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Study: Diet May Help ADHD Kids More Than Drugs
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#22ADHD has a long history of claims of diets supposedly helping kids with the diagnosis. It began with the Feingold diet, went on to the Gluten-free/Casein-free diet, and now apparently exclusion diets. I am rather sceptical.
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#23Full study here: http://www.adhdenvoeding.nl/cms/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/P...
Thanks. The press release information in the NPR report submitted as the link here hardly begins to describe the study design. The link to the study suggests which issues in study design http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html to look at to see just how generalizable these results may be. With the sample size and length of study described here, I'd look for a lot more replication over populations from more countries…
There was indeed criticism when this story broke a few months ago here in The Netherlands about the applicability and breadth of the study, meaning more work would need to be done to be able to apply this for more ADHD kids.
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#24Full study here: http://www.adhdenvoeding.nl/cms/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/P...
Here's a better summary article: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/diet-cha...
Yes, that article draws attention to the important issue that the study was not "blind" and thus subject to influence by observer-awareness effects.
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#25altering your child's diet without a doctor's supervision is inadvisable. WTF? I'm sure this is just a CYA, but the idea that most people need the advice of a medical professional to make dietary decisions is absurd. Sure, be careful about any radical fad diets, but adding or eliminating certain foods is quite safe. People do that all the time due to price fluctuations, availability and changing tastes with no ill ef…
There's also the possibility that there will be parents that severely restrict their child's diet in a way that causes malnutrition too...
[edit] Not saying that it's a good reason to make that statement, but that's what that CYA aspect probably is...
Re: Study: Diet May Help ADHD Kids More Than Drugs
#26ADHD has a long history of claims of diets supposedly helping kids with the diagnosis. It began with the Feingold diet, went on to the Gluten-free/Casein-free diet, and now apparently exclusion diets. I am rather sceptical.
That's what makes this study interesting. Instead of a "hey, maybe this works" regimen, the foods excluded from the diet in this study are individualized according to the patients' measured allergic response.
It would be interesting to look at the data, even with this small sample, to see how different the individual diets ended up being.
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#28After some supplemental reading, the hypothesis of ADD/ADHD symptoms as a reaction to food allergies has been tested before[1], the authors had done a previous experiment published back in 2009, and it appears this experiment was designed to avoid criticisms[2] of past experiments in the field.
[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8257176 [2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17048717
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#29As a pretty strongly affected ADHD person and as the parent of an extremely affected seven year old, my experience is that no, diet alone will not help kids more than drugs. I'm a vegetarian, eat right, work out - all the right things - and, although they help, they are no replacement for some type of methylphenidate (i.e. Ritalin or Concerta). I don't need a study to tell me that "One approach does not work for all people."
Sorry for the rant - I just think it's easy for non-ADHD people to dismiss ADHD. I see hyper kids who get called "ADD" and then people make comments/decisions about truly ADHD kids from these people ("Just don't feed them red dye #10!" (or whatever)).
Re: Study: Diet May Help ADHD Kids More Than Drugs
#30altering your child's diet without a doctor's supervision is inadvisable. WTF? I'm sure this is just a CYA, but the idea that most people need the advice of a medical professional to make dietary decisions is absurd. Sure, be careful about any radical fad diets, but adding or eliminating certain foods is quite safe. People do that all the time due to price fluctuations, availability and changing tastes with no ill ef…
There's also the possibility that there will be parents that severely restrict their child's diet in a way that causes malnutrition too... [edit] Not saying that it's a good reason to make that statement, but that's what that CYA aspect probably is...
This shouldn't be downvoted. It's a real risk. It's easy to over-restrict a child's diet.