there has been no scientific proof that this works for ADHD. Not that diet can't influence your child in other ways. If your child has an allergy to a particular food, then a special diet may be helpful. But it does not affect ADHD.

Elaine

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I tried this for my eldest child way back in about '83. Didn't do anything. There are certain foods that I notice make some children more active, apples for instance (this is one of the forbidden foods on the Feingold diet), as they create more energy (try it sometime with a glass of milk in the afternoon--a great pick-me-up for the unADHD person). The idea of food can be the 'cause', but what I found is if that was the issue then it would have turned around when my child began to actually eat all kinds of food and he is still the same unfocused, sometimes scrambled, angry and sometimes an unhappy person due to his AD(H)D (without the hyperactivity).

To give an example: When my 15-yr-old was about 1.5 yrs. old, my older son and I were eating baked apples and CJ wanted some. We gave him a taste and then he was running from one to the other going bonkers to get more. He loved it. I t was great he liked it but he was like the tazmanian devil on amphetamines. Because I was already running to keep up with him I forbid him apples in any way, manner or form.

Read the book and maybe some of the things you will see have an effect on your child/adult/self, but I personally don't rely on the diet as the only solution. As a parent, I personally feel that generally, if there is an issue strictly with diet, then I personally don't think that the child is ADD/ADHD anyway. It was an actual food issue in the first place. It's an easy way for a lot of Dr.s to push the issue aside, or that they actually don't know how to treat ADD/ADHD. Not putting Dr.s down, just saying there are some that are more trained and understand the symptoms and others who don't want to deal with it for their own reasons.

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