Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder Treated via Nutrition
As parents well know, there are two camps on opposite sides of the best way to help a teen diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder - those who advocate for treatment via medication and those who reject medication totally.
A good friend said she and her husband fought more over their diagnosed teen’s treatment than anything else in their marriage. He was a medication advocate but Carla came from a family of drug addicts and greatly feared that introducing “pills as solution” might set their son up for teen age drug abuse down the road.
After a great deal of research they reached a compromise. Always the health nut, Carla would go the natural route during the course of the summer, combining nutrition with materials she had gathered that teach teens at risk how to work with ADHD, maximizing it’s benefits and managing it’s deficits. The results showed appreciable improvement and after a few rough patches their son is doing extremely well.
Her son wasn’t pleased with many of her dietary choices, but it turns out that her instincts were right. One ingredient that she nagged me start using in my own diet was fish oil, and I’m afraid I’ll have to email her the article excerpted below, even though I’m definitely going to hear, “I told you so.”
Relevant Tags:attention deficit hyperactive disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder adhd, behavioral changes, dietary choices, fish oil, medication, omega 3 fatty acids“Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can benefit from daily fish oil supplements, research [..]
“This is an important study as it indicates when adequate levels of fish oil are added to the diet, significant behavioral changes can occur,” says study author Dr Barry Sears.
He adds that the growing epidemic of ADHD may be down to children’s diets being deficient in omega-3 fatty acids.”
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