12 Effective Ways to Help Your ADD/ADHD Child: Drug-Free Alternatives for Attention-Deficit Disorders

by Laura J. Stevens

In 12 Ways to Effectively Help Your ADD/ADHD Child, you'll discover that helping a child with ADD/ADHD is like solving a jigsaw puzzle. You have to identify the various biochemical and nutritional pieces and fit them together into a completed puzzle of a happy, healthy child. Improve diet, track down hidden food allergies, and identify and avoid inhalant allergens and chemical sensitivities. Included are menu suggestions, shopping tips, and 30 recipes to help parents deal with diet changes, such as avoiding artificial colors, milk, wheat, sugar, and chocolate. 12 Ways to Effectively Help Your ADD/ADHD Child discusses the latest research reports from prestigious medical journals about ADD/ ADHD, deficiencies, and lead poisoning.

Genres: Adhd, Nonfiction

288 pages, Paperback

First published September 4, 2000

Reviews

[Michell Salgado · Rating 2 out of 5]

Para nada fue lo que esperaba. Básicamente habla de la alimentación en todo el libro, aunque no podría decir que no aprendi nada, realmente no aprendí nada de lo que yo quería aprender.

[Valentina · Rating 1 out of 5]

Should be renamed '12 ways to change your add/adhd kid's diet"

[Heather · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not what I thought. A chapter on proper diet and the Food Pyramid, a chapter on reducing sugar in a child's diet (kids' cereals advertised during cartoon shows have lots of sugar? Who knew?), not very helpful. If adjusting those aspects eliminates your child's ADD/ADHD symptoms, perhaps they didn't have the condition in the first place.
If pinpointing and eliminating allergens in your child's diet or environment eliminates your child's ADD/ADHD symptoms, perhaps they didn't have the condition at all but had symptoms mimicking ADD/ADHD.

Relieved I borrowed it from the library.

[Miss Kelly]

This is a nonfiction book that talks drug-free alternatives for attention-deficit disorders.
The book not only talks briefly what ADD and ADHD are but it actually gives several ideas to help alleviate the symptoms through diet, exercise, therapy and vitamins. The back of the book includes recipes and meal plans to help incorporate some of these ideas too. I wouldn't mind owning this book.

[Amanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good read and gave me lots to think about. Though I'd like to read something along the same lines that is not 12 years since publication. I'm wondering how much has changed and become known since then.

[Katherine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Positive helpful book. Many of the techniques were genuinely successful.

[Lucretia Bailey · Rating 5 out of 5]

So far, the recipes also seem to be good.