Back To School – Part 1 – Children’s Nutrition

With your children rested and rejuvenated from the summer holidays and poised and ready to return to school in September, now is the perfect time to make changes to their diet to improve their health and academic performance alike.

Now is the perfect time to make the changes to your children's diet to [...]

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Study finds that special diets may be helpful for children with ADHD

ADHD, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, has been in the limelight again.  A new study, published in the well respected medical journal The Lancet, has found that “A strictly supervised restricted elimination diet is a valuable instrument to assess whether ADHD is induced by food” (1)

The researchers involved in this study, known as the Impact [...]

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Unhealthy ‘Western’ style diet linked to ADHD

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, ADHD, is something that a lot of parents have concerns about.  In past blog posts I have written about the condition and how certain foods/supplements might be helpful to those suffering from the condition.  In particular a lot of my writing has focussed on the long chain omega 3 fatty [...]

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Are there alternatives to stimulant drugs for adults with ADHD?

A piece of research (1) recently published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry has concluded that “The long-term treatment outcome shows that stimulants are effective in adult ADHD and side effects tend to be mild”.  The most common treatment for anyone, children and adults, diagnosed as suffering with ADHD are strong, psychostimulant drugs  (e.g. [...]

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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) may be associated with low folate levels during pregnancy

Folate is in the news again, this vitamin of the B group is one that I have often written about especially with regards pregnancy and the prevention of birth defects, as well as links to premature births and low birth weights.  This time researchers (1) have linked low folate during pregnancy and ADHD in [...]

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Diet, the brain and behaviour in children

Children everywhere are starting to get ready to go back to school after their long summer holidays.  Nutrition and diet can impact the body and health in many ways, the most apparent concerns for parents of school aged children are immune health and brain function/behaviour.

In July I wrote about probiotics and prevention/treatment [...]

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Can essential fatty acids help children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)?

The long summer holidays have ended and children are heading back into their classrooms.  Over the last few years the press have been giving increasing coverage to a condition known as ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder).  Today I would like to write about essential fatty acids, one of the many nutritional aspects associated with the [...]

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