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How can sugar and caffeine affect a child with ADHD?
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Joan Breakey
Dietitian
Joan is an Accredited Practising Dietitian who has specialised in diet investigation of suspected food chemical intolerance. Tolerating Troublesome Foods is her latest book. Joan … View Profile
Of 100% of children who react to additive colours and flavours, fortunately
only 2% react to cane sugar. Usually if colours flavours, and
preservatives are excluded homemade food with sugar can be
tolerated. It's important that foods with sugar be seen as a
useful source of energy in hyperactive children but of course
this should be in addition to essential foods, not instead of
them. We use diet to enable a child to be his real self. It's
not a punishment diet so we don't want it as a negative. Soft
drinks that contain caffeine usually also contain colours,
flavours and preservatives so they are suspect. A small amount
of plain coffee in an older child is likely to be tolerated. At one point the use of caffeine was thought to help those with ADHD.Report this post
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