Home Spa Lady

It’s a diagnosis that is so widespread and not just with
children!  And we wonder why it is so rampant today.  Those of us
who know how foods affect our whole life, including our thinking
processes and behavior, find it easy to look at diet as a
potential remedy to this overgrown problem.

In the best-selling book by Rachel Bell and Dr. Howard Peiper,
The A.D.D. and A.D.H.D.Diet offers a look at contributing factors
and natural treatments for symptoms of these diagnosis’.

Here are a list of some of the potential causes for ADD/ADHD:

        a.  poor nutrition
        b.  environmental contaminants
        c.  allergies to food and environment that affect the
        nervous system
        d.  increased and repeated use of antibiotics
        e.  spinal column misalignments and craniosacral system
        obstructions
        f.  electromagnetic stress from TV and technology

Since this book focuses on diet it encourages the reader to do a
few things to see what foods might be causing the problem such as

           -fast and then eat foods separately to notice effects
           -use a rotation diet
           -get tested for allergies
           -read about what other people did
           -practice proper food combining
           -see a doctor who specializes in natural care for
           ADD/ADHD

Dr. Benjamin Feingold, a pioneer who popularized a special diet
for kids with hyperactivity which was originally presented in
‘Why Your Child is Hyperactive’, says that the child’s diet
should prohibit synthetic or artificial food coloring, flavors,
and preservatives.  It should also prohibit any food containing
natural salicylates, such as

 almonds, apples (cider & cider vinegar), apricots, all
 berries, cherries, cloves, coffee, cucumbers, pickles,
 currants, grapes, raisins, wine & wine vinegar,
 nectarines, oil of wintergreen (methyl salicylate),
 oranges, peaches, peppers, plums, prunes, tangerines,
 tea, tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplant

When I first encountered this information, I noticed that much of
what is listed in this book    sounds like the Candida Diet. I
believe the eco-terrain in the gut has so much to do with
anyone’s thinking and behavioral processes.  Here is another
reason to use essential oils - even on the bottom of the feet -
so they can help keep the ecology balanced (they do for us what
they do for themselves - keep the microbial environment in a
state of balance - more to come on that in upcoming issues).

I bought this book at Whole Foods Market, but I am sure you can
get it online at www.amazon.com.