ADHD Diet: Sara's Diet

As researchers uncover the relationships between food intolerances and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, more and more diets have been formulated to help children overcome the symptoms of this debilitating disorder. One of these specific ADHD diets is called Sara's Diet, or the lutein-free diet. Sara's diet is essentially a gluten-free, casein-free diet that also restricts foods containing lutein, a pigment that naturally occurs in some fruits and vegetables. The diet was developed when researchers discovered that removing gluten and casein without removing lutein led to allergic reactions to foods with lutein, causing a metabolic imbalance that gave rise to disrupted neurotransmitter activity.

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