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

This is Wayne Callan for Attitude magazine. Today's topic, How Foods

Play a Key Role in Attention Deficit, is one of those topics that parents and

adults have been asking us about and telling us about for years.

There is plenty of anecdotal evidence from moms and dads, men and women,

that suggests how eliminating certain foods and adding others to the diet can help

with attention deficit symptoms.

We are very fortunate today to have Kelly Dorfman, a nutrition detective who works with medical professionals

around the country to help adults and children with complex ailments and symptoms.

Kelly has a master's degree in nutrition biology and is a licensed nutritionist

dietitian in Maryland and the District of Columbia. So welcome Kelly.

Thank you, Wayne.

I'm happy to be here.

So nutrition intervention works in two ways.

If you're looking at ways that nutrition can help with different kinds of medical conditions.

And I call this targeted nutrition therapy and other people call it other things, but there's

lots of ways that nutrition can intervene.

And many people, as Wayne have mentioned have noticed that when their kids

eat certain kinds of foods or don't eat certain kinds of foods that there's a difference

in their ability to pay attention and the question is how does that work and what things might be

affecting them and mostly this falls down into two categories there's some kind of

irritant so you'd be removing an irritant such as sugar or artificial color or flavor, or you could be replacing

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