Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition. This is brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.

I believe that most people today realize the importance of nutrition when it comes to heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and obesity.

But for some reason, many people have been a little bit slow when it comes to understanding what kind of impact food has on the brain

and on a variety of neurological diseases.

Today we're gonna share how food can help ADD and ADHD symptoms.

My name is Kara Carper and I'm a licensed nutritionist.

I have a master's degree in holistic health and I'm a certified nutrition

specialist as well. I'm really excited about our show today. We're going to discuss how you can

care for and freed your brain for optimal functioning, especially if you or maybe your child

has attention issues or struggles with behavior. And this morning,

I have Leah joining me as our co-host on Dishing Up Nutrition. Leah loves to share what the

current nutrition research is saying. So can you just introduce yourself for just a second and

maybe tell us a little bit about what type of nutrition research you found in the news this week.

Yes, well, good morning, Karen, good morning to all of our listeners out there.

My name is Leah Kleintrod.

I am a registered and licensed dietitian and I currently see clients out of our Mendota Heights location.

So with school in full swing right now and we're kind of in the middle of some school breaks, Thanksgiving, Christmas,

winter breaks for most schools, I have actually a number of kids and teens and even some college

students on my counseling schedule.

And I think more and more parents are starting to get attuned to and look for a natural way

to manage their child's ADHD symptoms. So they're looking to nutrition and they're looking

at our offices and making appointments

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