Many children and adults who have taken medications, like Ritalin (methylphenidate), for ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) or ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) have drug addiction problems. The side effects of those medications, also include personality changes, confusion, suicidal thoughts, depression, loss of appetite, sleeping problems, stomachache, headache, and other disorders.
To avoid these side effects, you may consider alternative solutions – change diet.
ADD or ADHD is not like heart disease, arthritis, cancer or ulcers that can be physically linked to a certain organ of the body, it is actually just a set of symptoms. Today, ADD or ADHD is often used by doctors as an easy explanation when they could not find why an adult or a child having the health problems.
There could be many factors that cause ADD or ADHD. Changing diet and lifestyle may help improve the symptoms.
For a child or an adult with ADD or ADHD, who feels internal body heat, exhaustive, restless, the following “cooling foods and fruits” may help calm him down:
Mashroom
Oyster
Bean curd
Carrot
Spinach
Celery
Broccoli
Pear
Strawberry
Banana
Grape
Lemon
Watermelon
The So-called “cooling foods and fruits” do not mean the temperature of the foods and fruits is low, but mean that these foods and fruits have the effects to lower body’s temperature, reduce internal heat, and calm nerves.
To reduce body internal heat, spicy food, oily food, alcohol, coffee, and smoking should be avoided.
Chili pepper, ginger, garlic, cinnamon and curry all are hot spicies, thus should be avoided.
Consider pork a healthy alternative to other meats. Because pork generates less internal heat than lamb, beef and chicken.
Of course, if one with ADD or ADHD symptoms, feels weakness and internal cold, then his diet should be different than the above. He should take “warming foods and fruits” to generate more internal heat. The following are some of them:
Lamb
Beef
Chicken
Milk
Coffee
Wine
Ginseng
Ginger
Garlic
Cinnamon
Curry
Chili pepper
