Introduction: Fighting ADD ADHD with Food

Mary put down the phone with a sigh.

The call that she had been dreading finally came.

The signs were obvious for a long time. Her son James’ behavior at school was getting ever more erratic and disruptive. It has now reached the point where the school wanted to have an urgent meeting with her and her husband to discuss the problem and possible ways of solving it. 

Mary has a sinking feeling that James has already been labeled and diagnosed with ADHD, and that he will be prescribed powerful medication. 

She stared at the phone, feeling trapped. She knew that something had to be done, but she so wished that a way could be found where it was not necessary to drug little James into submission.

Unfortunately Mary’s story is depressingly familiar.

Thousands of parents are facing situations just like hers every day as more and more kids are being told that they need extremely powerful drugs to keep their behavior under control.

This is a desperate, sad state of affairs that cannot be allowed to continue. Fortunately, it does not have to!

Scientists have been hard at work over the past few decades in order to find different ways of understanding and treating ADD ADHD.

One thing that is becoming increasingly clear from their research is that nutrition is one of the key factors in combating both its causes and symptoms.  

A key aspect of using nutrition as a weapon in the fight against ADHD is the design of a diet that gives the brain all that it needs for optimum performance.  As our understanding of nutrition and ADHD develops, a consensus is developing that such a diet should have certain key characteristics.

The purpose of this book is to point these out to you and, in the process, help you design an anti-ADHD diet.

This book will help you to understand the vital role that nutrition can play in managing the symptoms of ADHD.

Along the way you will learn:

• How our current eating habits are actively harming us.
• How the brain is ‘powered up’ and how you can help it to do its job by eating right.
• How the different food groups affect brain function.
• How a Low GI diet can help you to step away from the ‘blood sugar rollercoaster’ that is so often associated with ADD ADHD. 

Far too many people like Mary simply ‘do as they are told’ and give their consent for their kids to go down the potentially disastrous medication route.

This book will show you how you take a radically different, and vastly superior, path. 

I am delighted that you decided to embark on this journey with me and I trust that what you learn here will have a significant positive impact on your life!