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The popularity of diet to correct behavioral problems began with the Feingold Diet. This diet eliminated many food products, including food additives. According to proponents of this approach, this diet help improve concentration, impulsiveness and other ADHD symptoms. In 1982 the Nationa...
No sugar is helping my 7 year old daughter. She is not uncontrolable any longer. She even feels the difference and has a lot more good days at school. Has it fixed the whole problem, NO. But it has made living with her much less stressful. She will start meds this month to help her lack of focus on school work but I will definately keep her off sugar. I am not the only one to notice a big change in her. It is so worth a try.
Sorry to tell you this but ANYTHING you think works will work! It is most probably your attitude change that your daughter senses and is reacting to. All experiments have shown that sugar is innocent in this situation BUT experiments with information and teachers/parents have definitely shown that if teachers and parents are told to expect an improvement they relax and treat the child differently, which the child then reacts to. So maybe working on relaxing your control over your child might help even more!
Sugar is a problem for some kids, but it usually is not the sugar but the artificial colors/dyes/preservatives in the product that trigger the symptoms of ADHD. Watch the video at www.ADHDdiet.org