Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder Helped with Diet
There have been reports for decades that additives can cause hyperactivity in kids. But it is information parents with kids diagnosed for Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder have come to take quite seriously.
A friend whose son was diagnosed with ADHD has been researching private teen boarding schools and was surprised to find several that many have menus available for ADHD kids who do not use medication. Besides eliminating sugars and fats, they offer foods without additives.
Relevant Tags:adhd kids, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, food additives, hyperactive behavior, hyperactive kids, teen boarding schools“Research…found that artificial food additives can trigger hyperactive behavior in children.
The study tested a range of E-numbers and a common preservative found in foods popular with kids - soft drinks, sweets and ice cream - on a group of three-year-olds and another group of children aged eight and nine.
Those who consumed a cocktail of these artificial nasties became loud, boisterous and were unable to concentrate on one toy or task.
The additives even affected kids with no history of hyperactivity or attention deficit disorder.
The Foods Standards Agency now recommends that parents with hyperactive kids should cut the additives used in the study out of their diet. But it stopped short of proposing a complete ban, which has enraged those who believe additives may explain the explosion of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
Dr Sue Baic says: “The study supports what we dietitians have known for a long time - that feeding children on diets largely consisting of processed foods, which may also be high in fat, salt or sugar, is not best for health.”
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