| Relatively unknown just two decades ago | | | | drugs. |
| (although discussion of the disorder has occurred | | | | Diet after weaning |
| in medical circles for over half a century) | | | | The symptoms of ADHD tend to show up during |
| Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder | | | | the preschool years, and they can be aggravated |
| awareness is critical in the lives of those who | | | | by certain type of diets. Many children are |
| make a career out of working with children. | | | | ingesting too much sugar and caffeine in their |
| Teachers, child psychologists, counsellors, and | | | | diets today in the form of "easy" and junk food, |
| others are all given at least some exposure to | | | | and of course these ingredients will cause a |
| the symptoms and solutions of the disorder. | | | | reaction of hyperactivity in children without the |
| The people most affected by ADHD, of course, | | | | disorder. The reaction is far greater in children |
| are the children with the disorder and their | | | | with ADHD. |
| parents. An ADHD diagnosis is the first step | | | | The Feingold Program is a diet which has not been |
| towards the general improvement of many areas | | | | positively proven to alleviate ADHD symptoms by |
| in the lives of someone with this condition, and | | | | science, but has been upheld both by doctors and |
| many people wonder just what role diet plays as | | | | parents who work with ADHD afflicted children. |
| far as ADHD. | | | | This diet essentially takes out any unnatural food |
| Before we get into some specific areas, it is | | | | products in a nutrition regime, including artificial |
| important to note that scientific research has | | | | coloring and sweeteners, flavours, and |
| never positively linked any diet to the direct | | | | preservatives. |
| causes or symptoms of ADHD. Most of the work | | | | ADHD is largely a disorder whose origins are not |
| in this area remains theoretical. | | | | fully known. The nutrition of the ADHD positive |
| Diet of the pregnant mother | | | | child is important, but has not yet proven to be |
| The first area where nutrition may come into play | | | | linked to the actual development of the condition. |
| as far as the development of ADHD is when the | | | | Still, watching the nutrition a child with ADHD |
| fetus is in the womb. The probable links to ADHD | | | | takes in may mean that the symptoms of the |
| development here include the usual suspects such | | | | disorder are not as acute. |
| as caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, and other types of | | | | |