| According to a recent pilot study published by the | | | | report, it has been shown in previous studies that |
| Nutrition Journal on their website, there is now | | | | ADHD children often have high levels of certain fatty |
| significant evidence that children who are affected by | | | | acids in the blood. |
| ADHD enjoy great benefits from daily supplementation | | | | The Nutrition Journal report showed that reducing |
| of high levels of purified fish oil. | | | | these levels of fatty acids in the ADHD children's blood |
| This finding merely confirms that diet can play a | | | | generated significant improvements in their behavior, |
| significant role in helping the young ADHD (and ADD) | | | | when compared to the 'control group' (non-ADHD) |
| sufferer, and that, conversely, someone who has a | | | | children. |
| poor diet will suffer what might be termed attention | | | | The problem, of course, is that the family of a child |
| deficit diet disorder. | | | | whose ADHD condition is being exacerbated or |
| Attention deficit diet disorder is a phrase that is now | | | | amplified by a poor diet may not be able to afford to |
| applied to those children whose diet is not helping to | | | | spend money on expensive diet supplements or |
| alleviate their ADHD or ADD and the behavioral | | | | indeed, on special diets. |
| patterns that are usually associated with such | | | | The fact may well be that the reason that the child |
| conditions. | | | | has an attention deficit diet disorder in the first place, |
| In other words, and in plain English, attention deficit diet | | | | that is, a poor diet, is a direct result of a lack of money |
| disorder is as much about the child's diet being | | | | in the family household. |
| disordered as it is about their medical condition being a | | | | Then there will be the question of education, or rather, |
| 'disorder'. | | | | the re-education of the family of such an ADHD |
| If such children are consuming a diet that is not helping | | | | affected child. |
| them to handle and deal with their ADHD, then they | | | | They will have to be shown and then comprehensively |
| can be said to be suffering both ADHD and attention | | | | convinced that only a change of their child's eating |
| deficit diet disorder. | | | | patterns can rid the child of attention deficit diet |
| And, of course, the answer to the problem of attention | | | | disorder. |
| deficit diet disorder is remarkably simple, at least in | | | | That may be no easy task to achieve, unfortunately. |
| theory. | | | | So, attention deficit diet disorder does exist and it can |
| Adjust the child's diet to include those nutrients that are | | | | be dealt with. Furthermore, it is not necessarily difficult |
| known to improve their behavior and that is the | | | | to deal with either. |
| problem dealt with. | | | | Make some (perhaps fairly) significant change in the |
| In practice, however, there are several difficulties with | | | | ASHD child's diet and, hey presto, their attention deficit |
| this simplistic approach to the child's attention deficit | | | | diet disorder begins to subside. |
| diet disorder. | | | | Answering the core question of whether people can |
| For example, referring back to the Nutrition Journal | | | | and will do this, however, is another matter entirely! |