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

Good afternoon everyone is Susan Coffin here for Attitude magazine. I'm very

very pleased to have Dr. standing Newmark with us again. Dr. Newmark is a very

well-known doctor in the field of integrative medicine.

He is the founder of the Center for Pediatric Integrative Medicine in San Francisco

and the author of a book that we highly recommend to you called

ADHD without drugs, a guide to national care of children in ADHD.

His topic today is nutrition.

He's also going to take some questions on supplements and vitamins which I know a number of you have

asked for more information about so with that thank you dr new mark and let me

turn it over to you

uh... thank you very much and welcome to everybody who is listening.

The first thing I will say is that nutrition can really make a huge difference in the success

of children with ADHD.

And that's whether they're taking medications or they're not

taking medications. I've seen time and time again in my practice where parents have

found that simple nutritional changes like changing breakfast or sending school lunch can really, really make a difference.

And we'll talk about the ways to do that soon.

The second point I'd like to make is about artificial colors and

flavors and preservatives, some preservatives. These actually across the board cause people to be more

hyper and pay less attention. Studies have been done that show that even normal three and four year olds,

normal eight and nine year olds, when they're given certain artificial colors and

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