ADHD Diets?

Everywhere I look I read about ADHD diets and their benefits.  So, let's take a closer look at this by researching.  My first stop was here: http://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/guide/adhd-diets

This caught my eye from WebMd "Ideally, an ADHD diet would help the brain work better and lessen symptoms of the disorder, such as restlessness or lack of focus".

These are the suggestions made: 

• Eat a high-protein diet, including beans, cheese, eggs, meat, and nuts. Add protein foods in the morning and for after-school snacks, to improve concentration and possibly increase the time ADHD medications work.
• Eat fewer simple carbohydrates, such as candy, corn syrup, honey, sugar, products made from white flour, white rice, and potatoes without the skins.
• Eat more complex carbohydrates, such as vegetables and some fruits (including oranges, tangerines, pears, grapefruit, apples, and kiwi). Eating complex carbs at night may aid sleep.
• Eat more omega-3 fatty acids, such as those found in tuna, salmon, other cold-water white fish, walnuts, Brazil nuts, and olive and canola oil. Omega-3 fatty acids are also available in supplement form.

Remove the following:

• Artificial colors, especially red and yellow
• Food additives such as aspartame, MSG (monosodium glutamate), and nitrites; some studies have linked hyperactivity to the intake of the preservative sodium benzoate.
• Sugar
• Caffeine

Starting Monday I'm going to test this theory with Collin.  He's been very well behaved lately but I still would love for home time to be improved especially the bedtime routine.

Melatonin helps greatly as he has difficulty shutting down at night so we start very early at 7pm he gets ready for bed.  Every other night is a bath night, afterwards he takes the melatonin by 8pm he is asleep.  However, if everything isn't perfect for him from his pillow to blankets he will complain and delay bedtime.  So we are really working on this area.

Stay tuned for the diet changes and updates on how it helps ADHD.