How Many Helped? How much help?
There’s nothing wrong with a good healthy diet. I’m skeptical that it makes much difference for very many people with ADD ADHD.
Research shows that the food dyes do make a small difference for a small number of people and special diets do not. However, I’m sure the special diet has helped some people somewhere. The studies of course are talking about on average and there are always outliers. And if you’re the one, its 100%.
Follow the links below.
doug
Good Links :
clik dr Kinsella on foods and medicines
Dr. McNeal makes some sense here – some
Another ADD ADHD Denier
There are still those denying the existence of ADD ADHD. You’d think that would have faded into the distant past by now.
This kind of nonsense doesn’t help. Is he just trying to get publicity? Is he really unaware of the research? And he has good credentials?????
Sometimes it drives me up the wall. Or beyond.
Diet plays no part in the cause or treatment of ADHD other than a traditional “good healthy” diet. If ADHD is a proven inherited right brain dominance and/or a left brain immaturity, how can food make one side of the human brain work better and the other not. Medically speaking if the left brain is not damaged or lacking in talent, a stimulant will make the left brain work better giving a better balance, provided the dose is optimal. The right side will not be boosted as it is already working at optimal level. QED.
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Dr. levin-
I agree. There’s a lot of confusion about terms, like “cause” or “treatment”. If an improved diet makes you feel better and improves your ADD HD symptoms, does that make it a “treatment”?
Could you post some more information about their right/left brain issue? It’s a new concept for me.
Thank you for commenting.
Doug
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Go to in the UK. They have published many of my articles on ADHD.
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Go to not UK
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adders.org is a website to look at not UK.
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dr levin- i looked at the UK site but didn’t find the information about right/left brain? Of course, I’m not very good at looking for things.
Thanks
Doug
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<adders.org< is a website in the UK. They have published many of the articles I have published.
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Dr. Levin –
I found it! Give me credit for persistence anyway.
you do have impressive credentials.
you discuss the right/left brain imbalance, which is a new concept to me. I wonder what you make of the other concepts about the basal ganglia, cerebellum, and prefrontal cortex? Do these two different models correlate with each other?
I agree with the important points you made in the post – about what doesn’t cause ADD ADHD, etc. Probably that in itself does not qualify me as an expert , though. My main claim to expertise is the many years I spent living with ADD ADHD, and learning ways to cope with it.
Thank you for commenting and for the reference. I hope you will contribute further.
I don’t think there’s a way to put a link in this comment section, but I’ll give the address here and post the link in another post.
http://www.adders.org/drbilly16-adhd-confusion-and-misconception.htm
Doug
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Hi Doug. Did you mean “scoop” or are you being ironic about the validity of the mentioned subjects? 😮
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Ram-
could it be both?
thanks for asking
doug
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Ok, an intended joke, thanks! 😉
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