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?

Joe Wickes, the gift that keeps on giving.

From his pick me pick me bandwaggoning during COVID to this.

He really is an expert on everything isn't he.

I do find he's a useful twatometer when meeting new people though. Anyone who says "we loved lockdown, jumping up and down to Joe Wickes" immediately gets a wide berth.

some people are happy to accept that some things eg fish oils can help with brain development and concentration etc but aren’t open to the fact that perhaps some foods/substances may have a negative impact?

I think he’s worded it badly and been insensitive. I have a child with ASD, ARFID and ADHD and he does seem to have some dietary triggers for certain behavioural issues and also tics so I’m open to the idea that diet can play a part but it definitely isnt the cause.

The correct question to ask is ‘Is it ADD or trauma response?’

The family court system puts the rights of the parents above the needs of the children. My experience has been that my children have been traumatized by their father’s emotional abuse of me. This looks a lot like ADD because trauma over a sustained period causes inattention issues and anxiety.

The food does impact the effect ADD but running has been a massive game changer for myself and my children. It’s the only thing that clears my head and my elder two children are medicated now but the medication works better when they run at least 3 miles a day.

He never said it causes ADHD though!

That’s just a clickbait title.

I expect he'll have a book out about it soon.

"Joe Wickes, give your kid a banana while I laugh all the way to the bank because I told you to"

@ASighMadeOfStone so he is a twat because he helped a lot of people keep fit both physically and mentally during lockdown and he is a twat because he says junk food can have an impact on behaviour

Research has shown that the genes for adhd can vary in their expression depending on the environment. So a poor environment - say drug use, poverty, poor diet may mean these genes may be expressed as Schizophrenia. In a nice Mn family the same genes may mean manageable ADHD that can be medicated leading to successful individuals. We have the full gamut in our wider family. Successfully very academic individuals & drug induced Schizophrenia. ADHD can predispose to a chaotic behaviour/lifestyle & a consequent effect on family life.

Joe Wicks is not an ADHD expert. He is rather hard of thinking and should stick to what he does know.

Dd has adhd she was raised on a low suger fresh cooked diet still has it she lives off veg always has tons of it

Ds adhd and autism slightly more upfs growing up but not massive suger intake still adhd

Ds2 autistic arfrid most likely adhd too has zero behaviour difficulties in fact he is so chilled out another child throws tables around ds2 simply wanders away zero rush has been known to have a high suger diet because he weights so little but potentially ADHD three children three different diets in the same home with the same/similar difficulties

I most likely do have adhd never been diagnosed but I tick all the boxes my father most likely has autism he ticks all those boxes too we were both raised in a time before many upfs my mother refused ping meals and suger was something not tolerated in our house growing up (nor salt) controversially I didn't add suger to my child's cornflakes growing up and they don't add it now

Joe wicks needs to leave it to the professionals and stop jumping on overloaded bandwagons

He's not very bright, is he?

This study was interesting. A link between sugar and children's behaviour is often more due to parents' perceptions than reality: Does sugar make children hyperactive? - BBC Future

Joe Wicks should get back in his box. He barely seems competent in what he is supposed to know about let alone the pathology of neurodiverse presentations. That’s all someone with ADHD (or a parent of a child with ADHD) needs, the insinuation that having ADHD is their fault because they didn’t eat right.

He literally has no medical training so obviously he’s a bit of an idiot for saying this.

The only thing I could potentially agree with although I’m clutching at straws here is he is ignorant enough to think a child high on sugar is the same as the hyperactivity seen in children with ADHD… but that’s a completely different thing and it just shows he’s uneducated.

For what feels like the millionth time, he didn't say bad diet causes ADHD 🙈

ignorant and uneducated?
He has a sports science degree and an MBE so he must be doing something right.

No, he's a twat because of the absolute glee with which he made parents feel inadequate, and continues to do so. He's a twat because of how he made women feel inadequate and how he objectifies his wife. He's a twat because he belittled schools' efforts during Covid. He's a twat because he is a tedious virtue signaller for whom any opportunity to tell parents, women, children, wives, schools that they aren't as good as he is is an opportunity to be grasped with both hands.

He's abhorrent.

I can believe that too much sugar causes children to behave hyperactively for a short amount of time. He seems to be conflating that with actual ADHD which is bonkers. It is usually possible, if you are around children enough, to tell the difference between excited, hyped up child that is sugar crazy and ADHD child who literally cannot help themselves or their impulses and is like it all the time, bless them.

Just a few years before he became Professor Joe Wicks.

My parents wouldn’t let us eat and drink a variety of different groceries others seemed to have in abundance for these reasons, they were pretty liberal other than that so no fizzy drinks unless homemade, no sweets at all, rare to have cordial as the E numbers in them. My parents were pretty liberal other than that but my Dad also thought Crap TV mostly ITV wasn’t any good for the developing brain, he also played a lot of classical music or Opera as he said the brain had to work harder when listening to it, consequently making you smarter. That said, he loved Jazz and my Mum liked the 60’s bands, Rolling Stones, The Kinks etc.

I have bipolar and ADHD. All of my children have ADHD. I don't agree that processed food causes ADHD but I do know first and second hand that eating a clean diet, low in simple carbs and high in fat and veg heavy really helps the symptoms of both of my conditions. Sugar/bread and processed food causes my blood sugar to go all over the place and I get ratty and short fused. So do my kids.

But if I have a full English breakfast with mushrooms and tomatoes ( no bread), a chicken salad for lunch and maybe some soup for my evening meal with curfew and cream through the day then my mid OSS much more stable and I have a clarity that I don't have on toast/ sanidwhiches/ maccies.

Even if he is wrong about ADHD, the point about eating less junk food is well made.

I have read no replies.

Joe Wicks can fuck off.

Have you actually read the article?

Exactly he has no medical education or is a psychiatrist. He has a sports science degree.

That's his credibility out the window

He can't be uneducated or ignorant as he has a degree.
Psychiatrists have a medical education.

I don't really know much about him but the thread title is misleading and the insults on this thread are shocking.