The Sugar Wars: How Food Impacts ADHD Symptoms
Simple changes in nutrition — like cutting back on sugary snacks — could bring out the sweeter side in your child. It may even help her control challenging ADHD symptoms like impulsivity and inattention.
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100% fruit juice?! These are loaded with “natural” sugar, i.e. fructose, which is no better for you than any other type of sugar (I noticed that you omitted fructose from your list of other names for sugar). Fruit juice is as sugary as full sugar soda, yet marketed as somehow “healthy”.
I have had terrible reactions to artificial sweeteners and well as other synthetically processed sugary substances. Sucralose and high fructose corn syrup are practically poison in my system.
What about those of us that can see an actual reaction in our child from food products like red dye #40 and corn syrup? I don’t think those things should be so easily dismissed, and removing those products, along with similar ingredients, only makes for an overall healthier diet. Rather than dismissing this as “crap” as you called it, it makes more sense to pay attention to what triggers our children on an individual level, while striving to make them as healthy as possible. Acting as if the food we put into our bodies has no effect on behavior or energy levels is reckless for our children, and just plain ridiculous no matter how you look at it. Hopefully parents are smart enough to really look into ingredients, how they effect our bodies, and evaluate their child’s individual reaction.
The diet kooks have been coming out of the woodwork ever since Fiengold or goldstein or whatever his name is espoused diet as the big cause in the 70s and his sugar and red and yellow dyes. Those two studies you quote out of many many recent studies may be the only ones that had those findings.
Even the so called Halloween candy effect on Normies has been found to be a crock by actual classroom studies. RECENTLY.
I put my child through hell food wise based on this crap . Hopefully parents today are a lot smarter than accepting advice from a couple of cherry picked studies.
Bad enough that Drug companies get away with only reporting the studies that frame their meds positively, we dont need speculation contrary to the vast majority of peer reviewed research to fill your pages. Of course the flat earth society is still at it as are the Global Warming deniers. Perhaps this stuff belongs on their pages.