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Cutting sugar does not improve ADHD, and nor does stripping out additives. Both have been tested repeatedly, including under conditions where nobody knew which child had eaten what.
The belief survives because parties are where children eat sweets, and parties are also loud, crowded and thrilling. The sugar takes the blame for…
Megavitamins, antioxidant products such as pycnogenol and assorted trace minerals have not beaten placebo for ADHD. They stay popular on the strength of a good story about how they ought to work.
The gap between a mechanism and an outcome is the thing worth teaching, because it will still be useful when the next product appears. Ask what…
Chiropractic neurologic organisation training, the kind involving manipulation of the skull, has no credible theory behind it for ADHD. The main harm is not the treatment itself but the months and the money that go into it.
Families meet this because it is marketed at them at the exact moment they are most willing to try anything. Naming it plainly, once, is usually…
With EEG neurofeedback, the weaker the study, the better the results look. Six large trials using sham feedback, with parents and teachers kept unaware of who received what, found nothing beyond placebo.
That shrinking with rigour is itself the finding. Blinding matters especially here because the outcome is a rating made by adults who have watched…
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