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I was diagnosed with ADHD around the 3rd grade (2 separate psychiatrists diagnosed me) and have never heard about diets as working above all others. Are there any studies or information about this route or is it perhaps changing your eating behavior allowed you to do those same things with other parts of your life?


I don't know about studies but here's an anecdote. I've experimented with many potential factors for my ADHD over many years, and the strongest and cleanest correlation I've found is: More carbs and sugar => More brain fog.


Evidence for dietary intervention is too weak to recommend it in general: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_and_attention_deficit_hyp...

That said, it's always possible that an intervention works well in a subgroup of high-responders (this can be true even if the particular intervention is a placebo, not that that's necessarily the explanation here), so everyone saying it works for them should probably keep it up.


The book Healing ADHD by Dr Amen reccomends diet, and exercise based treatment, as well as stimulants and coaching. It's been a long time since I've read it, but at the time I used some of the techniques, and they worked really well. I should probably read it again.


There are some studies about certain nutrients being beneficial in the treatment of ADHD.

For example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23495677

This particular study found that phospholipid improves ADHD symptoms in children (4-14 yo).

There's some ongoing research about the neurotransmitters related to ADHD: https://psychcentral.com/lib/neurotransmitters-involved-in-a...

However, I don't know if any comprehensive studies have been conducted about the effects of diet to ADHD, it could be tricky to study that.


There have been under ~$500 prices for West Coast to PEK and PVG with semi-regularity for the last 12 months.


This is great! We've been using protected branches with 100+ developers contributing and often face the out of date branch issue as our GIT implementors didn't realize this would be an issue until it was too late.


Why would it make them feel worse? Wouldn't this give individuals a new technique for entering conversations?


I understand the article, that the technique consists in starting conversation with a two people that speak already - so the ones that do not have a conversation partner yet will stay alone. Or did I miss something?


I think both of you slightly misunderstood each other. You meant the people already in the room, he thought you said new people who entered.


That's the one part I don't like about it but that's because I go 5-15MPH over the speed limit at all times.


you can adjust the limit at which point it alerts you. You can set when the alert will go off area that have below 80km/h speed and those with speed over 80km/h. Mine is set to ping on 15km/h+ on the slower areas and 18km/h+over on the higher.


You can always turn that speed warning off if it bothers you.


They could also not be a dick and stick to the speed limit.


I don't ever post here but figured I'd add my two cents to this. I got a Nokia Lumia 928 about 40 days ago (just passed time for insurance). This past weekend I went on a trip from Seattle to Yellowstone. We had four people in the car and in most of Idaho and most of Montana there was very sparse 3G or LTE connection. My phone was the only one capable of doing offline GPS navigation. I've been quite surprised with how much I've enjoyed my Windows 8 phone and only become angry with the lack of games when I'm on the toilet.


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