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The Brain Food Plan: Help Your Child Reach Their Potential and Overcome Learning Disabilities (The Learning Disablity Myth)

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My child has ADHD (7yrs old). When he was about 5 yrs old I was at about my wits end. I started reading Dr. Amen's books and in one of them he made a reference to Dr. Pauc. I was just about to go to one of Dr. Amens clinics and pay thousands of dollars when I found this book. After reading this book we jumped right into the dietary changes including adding zinc, Omegas (fish oils and evening prime rose oil) B vit, magnesium and some others. There was a dramatic change in my son with in 2 months and continued changes each month. Almost a year later, as I write this, most if not almost ALL of his ADHD behaviors are gone. He is still hyper and he still needs redirection starting or when doing homework but he is not impulsive anymore, he is much more tolerant(when having to listen or focus and of other people), his social skills have improved, he use to not make like to eye contact - now he does and he is getting all A's in school. I also reccomend the other books written by the same author. My son now follows an almost all additive free diet. Also free of all food colorings. I try to buy organic food when it matters most. It is work getting to this point and it does involve lifestyle changes for the whole family! But the end result is worth it! My child is not medicated and never has been thanks to this book! Mind you from time to time we do slip, when we do have occassional slips it doed not change his behavior. But after being on vacation for a week for example you can see the difference good eating makes at home. Once we get back on the program and eat right, take the suppliments - all is not lost - his behavior resumes to the calmer child he is now!

I have a 5 year old son with ASD. I liked Dr Pauc's first book "Is That My Child?: Exploding the Myths of Dyspraxia, Dyslexia, Tourette s Syndrome of Childhood, ADD, ADHD or OCD" Is That My Child?: Exploding the Myths of Dyspraxia, Dyslexia, Tourette s Syndrome of Childhood, ADD, ADHD or OCDwith the explanation on what's happening in the brain with these kids. This book builds on that theory and then includes some very simple exercises that everyone should be able to include in their days and some diet and supplement information. Dr. Pauc does not go into the standard biomedical approaches (GFCF, SCD, etc) but rather recommends what I'd call a more wholesome diet approach. I think that my son has benefited from a GFCF diet and removing his igG reactive foods. I did start him on omega 3's and zinc right after reading the first book as Dr pauc recommended and this helped his coordination, without an diet changes. End result, I'd recommend this first book for understanding the theory, this book for the exercises (which can't hurt, right?) and the following books for diet information:

Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders by Kenneth Bock (Author), Cameron Stauth (Author)Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders

Special-Needs Kids Eat Right: Strategies to Help Kids on the Autism Spectrum Focus, Learn, and Thrive by MPH, RD, LD, Judy Converse (Author)Special-Needs Kids Eat Right: Strategies to Help Kids on the Autism Spectrum Focus, Learn, and Thrive

Nourishing Hope for Autism: Nutrition Intervention for Healing Our Children by Autism Nutrition Specialist Julie Matthews (Paperback - 2008)Nourishing Hope for Autism: Nutrition Intervention for Healing Our Children