Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine.

Hello everyone and we're glad you can attend Attitudes Weekly ADHD Experts

webinar. We do hope that everyone is staying safe and staying well. Just some housekeeping before we get started.

If you've listened to one of our webinars before, you know we offer attendees a certificate of attendance.

When the webinar ends, post-event survey will pop up.

It will list three questions about the quality of the webinar,

followed by three questions titled required for certificate.

If you would like a certificate of attendance, email to you,

you should answer those three questions.

If you don't want a certificate, you don't have to answer the questions obviously.

And I'd just like to add that in the last couple of webinars we've had some sound

glitches. They're not major, small, but just wanted to make you aware of them. We might

have a few here and there. We'll do our best to smooth things out and keep things seamless.

Now for today's webinar topic, the statistics about ADHD

and living a healthy lifestyle are pretty stark and instructive. If you look at the four biggest health risks

in the US, poor diet, insufficient exercise, obesity and smoking, ADHD presents a greater risk than all four of these concerns combined,

according to ADHD expert and researcher Russell Berkeley.

To varying degrees, ADHD is a factor in many first-order lifestyle behaviors that result

in reduced life expectancy. And these behaviors are not likely to improve until the underlying problem, ADHD, is addressed.

In other words, treated.

The professional influencers who are most likely to have an impact on healthy lifestyle choices,

primary care physicians, pediatricians, cardiologists, and other health care professionals

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