Your Diet & ADHD
To many parents, adding a vitamin to a child’s diet may be preferable to adding a stimulant. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), there may be a link between essential fatty acid levels and ADHD symptoms. Adding Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids to a child’s diet has shown promise in spite of some lack of scholarly proof. In many cases, although supplements help, medication is often still required. One such study, The Oxford-Durham study, compared the effects of adding Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids to the diets of children with developmental coordination disorder (one-third of which had ADHD). This study found that the reading capacity of these children was three times what was expected, after adding the supplements to their diets.
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