Magnesium and ADD, ADHD
Elizabeth Walling published a detailed article on the connections between magnesium deficiency and ADD/ADHD, a condition easily corrected through dietary means. Check the recommended daily allowance of magnesium based on the age of your child. Also, seek out organic products which tend to be naturally higher in magensium.
This never ending stress, with its accompanying flood of adrenaline, drains the body of magnesium because this mineral is essential to the release of hormones like adrenaline. Since magnesium is used to calm the nervous system, the more stress children experience, the more magnesium their bodies use.
Poor nutrition. Children’s diets today are filled with processed foods, refined sugars and food additives. This type of diet depletes children of magnesium in two ways. First, this diet is extremely low in magnesium to begin with. Secondly, refined sugars and food additives can actually stress the nervous system, causing the body to use up magnesium supplies as it tries to counteract this effect.
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