Diet is very important. I remember a program for low-income pregnant women in a black neighborhood in SF where they had a nurse and a dietician to help the girls...all of them unmarried and on welfare...to be good parents.
They did a meal survey. These girls literally lived on potato chips and Coke, with an occasional KFC thrown in. They had this stuff for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
So naturally, their babies were going to be low birthweight and probably have all sorts of malnutrition-caused syndromes. The sad thing is that I really think the girls wanted their babies to be healthy, but the whole concept of diet seemed to be beyond them.
Nobody in their families cooked, they never ate together with family members, and even though they got all sorts of supplemental income directed at nutrition, they had no idea. It was very depressing.
Two of my kids are taking part in a vitamin study right now.
...and make sure they have healthy and regular bathroom habits and not holding it in all day. I’m convinced that’s an overlooked and frequently unknown problem that parents and doctors are missing.
This is interesting. So much bad stuff in our food. I’m wondering what the formula was. Doing a little looking I found Hardy Nutritionals.
I always wanted to do something to help kids with ADHD and ADD but I got distracted and lost interest.
Maybe some sort of mitochondria disorder.
Amazing... food matters
Any details on the “micronutrients and vitamins” they are studying?
Bookmarking for later
It boggles the mind that people are wound so tight about organic pet foodfor their cats and dogs, and they won’t use hummingbird food with red food color init, but when it comes to feeding their kids……..
I cringe whenever I see some kid sucking on a bottle of blue raspberry gatorade, or some such drink. Those poor babies don’t stand a chance.
Many years ago, I found a link to an FDA article about red and yellow food dyes that would make you swear the stuff off forever. I cannot find it now although I will look when I get home.
In the meantime, I found this……
Is there a link between red dye 40 and ADHD?
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/red-dye-40-adhd#symptoms
Perhaps instead of jacking up the vitamin levels, the parents could just cut out all the artificial ingredients.
My son is/was very sensitive to Vanillin. He would literally bounce off the walls from the stuff. I had to use only real vanilla extract when baking.
A friend’s son was very sensitive to Red 40. He would become mean and vicious when he ate it. She could always tell when he got some.
And yet, try telling people that artificial food additives could be affecting their kid’s behavior and you might as well not waste your breath. People simply do not want to hear it.
Stop feeding anything with sugar as well.
I grew up with cereal that was 110% sugar and drank too much Coke.
Ping!