Joe Wicks says junk food causes ADHD

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13292511/amp/Joe-Wicks-blames-ultra-processed-junk-explosion-children-ADHD-reveals-ran-sugar-kid-thinks-love-Sunny-Delight-Wagon-Wheels-jam-sandwiches-caused-behavioural-issues.html

I politely disagree with Joe. I have a very health conscious friend who cooks from scratch, plenty of vegetables and a Mediterranean diet as recommended by all healthcare professionals and has two children. One has ADHD and one doesn’t.

Has Joe jumped the shark on this one?

He really is. As a kid of the sixties we grew up wagon wheels, instant whip, smash….dont think it caused more adhd.

I am checking in so that no one asks where is the OP are they ever coming back!

My nephew has ADHD. He is fed a grain free junk free paleo diet. My SIL is very careful with the food she cooks: gluten free, no crap and everything wholesome and from scratch.

Parenting has enormous challenges. Food can exacerbate behaviours that are already there. Just like alcohol. Does alcohol cause ADHD?

Off piste here but what does grain free mean?

@RiffRaffBananas but he isn’t saying it causes it

Interesting. Does it help? What does he eat?

meat, fruit and vegetables? Dairy?

is it just grains she cuts out? Is there any basis or research indicating this diet is beneficial in adhd?

Does he think adhd is just children being high on sugar? So ignorant.

I was under the impression that children with adhd should limit saturated fat which must get tricky with paleo?

I was brought up with a strictly organic and very low sugar diet. Have ADHD and dyslexia 🤔

Does Joe still subscribe to the (disproven) theory that the MMR causes autism? A PT who I know who trained at the same place as
Joe believes this. 🙄

My mum used to make homemade 'ketchup' FFS. I didn't have any junk at all.

DD has proper home cooked everything.

The squirrels are in charge of both our brains. Joe Wicks is a wanker. Which DD will be ecstatic to hear because his lockdown YouTube which is forced her to do made her very angry.

I agree with you totally.
Always thought he was a twat and this confirms it.

I (genuinely) don't mean to overstep but, speaking as a diabetic, if you aren't diabetic & haven't been tested for diabetes, you might want to think about this if carbs cause your blood sugars to become volatile. In a non-diabetic they shouldn't go much over 7.8mmol/l even after a full meal.

No dairy. This diet was implemented from birth. Foods they eat include meat,veg, fruit, quinoa (seed not grain) rice (so grain not wheat my bad) 85% chocolate which I think is important to highlight here (lighthearted).

Also, diet was created before any diagnosis so it’s down to SIL’s beliefs but I support these because I get indigestion if I eat too much pasta/bread which is slightly beside but possibly related.

This
I work in school and a lot of parents are jumping on the bandwagon proclaiming ADHD because they want a label and an an excuse and medication rather than looking at their parenting and see first how to mitigate the symptoms with diet/boundaries on screen time/sleep etc. because that takes effort and patience.

I hope your management team (and more importantly, your students and their families) don't know your opinions about this.

Actually, scrap that. I hope they find out.

You have no place working with children with additional needs. In my school you'd be well and truly on the radar.

(And @Everanewbie you can give over with your digs about parenting causing these issues and that anyone who's come across JW and his opinions on many things must have had a nerve touched. My child is 21 and at university. No SN. She hates fizzy drinks, always has. But I'm not a thick fuck who thinks that that's the reason she doesn't have ADHD.)

Ah the eloquence of someone who refers to themselves as not being a ‘thick fuck’😂😂
As a teacher I have every sympathy for those with additional needs, but not at all for those lazy and selfish parents who put it all on the school/society/ anyone but themselves to parent their children and tend to their basic needs in nutrition and sleep.

I'm sorry but diet does affect behaviour. ADD and ADHD is massively over diagnosed. I teach and meet lots of students with both - particularly ADHD. Most do just have a terrible diet and limited boundaries at home and so struggle to sit still and concentrate. Some seem to have something more genuinely affecting their ability to concentrate (I know that's not the only feature of ADHD). The issue is that the term is too broad.

He’s should stick to teaching people how to do star jumps! He’s thick as mince …

@Q2C4

There are three diabetics in my immediate family and I have done lots of research into diet and diabetes. In my dad's side, as a family we really don't function well on grains or anything that has gluten. Terrible keratosis Polaris, it's type gastric stuff, chronic heartburn etc. When I eat a clean diet like I describe, this does right down and my rheumatoid arthritis is easier to deal with as well. I've spoken to my Gp and rheumatologist and they are 100% happy with me carrying on the way I am with my diet. I also ferment my own sauerkraut and kimchi, grow my own mushrooms and bake my own sourdough weekly ( the only way I will eat any form of bread and it goes through autolyse and a long cold ferment to improve the dough so I can tolerate it). But I do get that petite shouldn't do serious diet changes on a whim.

Nobody has blamed the schools.
JW has (yet again) opened his trap and blamed parents.

(Teacher since 1994, and think that a lot of "teachers" on here can't possibly be, as their utterly transparent hatred of children and parents is an abomination- and I include those who are recently retrained and work in nice independent schools)

I don't really have an opinion on the actual subject but I think it's concerning the level of vitriol aimed at anyone who doesn't outright disagree with JW. I think it's symptomatic of a general increased polarisation in society. People are not going to change their opinion because of insults. That works for both sides of the debate.

This is hilarious. The effort and patience required to go through the diagnosis process is monumental and in most areas includes so much scrutiny of your parenting and an awkward parenting course for either a full week, or a string of afternoons using up your annual leave - i cant see anyone doing it as the lazy option.
Plus once you have the diagnosis its not as if you dont have to parent the child. You just now know which strategies will work.

Not all people with adhd get medication anyway, and those that do tend to time it so the school gets the benefit of the bit of the day its working and the parents deal with the side effects and the time when its worn off.

And in the early 70s, Tom and Jerry cartoons made kids violent, in the 80s video nasties made kids violent, etc, etc.
Mr Wicks has no idea wtf he is talking about.