From A Denver Counselor: Bipolar Kids Need Nutrition

PRLog (Press Release) - Oct. 10, 2012 - The full article on this topic was released from the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service on October 16, 2008. We are providing excerpts below as a public service and as a way to give parents another option to consider - in collaboration with their physicians, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals - for children suffering from attention deficit disorder or bipolar disorder.

Pediatrician Lendon H. Smith, M.D., nationally famous as "The Children's Doctor," was very plain in stating that sugar causes profound mood disorders. He specifically advised parents to give their children a "sugarless diet without processed foods." (1) It is not easy. The Center for Science in the Public Interest has reported that children between the ages of six and eleven drink
nearly a pint of soda pop a day. 20% of toddlers drink soda pop, nearly a cup daily. (2) And, of the seven best selling soft drinks, six have caffeine in them. In sensitive persons, caffeine can cause psychotic behavior. (3)

To read the full article and for more information on children that are bipolar, please vsit http://westsidebehavioralblog.info/news.php?extend.8.5 or Westside Behavioral Care's website at http://www.westsidebehavioral.com

This article is offered as a public service by Westside Behavioral Care, Inc., a company that provides outpatient counseling, psychotherapy, and mental health services across the greater Denver metropolitan area.