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