subject: Adhd And Good Diet [print this page] Research shows that diet affects ADHD symptoms. As an educational adviser, I have been involved with researching nutritional programmes which are common to ADHD behaviours and will turn round behavioural symptoms in a short period of time. During this research, one of my main findings was that the typical average diet for children was comprised of mainly junk food. By definition, I mean food that has been over processed, so that most of the nutritional and health giving value is missing from their daily food intake. Alongside introducing good nutritional supplementation and testing for additives to which the child may have a sensitivity, intolerance or allergy, the main focus was to get families to start thinking differently into the way they eat, and what they eat!
Dietary support for ADHD is most effective when it looks at removing certain food additives to which the child may be sensitive. The range of symptoms may vary, from mild to severe. Be careful choosing vitamins, the quality of them can vary a lot. Take the really cheap sort of vitamins found in the supermarkets. These can do more harm than good, often having additives that can affect behavior in your child. Nutritional products are best purchased from companies who have a reputation for their quality assurance this means each of their products carry a label on the ingredients which reads 'minimum standard assay' which is term that means that every bottle is tested to ensure it contains the right amount of ingredients that do the job. The source of their vitamins should also be food and the food needs to be organic and cold extracted which means the food is not heated to extract the vitamins. This process is essential, to ensure effective nutrition. This production method from the cheaper high street brands which are often synthetically made from chemicals in the laboratory.
A good example is the ubiquitous vitamin C which can help with colds. This can be produced form oranges that are grown in the right conditions, allowed to ripen in the sun and free from pesticides and processed into vitamin tablets shortly after they are picked to preserve the natural goodness. The other choice is to take the chemical vitamin C which is prepared in laboratories by mixing ascorbic acid and sodium ascorbate. You can see why the price of these products varies so much and why taking a programme of the cheaper vitamins will have little effect on your child's condition. The whole process of sourcing your food for the family to eat is also important as much of the natural goodness in food is destroyed through modern food processing techniques sourcing high quality food form local producers is extremely important.
ADHD and Diet are not the whole picture for this condition in children but it does fit a few pieces of the jig saw puzzle into place.
by: Steve Porter
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