Summary Of Let Food Be Thy Medicine By Marilyn Wedge

Throughout chapter five of, “Let Food Be Thy Medicine” of Marilyn Wedge’s book, A Disease Called Childhood, she has supported the idea that a child’s diet will affect their focus and overall activity based on her research. Wedge had originally cited the Mayo Clinic for their research that recommends for parents to put their children on a diet that will limit the children’s sugary/processed foods and instead offer nourishing them with foods such as; fruits, vegetables, and healthy fats. However, the Mayo Clinic also states that there is no evidence that food additives actually cause ADHD in children. I can qualify that a diet will affect some children's focus, behavior, and could possibly show signs of ADHD diagnosis based on further research done by BMJ Journals, New York Times, and the BBC. These diet based studies have shown prominent overdiagnosis of ADHD but, they also show that some children's focus and behavior, is not
For example; BMJ took a sample of 1,873 children to test how they would react with sugars being heavily reduced and controlled in their diet. In conclusion to their research, they found a significant reduction in hyperactive behavior amongst their group of preschoolers, but, not all children's behavior and hyperactivity changed based upon their diet. This study was approved and trusted by many hospitals and schools in the UK such as; the Infection, Inflammation and Repair Division, University of Southampton, Southampton, which was rated as one of the world’s top 100 universities. This study supports the idea that the consumption of sugars by certain children, will affect their focus and behavior. However, other groups of children's focus and behavior isn’t affected by