The power of food on our bodies should not be a shock.  What we eat becomes our cells, our bodies.  Why wouldn't our food have an effect on not only how we look and feel, but also how we think and behave? 

I'm not going to pull any punches when I talk about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and it's milder form, ADD. Hyperactivity is a serioius problem for those who have it.  One 10-year-old boy summed up what it is like to have ADHD when he said, "You wouldn't want to be inside my head.  You'd be trampled to death."

Hyperactivity is not a childhood disease that goes away.  Children with ADHD grow up to be adults with ADHD.  That's a real tragedy, because one study at a federal prison determined that 75 percent of the inmate population had a history of childhood hyperactivity.

That doesn't mean your hyperactive child is Public Enemy #1 in the making.  What it does mean is that our school system is not set up to deal with kids suffering from ADHD.  Simply put, their behaviors - which they can not help without treatment - irritate other children and drive teachers to distraction.  Hyperactive kids are eight times more likely to drop out than average.  A bad school experience can set a child up for a lifetime of failure - or can turn a child into a driven workaholic.  The real tragedy is the answer to all this is sitting right in front of the child, on his or her plate.

For many families, the answer has been Ritalin, a powerful drug with many side effects.  Frankly, the "cure" can almost be as bad as the disease for the child and their family.

This is not really news.  In 1985, the prestigious British medical journal "The Lancet" published a study by Dr. Joseph Egger, head of pediatric university hospital in Munich, Germany, and another researcher from the Hospital for Sick Children in London.  In this study, the two doctors found when they eliminated foods that commonly cause toxic reactions to humans from the diet of hyperactive children, 79 percent of them immediately improved.  Subsequent studies have found similar rates of improvement.

The key element missing in this research, however, was determining exactly what foods are toxic to a particular child.  That is where food sensitivity testing comes in.  By identifying the unique toxic foods for an individual, it paves the way for quick improvements in these cases.

We have seen this numerous times at Advanced Neurotherapy.  When you combine food sensitivity testing with neurotherapy, the effects are incredibly powerful!  And not only does the child's attention improve, but other things as well, including: asthma, skin conditions, weight problems - both too much weight and problems gaining weight, digestive pain, headaches, and low energy.  Plus, it's a blood test, not a torturous elimination diet.  No guessing involved!

And yes, food sensitivity testing is powerful on its own, that is if you implement the results into your diet.  Call Shayna with questions.

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