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ADHD-diet related what a surprise. A new study from Perth’s Telethon Institute for Child Health Research shows an association between ADHD and a “Western-Style” diet in adolescents. The research findings have been published online in the international Journal of Attention Disorders.

Western Diet

Research isn’t needed for this association. For many years western trained medical professionals claimed diet doesn’t influenced behavior or physical conditions. Now, we started to spend research dollars to see what was obvious, you are what you eat.

To assume that food doesn’t make a difference, when that is the fuel that runs the body, is preposterous. Your brain needs vitamins, minerals, and good omega 3 fatty acids. The high sugar content displaces and depletes the vitamin and minerals. 

Nutritional studies

What was found was a diet high in western type foods; the typical junk food diet doubled the risk of having an ADHD diagnosis. The appropriate title should be flying high, which is what happens on a high sugar diet.

An adolescent’s diet usually consists of fast food, and high sugar snacks. Plus the fact that they consume more calories than they can work off. They not only jeopardize their brains functions, but put their health on the line.

At this time of life emotional upheavals are also diet related. For an adolescent this is the time to develop balance and strength coordinating yesterday’s best with tomorrow’s promise. It is a time to pursuit passions and maturity.

ADHD

What ADHD is in plain terms is multiple dysfunctions and out of sync responses. It denotes scattered out of order responses from a person ill equipped to find the right mix of emotions, and control to express them with.

They miss everything and anything because of their scattered attention. What this says is that a possibly friendly and outgoing child resonates with a scattered presence. What can cause this is a diet high in processed foods, sugar, and high fructose corn syrup.  

Help

Knowing where to look for help means you must experiment with the diet to experience a difference. Health-conscious consumption will take the bite out of ADHD and enhance focus.

The food of today is the actions of tomorrow. It is as simple as that.

We need a fresh take on niacin; most of the information is from a pharmaceutical prospective.

Niacin

Overall niacin or nicotinic acid is used under the care and monitoring of a health care provider. It is used to increase good cholesterol (HDL)

HDL is known as the good cholesterol because of its protective effect on the heart and blood vessels. Its role in heart health is undisputed. This role that it plays is straightforward. The multiple health benefits come from its ability to remove excess cholesterol in the blood and bring it to the liver for disposal. By doing so it may remove excess cholesterol from arterial plaque, and slow its buildup. In fact high LDL and total cholesterol dangers can be offset by a high HDL reading.

The fact that niacin raises HDL doesn’t mean that it is capable, cost effective or compelling enough to be used by itself for this purpose. Niacin is remarkable as a naturally occurring B3 vitamin present in food sources. It is established, and proven that niacin in the form of B3 restores HDL levels.

Niacin is a type of B vitamin that also aids in the function of the digestive system, skin, nerves and heart health. An adult needs at the very least 14-16mg of niacin daily to function properly. Niacin was first used in the1950’s and as such is the oldest of today’s treatment for lowering cholesterol.

Vitamin B3

Vitamin B3 plays an essential role in energy metabolism. This vitamin works with vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B6, pantothenic acid, and biotin to break the carbohydrates, fats, and proteins into energy. Vitamin B3 aids in the production of hydrochloric acid for digestion. This is the anti-pellagra vitamin.

Natural occurring vitamin B3 is somewhat different than pure niacin. The optimal form of any vitamin comes from a source that integrates all the diverse components that compliment it, Vitamin B3 is no different.

The best dietary sources of vitamin B3 are found in beets, brewer’s yeast, beef liver, beef kidney, pork, turkey, chicken, veal, fish, salmon, swordfish, tuna, sunflower seeds, and peanuts.

Niacin is in a wide variety of foods both animal and vegetable sources contain this nutrient. Vitamin B3 can also be found in brewer’s yeast, broccoli, carrots, cheese, dandelion greens, dates, potatoes, tomatoes, wheat germ, and whole wheat. Herbs such as alfalfa, burdock root, catnip, cayenne, chamomile, chickweed, eyebright, fennel seeds, hops, licorice, nettle, oat straw, parsley, peppermint, raspberry leaf, rose hips, and slippery elm.

The liver is the main storage area for vitamin B3 and the absorption takes place in the intestines. B3 is required by the body for digestion, activation of enzymes that nourish the brain, to regulate blood pressure and cholesterol.

Vitamin B3 is usually found in combination with other B vitamins such as thiamine, riboflavin, pantothenic acid, pyridoxine, cyanocobalamin, and folic acid. Vitamins are not isolated in nature.

Niacin Side Effects  

Large doses of niacin can cause liver damage, peptic ulcers, and skin rashes. In the high doses that are used for controlling cholesterol levels, nicotinic acid can cause skin flushing, skin itching, headaches, lightheadedness, and low blood pressure. People who are pregnant, diabetic, or have ulcers have to very careful.

A high dose of vitamin B3 is not without problems. Besides serious liver damage, people who suffer from asthma, liver disease, gallbladder disease, gout, glaucoma or ulcers should be extremely careful with taking this in a supplement form.

High dose of nicotinic acid (about 3 grams daily) has caused impaired glucose tolerance in healthy individuals.

Summary   

In nature very little appears in isolation. Natural occurring substance are packaged to have dual purposes, so that they posses both economy of purpose and the greatest yield. The only guarantee that you are getting the vitamin B3 in the safest optimal form is by consuming a diversified diet of whole foods.

ANTI-AGING INGREDIENTS ON THE DINNER PLATE

We now we have some proof the anti-aging ingredients are on your dinner plate.  Researchers at McMaster University have developed a cocktail of ingredients that forestalls major aspects of aging.

FINDINGS

The findings are published in the current issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine.

The study found that a complex dietary supplement powerfully offsets this key symptom of ageing in old mice by increasing the activity of the cellular furnaces that supply energy – or mitochondria – and by reducing emissions from these furnaces – or free radicals – that are thought to be the basic cause of ageing itself.

Using bagel bits soaked in the supplement to ensure consistent and accurate dosing, the formula maintained youthful levels of locomotor activity into old age whereas old mice that were not given the supplement showed a 50 per cent loss in daily movement, a similar dramatic loss in the activity of the cellular furnaces that make our energy, and declines in brain signaling chemicals relevant to locomotion. This builds on the team’s findings that the supplement extends longevity, prevents cognitive declines, and protects mice from radiation.

Ingredients consists of items that were purchased in local stores selling vitamin and health supplements for people, including vitamins B1, C, D, E, acetylsalicylic acid, beta carotene, folic acid, garlic, ginger root, ginkgo biloba, ginseng, green tea extract, magnesium, melatonin, potassium, cod liver oil, and flax seed oil. Multiple ingredients were combined based on their ability to offset five mechanisms involved in ageing.

SCIENCE VS. NATURE

This study showed  both the remarkable extension of physical function in old mice, and extended longevity. With this comes hopes of developing more effective supplements.

Nature has already done that for us all we have to do is part take. What you put on your plate is more powerful than any supplements you buy.