vitamin B Complex Regarding , ADHD, Learning Disabilities and Behavioral Disorders

The following quiz questions for vitamin B complex, ADHD,
Learning Disabilities and Behavioral Disorders will seek to
determine if there is significant evidence supporting the
belief that vitamin B complex and other orthomolecular
strategies are successful treatments for these children's
disorders.

Pellagra is an ultimately fatal disease caused by niacin
deficiency, usually associated with a corn diet. It was
characterized by dementia, diarrhea, dermatitis and death.
Heavy coffee use may mask subclinical pellagra. This brief
description of pellagra aids in understanding some of the
following quiz questions for vitamin B complex.


Quiz Questions for Vitamin B Complex....


  1. In 1938, "The American Journal of Medicine," described
    subclinical pellagra in children (pellagra not relieved by
    niacin added to foods), as consisting of which of the
    following:

    a) Hyperactivity
    b) Inappropriate social behavior
    c) Perceptual difficulties
    d) Problems in school
    e) Any one or more of the above

  2. Subclinical pellagra can is caused today by a diet of:

    a) white rice
    b) white flour
    c) refined sugar
    d) any or all of the above

  3. Recalling that a vitamin B-3 (niacin) deficiency causes
    difficulty in processing sugars (carbohydrates) into energy,
    which of the following are true:

    a) Hypoglycemia can result from a B-3 deficiency
    b) Increased depression can result from a B-3 deficiency
    c) Increased criminal behavior results from a B-3 deficiency
    d) Subclinical pellagra is associated with hypoglycemia
    e) All of the above

  4. In a California study, 200 of 400 prisoners were put on
    a multiple vitamin supplement. After 15 weeks, the decrease
    in prison violations, due to the prevention of subclinical pellagra and other disorders of malnutrition, was:

    a) 8%
    b) 38%
    c) 28%
    d) 18%

  5. Today subclinical pellagra children are labeled which
    of the following:

    a) Any one of the below
    b) ADD
    c) Hyperactive
    d) Dyslexic
    e) Emotionally disturbed
    f) Minimally brain damaged
    g) Criminals

  6. One of the first indications of pellagra is:

    a) Dyslexia
    b) Depression and perceptual difficulties
    c) Hyperactivity
    d) Hypoactivity

  7. Over the past 75 years clinicians and researches have
    found that food allergies can produce almost any psychiatric
    condition, including autism, schizophrenia, mood and
    behavioral disorders.

    a) True
    b) False

  8. Clinical evidence is a way of establishing the success
    of a given treatment. Dr. Abram Hoffer treated 1500
    Canadian children with learning disabilities and
    behavioral disorders, including ADHD. Which of the
    following is true:

    a) His success rate was over 80%.
    b) He often treated the most difficult last resort cases.
    c) He so successfully treated a doctor's family that the
    doctor, once an orthomolecular skeptic, became a successful
    orthomolecular physician.
    d) Since the medical establishment blamed his successful
    treatment on the placebo affect of his personality, he
    successfully initiated treatment over the telephone a month
    prior to seeing the patient at his practice.
    e) All of the above

  9. According to Dr. Hoffer, although niacin was accepted as
    a treatment for cholesterol, it was rejected:

    a) Because it couldn't be patented
    b) Because you neither promote nor publicize what can't be
    patented
    c) Because other cholesterol lowering drugs cost $150/month
    while niacin only cost $10/month
    d) All of the above

  10. Perusing the list of B vitamins and their affects at questions
    for vitamin B complex     give several clues B vitamins might possibly
    influence the brain and behavior positively. These clues are:

    a) Nerves & Alzheimer's Disease
    b) Depression & energy
    c) Insomnia, autism, & thinking
    d) Nervous system stabilization & Schizophrenia
    e) All of the above

  11. According to Dr. Hoffer, niacin therapy has proven
    itself effective in the treatment of many diseases (heart,
    arthritis, cancer, schizophrenia, aging, dementia, etc.).
    One explanation for its manifold affects is:

    a) Its involvement in 50 different chemical reactions in the
    body
    b) Its function in releasing energy from the foods we eat
    c) Its function to stabilize both the nervous system and
    cardiovascular system
    d) a & b
    e) a, b, & c

  12. Dr. Hoffer found that when treatment was unsuccessful,
    some common reasons were which of the following:

    a) Failure to control for the consumption of sugar
    b) Failure to control for the consumption of unprocessed foods
    c) Failure to control for food additives and allergies
    d) Administering too low of a vitamin dose
    e) Failure to control for behavior
    f) a, b, c, & d
    g) a, b, & c
    h) a, b, c, d & e

  13. The most common reason for unsuccessful treatment was:

    a) Failure to control for food additives and allergies
    b) Administering too low of a vitamin dose
    c) Failure to control for sugar consumption
    d) Failure to control for the consumption of unprocessed
    foods

  14. Side effects or characteristics of niacin therapy are
    the following:

    a) Temporary flushing
    b) Jaundice, rarely, in high dosages
    c) Sustained release preparations can be dangerous
    d) All of the above

  15. In cases of children with ADHD, what percentage of
    children were found to be sensitive to food additives?

    a)40-50%
    b)30-40%
    c)20-30%
    d)10-20%

  16. Genetic causes of learning disabilities and behavioral
    disorders are evidenced by which of the following:

    a) The not uncommon occurrence of a parent with a similar
    disorder
    b) The high correlation of identical twins born with the
    same disorder
    c) a & b
    d) None of the above

  17. The above genetic evidence fails to take into account
    which of the following:

    a) The fact that over 200 chemicals toxic to the brain have
    been found in the blood supply of unborn babies
    b) That what appears to be genetic causes of birth defects
    may be due to the babies sharing similar environments
    within the mother's womb
    c) Both a & b
    d) Neither a & b

  18. Dr. Roger Williams, one of the greatest researchers of
    his time, claimed this, while Dr. Abram Hoffer, claimed
    this. Which statement below is true:

    a) Rogers said alcoholism was caused by malnutrition of the
    brain, while Hoffer said alcoholism could often be cured by
    niacin
    b) Rogers said alcoholism is due to a weak personality, while
    Hoffer said it was due to a genetically weak brain
    c) Rogers said that no one who follows a nutritionally good
    diet ever develops alcoholism
    d) All of the above are true
    e) a & c are true

  19. Three hundred years ago, Sir Thomas Sydenham, discovered
    a treatment that reduced small pox deaths from 50% to 1-2%.
    The result was:

    a) He was challenged to a duel
    b) The medical establishment wanted to drive him out.
    c) Medically, things are not much different today
    d) All of the above

  20. In the final analysis progressive medical changes occur
    because:

    a) The American public takes the lead
    b) The pharmaceutical companies take the lead
    c) Researchers take the lead
    d) Clinicians take the lead
    e) All of the above


This completes the quiz questions for vitamin B complex.
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B complex.


Quiz Questions for Vitamin B Complex


  1. a) http://www.lightparty.com/Health/HoffersABC.html

  2. d) http://drlwilson.com/Articles/WHY%20KIDS%20KILL.htm

  3. e) http://www.hbci.com/~wenonah/new/basics.htm

  4. b) http://drlwilson.com/Articles/WHY%20KIDS%20KILL.htm

  5. a) http://www.lightparty.com/Health/HoffersABC.html
    http://www.hbci.com/~wenonah/new/mcsm.htm

  6. b) http://www.lightparty.com/Health/HoffersABC.html
    http://www.doctoryourself.com/review.html

  7. T http://www.lightparty.com/Health/HoffersABC.html

  8. e) "Children's Attention & Behavior Disorders," Hoffer,
    Abram

  9. d) http://members.aol.com/pbchowka/hoffer.html

  10. e) Link to questions for vitamin B complex in question 7.

  11. e) Link to questions for vitamin B Complex in question 7.

  12. f) "Children's Attention & Behavior Disorders," Hoffer,
    Abram

  13. b) "Children's Attention & Behavior Disorders," Hoffer,
    Abram

  14. d) http://doctoryourself.com/hoffer_niacin.html

  15. a) For questions for vitamin B complex involving food
    additives, link to nutrition food and behavior.

  16. c) http://www.answers.com/topic/nature-nurture-controversy?
    cat=technology

  17. c) Link to the importance of vitamins towards-health.

  18. e) http://www.hbci.com/~wenonah/new/basics.htm
    http://www.the101program.com/

  19. d) http://members.aol.com/pbchowka/hoffer.html

  20. a) http://members.aol.com/pbchowka/hoffer.html


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