86- Food Fixes: Eat Your Way to Better Focus, Mood, Memory, and Motivation
ADHD Experts Podcast
ADDitude
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2015
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Your meal choices can impact your ADHD. Tana Amen, BSN, RN, discusses what you should eliminate from your family's diet and the specific foods you should start eating to improve symptoms, with plenty of simple menu ideas.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine. |
| 0:12.0 | Hey everyone I'm Susan Coffin and you're listening to Attitude magazine's ADHD |
| 0:16.3 | experts audio broadcast. The topic today is food, food and nutrition and it's a |
| 0:21.2 | topic of deep deep interest to all of us with attention deficit issues or |
| 0:24.7 | with children with attention or learning challenges. |
| 0:26.8 | I guess what we'd all like to know is what foods are best for brain health, for attention, |
| 0:32.0 | for focus, for cognition, and what shouldn't we be eating? |
| 0:35.0 | And you know, finally I think the question that many people have |
| 0:38.0 | is, is there research that tells us anything about food |
| 0:41.0 | or are we dealing with just tons of fads? |
| 0:43.2 | How do we sort of filter through all the information about what to eat and what not to eat |
| 0:48.0 | in order to figure out what's best for us and our family? |
| 0:51.1 | We're so pleased today to have as our guest, Tana Amman. |
| 0:54.0 | She is a nurse as well as a health and fitness expert with just amazing credentials. |
| 0:58.6 | She's the author of six books, including a New York Times bestseller called the Omni Diet. |
| 1:03.0 | So with that, let me turn it over to Tana Amin. |
| 1:06.6 | And thank you again for being here. |
| 1:08.4 | Oh, thanks, Susan. |
| 1:10.0 | Well, I'm so excited to be here, and this is one of my favorite audiences obviously because we deal so much with this. |
| 1:16.3 | So for anybody who doesn't know my husband is Dr. Daniel Aeman and we have six clinics and AEDD our specialty so so much fun for me and as |
| 1:26.1 | someone who grew up in a very A D. household it's sort of fun because I |
| 1:31.8 | actually didn't believe in A.D. when I first met my husband. I thought it was nonsense. |
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