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From http://www.addconsults.com/articles/full.php3?id=1105
Article goes on to talk about self-medicating ADD with food and mentions that it's not that sugar causes hyperactivity in people with ADD, but that people with ADD crave sugar (to calm themselves down, in fact.) I've been having a lot of scary-feeling, low-sugar moments lately, so I found this interesting.
It is no accident that binge food is usually high in sugars and carbohydrates, especially when you take into consideration how the ADD brain is slow to absorb glucose. One of the Zametkin PET scan studies, results indicated that "Global cerebral glucose metabolism was 8.1 percent lower in the adults with hyperactivity than in the normal controls..." [1] Other research has also confirmed slower glucose metabolism in ADD adults with and without hyperactivity. This suggests that the binge eater is using these foods to change his or her neurochemistry.
Article goes on to talk about self-medicating ADD with food and mentions that it's not that sugar causes hyperactivity in people with ADD, but that people with ADD crave sugar (to calm themselves down, in fact.) I've been having a lot of scary-feeling, low-sugar moments lately, so I found this interesting.
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