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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/ADH
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).
References:
Bell, Rachel and Dr. Howard Peiper. The A.D.D. and
A.D.H.D. Diet Safe, Goods Publishing (1998)
Dr. Benjamin Feingold, Why Your Child is Hyperactive,
Random House (1985)
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