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Is What’s On Your MENU effecting your Children’s MANNERS?

I must confess that I initially struggled with the idea that what I was eating could be affecting my behavior; after all I had ADHD and didn’t out grow it as adult.

For the longest time, I didn’t realize that many of the foods I craved and caffeine drinks I consumed was an attempt to self medicate my condition.  Why do our bodies crave certain foods that are addictive and have such adverse effects on our overall health, including our behavior?

Well, once we understand the cause if ADHD, then we are able to see the connection between the condition and certain foods we crave and that impact our overall mood and sense of mental stability.  ADHD is due to chemical imbalances in the brain caused by slow brain waves, neurotransmitter deviancies.

So, the ADHD mind needs a boost to get motivated and that’s where caffeine and cokes as well as sweet foods and simple carbs come in.

The problem is these additive foods that provide a temporary boost come with a crash and thus a very moody or cranky child.  These foods provide a temporary high that provides focus and a period of optimal attention and concentration, problem is they reak havoc on your bodies health  and always are followed by irritable and aggressive behaviors.

There is a better way to address the issue and that lies in an understanding of what your body is actually craving.  The ADHD mind lacks the ability to produce Dopamine and thus creates an imbalance that causes many of the ADHD symptoms.

So, changing your menu could in fact change your child’s manners by offering their brains foods rich in Dopamine thus correcting the imbalances, addressing the cause instead of medicating symptoms.  I have struggled with the effects of ADHD for more than 38 years and in the 12 months the changes in my MENU have profoundly impacted my life, health and overall behavior.

A year ago, I started eating a diet high in protein, low in fat and low in simple carbs and sugars, the results have been remarkable.  My cholesterol went down 105 points, my energy has gone up and my ability to focus and remember important details has increased and I’m less irritable and have no caffeine crashes.  I also have lost almost 30 pounds in the process!

The verdict is in and the reality is what’s on your MENU can impact your child or your ADHD husband’s manners.

For more information on the concept, you may consider the books:

“Train Your Brain Transform Your Life: Conquer ADHD in 60 Days Without Ritalin by Nicky Van Valkenburg

“The Virgin Diet

Dr. T. James Kimble LCPC, DCC

8 responses to “Is What’s On Your MENU effecting your Children’s MANNERS?”

  1. Thomas Kimble Avatar
    Thomas Kimble

    Introducing The 7 Nutritional Golden Rules to Empower YOU to Divorce YOURSELF from A.D.H.D.

    Golden Rule 1: Drink Plenty of Water; emphasis on plenty! Drink water before every meal, drink water first thing in the morning and around 1 hour before bed . Eliminate all caffeine drinks from your diet as well as all soda sugary beverages; this includes juices! Drink Green tea instead and use an infuser cup to create flavored drinks using plain frozen fruit and herbal tea’s as well as elimination boosting drinks that contain lemon cucumber mint or try an aloe vera lemon with honey drink.

    Golden Rule 2: Amp up Your protein intake. In fact you want “clean pure protein” at every meal and each meal should consist of 25 to 30 percent protein. To help you reach this goal you can incorporate a breakfast smoothie with a quality protein powder; I happen to like Plant Head and get it from GNC as it seems to be a high quality product but not to expensive! I will discuss The Breakfast Smoothie in more detail as it is covered in Golden Rule 5 and is an essential part of The Divorce.

    Check back soon as I will be providing more of The Nutritional Golden Rules necessary to Empower You to Divorce Yourself from A.D.H.D. Just a note: I have personally struggled with A.D.H.D. symptoms almost all of my life and 12 months ago I began to seriously research diet and nutrition because of my high cholesterol and started discovering truths about food/nutrition that I didn’t know. My cholesterol has gone down 100 points, I have lost almost 30 pounds and I am A.D.H.D. free for the first time in 38 years ; turns out that food is medicine and if You will take your medicine their is a plethora of evidence to support the fact you can correct the actual causes of A.D.H.D.

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  2. Thomas Kimble Avatar
    Thomas Kimble

    Are YOU able to think outside the box about food being medicine?

    Joshua’s Friends and Your Best Life Now Counseling are dedicated to continue to empower families to live beyond challenging life issues by offering cutting edge family supports that are always family friendly as well as faith-based. That’s why we are in the process of introducing The 7 Nutritional Golden Rules to empower YOU or YOUR loved one to divorce YOUR minds marriage from the symptoms of A.D.H.D.

    The Nutritional Golden Rules have become a vital part of our family support system that enhance our “Upside down Philosophy or Care” arming families with the knowledge that food really is medicine and YOU and YOUR children are what YOU eat. Not to mention the fact Good Nutrition is just not discussed as a comprehensive part of a healthy family support and protective factor! Nutrition is a definite protective factor and their is plenty of evidence based research to support the reality that modifying diet can alleviate as well as eliminate the symptoms of A.D.H.D.

    We hope You will take a closer look at The 7 Nutritional Golden Rules, as they come available on Insider Scoop, and think about how what YOU and YOUR family eat has a direct connection to overall health and wellness. As always we are dedicated to empowering families to live beyond disabilities and challenging life issues because every family deserves to experience a place to grow beyond impossibilities!

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    Thomas Kimble

    The 7 Nutritional Golden Rules Continued:

    Golden Rule 3: Get off Complex Carbs and Sugars in exchange for a Low Carb approach with some simple sugars like those found in Fruits and Vegetables. Don’t worry YOU can still have some snacks even chocolate only without sugar. The Paleo Mom has a great sugar free version of the almond joy sweetened with honey that’s truly decadent! The idea here is YOUR going to reduce YOUR carb intake below 45% of YOUR daily calorie intake and discuss with YOUR personal physician about what low carb levels are right for YOU; but remember this is an important part of the nutritional change so be sure to let YOUR Doc in on what YOUR goals are for going on a ketogenic type diet plan. Also remember that YOU are giving up sugar as well and this may need to be done in small steps as it is addictive and YOU will most likely experience some withdraws. Be encouraged as sugar was the hardest food for me to forgo but the benefits are well worth it and YOU will feel so good and YOUR mind will thank you in countless ways! I will be discussing these concepts in more details in later post as well as a e-booklet I will be releasing soon. As always Joshua’s Friends is all about empowering families to live beyond disabilities and challenging life issues ; because every family deserves to experience a place to grow beyond impossibilities!

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  4. Thomas Kimble Avatar
    Thomas Kimble

    The 7 Nutritional Golden Rules Continued:

    Golden Rule 4: Good Fats are YOUR friend so increase them in place of the Carbs and Bad Fats you normally would consume. One of the absolute best Good Fats is Coconut Oil; learn how to incorporate this fat into YOUR diet it is a powerful brain food! YOUR thinking; wont all that Fat be harmful to the body? My Cholesterol has gone down over 100 points on this nutritional plan (notice I didn’t say diet) and the reality is that fat isn’t was causes heart disease; the real culprit is Carbohydrates! Carbs cause inflammation and some refer to this condition as “wheat belly” and understanding the truth about Food can change YOUR life as well as transform YOUR behavior! I will discuss more Good Fats in my upcoming e-book that will be available soon for those of YOU who are interested in taking YOUR life back!

    As always Joshua’s Friends/Your Best Life Now Counseling is dedicate to empowering families to live beyond disabilities and challenging life issues because every family deserves to experience a place to grow beyond impossibilities! Faith- based special needs supports are what we are all about and offering families facing challenging life issues a strength based, solution focused, approach that actually perpetuates a best practices model that is evidence based is just ingrained in our DNA! Besides the evidence speaks for itself and we know YOU really are what YOU eat and YOU might think about the fact YOU are what YOU eat ate as well!

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  5. Thomas Kimble Avatar
    Thomas Kimble

    7 Nutritional Golden Rules Continued

    Rule 5: The Breakfast Smoothie is a must to start out YOUR day. Most people eat more junk food at breakfast without even realizing it; the smoothie solves this problem and delivers a much needed protein boost that YOUR mind craves in order to produce electro chemical messengers necessary for healthy brain activity.

    Rule 6: Find out if YOU are lactose or glutton intolerant; as much as 60% of people who have A.D.H.D. symptoms actually have a food intolerance and don’t know it! Notice I said food Intolerance not food allergy; its important to understand the difference and once YOU identify an intolerance YOU need to eliminate that food from YOUR diet. For example I eat no dairy except for Greek Yogurt which is virtually lactose free.

    After 38 years of A.D.H.D. I am taking control of my life, health and physical well being; my cholesterol went down 105 points and I closing in on my 30 pound weight loss goal! Most of all I am completely A.D.H.D. symptom free and I love it!!

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  6. Thomas Kimble Avatar
    Thomas Kimble

    The 7 Nutritional Golden Rules Continued

    Ok! I must confess the counselor side of me has surfaced in rule 7. This could possibly mean the difference between YOUR success and failure as YOU apply the 7 Golden Rules to YOUR life. The reality is that many people are not very successful on any diet let alone a nutritional strategy that requires YOU to give up sugar. I would like to point out here; this is not a diet per say and there is a version of the almond joy, I enjoy on occasion, that has no refined or processed sugar that satisfy even the meanest sweet tooth! There are other amazing snacks that are possible as well, but I want to provide YOU with a few thoughts here that will set YOU up for success not failure as YOU begin a lifestyle change that has unimaginable benefits just waiting for YOU to discover as YOU go along. I didn’t just wake up one day and say I think I’m going on this amazing eating plan that’s going to change my life and divorce my minds marriage from A.D.H.D. This is what I know about human behavior; YOU are many more times likely to succeed at this plan and get the results YOU long for if YOU tackle 1 battle at a time rather than attempting to wage a war on all fronts. In other words, choose one change to take on at a time. My first challenge was to stop drinking soda completely and then I gradually took myself off coffee. I now drink a variety of tea’s with no or very low caffeine green tea is actually very good for YOU! I discovered I am lactose intolerant so I started taking myself off dairy and what a difference that has made! I then began working on breakfast and did a lot of trial and error until I arrived at the breakfast smoothie with added protein powder; this is the easiest way to guarantee YOUR nutritional needs are being met and YOUR not falling prey to all that not good for YOU garbage in a breakfast disguise! Then I began adjusting my Carbs and replacing them with good healthy fats instead. The last thing to go for me was sugar and this was no ease task at first, but now that I have some terrific snack recipes I am sugar free except for simple sugars I get from some fruits. This was about a year long process and I wouldn’t take anything for my journey now because I am starting to reap all the benefits of The 7 Nutritional Golden Rules! If YOU will begin with a plan that takes on 1 Golden Rule per week or allows YOU to slowly take YOURSELF of sugar in stages YOU will find that YOU will be more successful; remember sugar is a drug! A resent study was released that confirmed it’s easier to stop using Cocaine than it is to stop eating Sugar! So realize that YOUR body is toxic and addicted to the most difficult drug there is to get off. Sugar not fat is responsible for all the inflammation and disease in the human body of most people in North America; this is a well established fact that not enough of us are talking about!

    I am living proof that YOU can be successful at overcoming A.D.H.D. with nutritional changes and the reality is that food is medicine! I am almost at the 30 pounds lost mark, my cholesterol has gone down 105 points and my long time nagging joint pains have subsided; as well as my allergies have all but gone away! Most important is that all my A.D.H.D. symptoms are completely gone and I love it! Oh and it’s also important to understand I am not selling any product, pills, shakes or juice of any kind; I just want to help others discover the powerful truth about food and nutrition.

    I believe that YOU can take back control of YOUR life and that with the truth about food and the help of God and YOUR families support YOU can change the way YOU eat and think about food forever! Joshua’s Friends/Your Best Life Now Counseling is dedicated to empowering families to live beyond disabilities and challenging life issues and that includes using nutrition to change and rehabilitate YOUR brain; it is possible to change YOUR brain because the brain is flexible not set. We are excited to be on the cutting edge of many evidence based supports and offer a strengths based Temperament approach that provides a Family Support System of Care that has a proven track record. Our “Upside Down Philosophy of Care” provides families with a person centered approach capable of creating functional solutions that meet families where they are at their point of need. This kind of approach is refreshing and allows families to discover real answers to core issues as well as closure to many concerns that are often over looked or over medicated; we believe that every family deserves to experience a place to grow beyond impossibilities! Please contact us at http://www.joshuasfriends.org if YOU need more information about The 7 Nutritional Golden Rules or any other Family Support we offer!

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  7. T.J. Kimble Avatar
    T.J. Kimble

    The 7 Nutritional Golden Rules for Divorcing Your Minds Marriage From A.D.H.D., Anxiety, and Depression

    In this revealing book you will discover the truth about foods and their direct effects on the body and mind. Realizing the impact that foods, pervasive in the American and westernized diet, are having on our culture; warrants the insights and practical solutions found in this 7 step response system. These nutritional golden rules are hard hitting. Addressing the actual core causes of conditions that have become commonplace in the modern world. Could the food that you eat actually be causing physical and mental maladies, responses, and illnesses to becoming rampant within your body? And what about the truth concerning food intolerances and hypersensitivities to certain trigger foods? The truth, many professional simply are just not talking about, might surprise you. Like the fact that researchers have documented that over 60% of children diagnosed with A.D.H.D. symptoms are actually experiencing hypersensitivities to particular foods. And what about the myths we continue to believe about certain foods like fats? What if most fats are not part of the problem but actually a functional part of the cure for both the mind and the body? In this book you will learn the truth about good fats among other surprising foods. These 7 Nutritional Golden Rules empower the body to work to correct conditions by teaching you how to eat nutrient dense foods capable of assisting your body to heal from the inside out.

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      T.J. Kimble

      Also encounter a unique behavior intervention approach based on best practices that are results driven. Plus, benefit from a lifelong process of struggles, failures, and successes that have evolved into a simply sustainable eating plan. The 7 nutritional strategies outlined and contained in the pages of this book are for everyone, but everyone’s not going to be for these strategies. Those looking for pills, powders, and placebo type quick fixes that make for great new years resolutions are not going to find themselves at home with The 7 Nutritional Golden Rules. But as for you and everyone else ready to discover real freedom from foods and their toxic side effects these 7 golden rules are for you! While putting these time tested principles into practice, extinguishing many of the symptoms of A.D.H.D., anxiety and depression, there’s also the clever unveiling of the illusion of wellness. This concept empowers and actualizes an understanding of many of the behavior components involved in eating foods. The addictive emotional nature of certain foods that subconsciously manipulate our brains driving and motivating many unsustainable eating habits are exposed. This cognitive behavior concept is set to the familiar storyline found in the timeless classic The Wizard of Oz. This highly recognizable story becomes the perfect platform to reveal the actual control that food unknowingly exercises over so many. The illusion of control comes face to face with the illusion of wellness. And an Oz moment is born empowering all who are willing to embrace the truth to realize a freedom from foods that is actually sustainable.
      A great awakening concerning the function of foods awaits all who choose to journey the road less traveled; namely, The 7 Nutritional Golden Rules. For all who have the courage or want to find the courage to experience freedom from foods control you have come to the right place. Not to mention the number grows daily of people who are using these nutritional golden rules to experience the illusion of wellness in Oz moment fashion. The results really do speak for themselves. Like no more A.D.H.D. symptoms after almost 40 years of daily drudgery, no more anxiety after seasons of constant ongoing panic attacks, no more clinical depression after a lifetime struggle including 3 suicidal episodes, no more high cholesterol after a 100 point drop in blood test, no more basketball belly after losing 50 lbs and keeping it off! The list of no more continues to expand and grow daily. But what about you? And what about your list of no more’s? In The 7 Nutritional Golden Rules you have found the knowledge and understanding capable of leveraging your own Oz moment. Empowering an exchange where you let go of the illusion of control in order to make room for the illusion of wellness; thus encountering the power of food as medicine and experiencing complete wholeness of body, soundness of spirit, and healing of soul from the inside out. May your journey begin and may you discover a blamelessness (amemptos) at levels of life that will change the way you eat, you live , and move, and a brand new experience of becoming what you eat at all levels of your life!

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