ADHD and Autism and Many Other Disorders - Could This Be the Solution..??

I do believe the foods we eat can directly impact our health. Sugar is one of the worst that I have seen to aggravate ADHD.. A doctor told a friend that his autistic daughter would be cured if they put her on a special diet and the parents didn't believe him.. she really isn't autistic.. she was damaged by the DPT shot and it caused her to not be able to walk, talk, feed herself or anything... one doc said she had autism and another doc said she had something else.. but anyway she is 21 and still in diapers and still very small.. she is about the size of a 10 year old. I wonder if she could have been cured if she had the special diet. Her diet consists of liquefied oatmeal with veggies and fruits blended in and she drinks it out of a sippy cup. She isn't even able to be fed with a spoon because she will fight it.

I think some could iwth all they put in food now! DIdnt used to be this way

I read Mercola regularly and agree with some of his assertions. Personally I like to eat grains and do not have a problem with them, but an optometrist friend once told me that some people cannot wear contact lenses if they eat wheat. I do also have some friends who avoid gluten for health reasons. Me, I eat just about anything. I do think, though, that diet has a lot to do with mental health as well as physical well-being.

Interesting thought, makes you realize what the big jump in population is all about lately. We ate wheat for centuries, even the Bible says that most of our food should come from grains, fruits and vegetables. I have always felt that what we eat effects our health in a diverse amount of ways. You are what you eat, or what you eat determines how you feel, if you eat too much of one thing, you get sick, if you don't eat enough you get sick...balance and moderation, balance and moderation. Sincerely and With Appreciation.

Hello buenavida, its nice to meet you. I really agree with you. Avoiding gluten could help children as well as people with adhd etc. Avoiding ceratin type of food is a type of self help technique with no side effects, It is better than medicines with side effects, I also read an article by Doctor. Jane Maati Smith about healing music that can help children and people with adhd. Here is the link http://sound-add-adhd-treatment.com/cd.html Doctor. Jane Maati Smith also believes that changes in diet and herbal and natural remedies can help people with adhd. http://sound-add-adhd-treatment.com/remedies.html I hope this helps.

I read many discussions about adhd but still not understand what is this? Is this any disease? Which type of disease.

researchers are finding so many new things about food, it is a very hot research area these days. You never know. We know that certain foods lifts depression, maybe others can cause it.

I'm afraid it's not as simple as that. Mental disorders are brought about by a dozen different factors, with each disorder having a different set of contributing elements. In this case, what this article you linked to only suggests is that, in a differential diagnosis of ADHD, there might be indicators that *some* (and not all, mind you) ADHD-related diagnoses is related with celiac disease. To put this simply, people who have celiac disease *may* have ADHD, but not all people with ADHD have celiac disease. Also, it's too big a leap to connect celiac disease with every mental disorder out there because as I've pointed out earlier, each mental disorder is caused by varying factors. Even the Axis system of the DSM-IV TR (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) views mental disorders across *five* dimensions, which means the causes of mental disorders cannot be really traced simply to one particular ingredient. I'm sorry to say this but to make a long story short: don't believe everything you read.