For those who do not know, NAMI means National Alliance for the Mentally
Ill and can be found at http://www/nami.org/
On Attention Deficit Hyperactivity:
"Is ADHA associated with other neurological, biological, and behavioral
disorders?
Yes.  ADHD is closely associated with:
1.  At least 25 percent of children with ADHD suffer from some type of
communication/learning disability.
2.  Approximately 40 percent of children with ADHAD exhibit signs of
Conduct Disorder (starting fights, lying, stealingO or Oppositional
Defiant Disorder (disobedience, defiance, and rule breaking.)
[This is the same information given in the article I have on file from
chemical dependency in an adolescent journal for counselors.)
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Biochemical studies have documented that children with ADHD have lower
levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine.
Laboratory animal models relevant to ADHD reveal deficiencies in a
number of neurotransmitters, including dopamine.
Successful medications for ADHAD affect the levles of several
neurotransmitters in the brain."
So, now explain to me why there is no mention at all of remedial diet in
this article or why children in families where we know that a problem
exists before birth (alcoholism and other addictions) in lowered amounts
of the neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin, among others, are going
to benefit from anything that might possibly lower these?
THe article also states that brain metabolism is lower in patients with
ADHD than in normal controls.
How about that?  Something to do with sugar carbohydrate metabolism or
glucose production and use by the brain or what?
All they say is that there is a relationship between dietary factors and
ADHD and that diet doesn't cause it.
Diet doesn't cause diabeties either but it is damnably important to all
who have that disease.
I will look further into the net and mention anything else that looks
promising.
In the meantime, it might be useful for parents of ADHD children to find
medical journals and read the latest information for themselves.
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