Re: ADD Nutrition Connection

[Anonymous]

The food guide is a great start. No doubt, eating well is key to managing ADD. The brain requires proper fuel to power itself. It can be hard however, to know how to eat well, with the dizzying array of commercials for self proclaimed “healthier” or “scentific” foods, checkout stand quick fix diet recommendations and news reports on nutrition research. News reports tend to cover nutrition studies as if they are the absolute word on the current health knowledge of a food product. Nutrition research changes its view as frequently as the weather changes, so it can be hard to rely on these sources. As the saying goes, moderation is likely best with anything.

Michael Pollan says it well in his book, IN DEFENSE OF FOOD: An eater’s manifesto, “Eat food, not too much and mostly plants”. By food he means whole foods, not modified, synthetically produced or refined ingredients. As much as possible, avoid the packaged, modified food like products that occupy most aisles of grocery stores. Walk the perimeter of the grocery store for produce, dairy, meat and such. Although this is very difficult to do, it raises some awareness of what we are really consuming. I’m doing a poor job of explaining this, for those that are interested, look up Pollan’s book for an alternate view of food an eating.

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