The best documented resource I’ve found about food additives and ADHD is a paperback book called the How To Cure Hyperactivity book (1981) by C. Thomas Wild with Anita Uhl Brothers, M.D. It reports an extreme chemical sensitivity to the FD&C Yellow Food Color No. 5 (tartrazine) at the surprising level of only 1/10 of 1 mg. That’s the very lowest reported sensitivity that I can find which is well-documented.
The book also addresses such other food additives such as the artificial sweetener, sodium saccharin, and the world’s most common mild stimulant, weak caffeine.
C. Thomas Wild says that caffeine works for him better than Ritalin.
Who else responds positively to coffee – caffeine?
http://www.rsna.org/rsna/media/pr2005/Coffee.cfm
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/neurotoxicity/neurotoxicity.htm
Best is to avoid sugur, flour, and most starches.
I have ADHD and get no effect from caffeine… absolutely nothing. I could eat a lb of chocolate, and drink a 6-pack of Jolt, and feel nothing. Adderall worked for me… for the most part.
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Best is to avoid sugur, flour, and most starches.
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