(2011-04-12) Pelsser Add And Diet

Lidy Pelsser wrote a study published in Lancet showing that diet could improve ADD (ADHD) symptoms.

There are a variety of possible criticisms of the study.

Some people are interpreting it to be about "whole foods" (not quite Organic Food), though the inclusion of rice (which I don't think was brown) challenges that spin.

Others think it's about avoiding additives.

Still others think it's just about sensitivities (like allergies) in general, which could be to "whole foods", too. Pessler is the first to admit that no one can follow such a severe diet for very long. The children in her study have been gradually adding foods back to their diet. "We've followed all these children for about a year, and each child reacts to different foods," she says. For one child, triggers included beets, tomatoes, wheat and bananas; for another, it was fish, pork, eggs and oranges.

One reason to play the Quantified Self game is to support a process of Self Experimentation.