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What's your chosen diet as someone with ADHD/Autism (beehaw.org)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/neurodivergence@beehaw.org
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I've tried a lot of diets, and I have a lot of trouble committing and maintaining structure. I eat out every day. I don't exercise much. I'm having trouble with willpower fasting. Still I think the most "ADHD friendly" way of dieting is likely fasting. It requires little practical restructuring of ones life, just commitment and willpower. Do you all have anything better? Any advice?

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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

from what I understand, protein in the average American diet is overloaded. https://www.health.harvard.edu/nutrition/when-it-comes-to-protein-how-much-is-too-much

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's almost impossible to consume unhealthy amounts of protein - you have to be supplementing protein pretty excessively or eating exclusively meat to get to the point that it's damaging to you. Most Americans do not follow dietary recommendations or even hit the .8g/kg per day. From an ethical perspective, it can be good to reduce animal-based proteins, but the idea that Americans are eating too much protein is absurd and not based in fact. 1 2

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Your links don't say that excess protein in take doesn't have an effect on people. Just that most people don't get enough and getting enough is important. Also I literally linked my proof Which is baked my Harvard. This isn't my opinion it's fact that I've cited. If you want to call it absurd, email Harvard.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    If you are curious on a proper source examining ideal protein intake, this link should give you plenty of reading.

    Unfortunately there are a lot of incentives for various organizations and companies to put out literature in support of what makes them profit, not to mention many researchers who enter the field with a significant bias, conducting poorly controlled studies to provide evidence towards their biased opinion. Any summary articles on the internet, including ones from prestigious universities, should not be taken at face value when they do not cite their sources. Even when they do cite their sources, there's endless conflicting evidence out there because there are so many biased studies conducted by companies attempting to push their product (dairy industry is a good example of this), endless poorly controlled studies, endless studies based in science twenty years old and not accounting for more a more modern view of human health/biology and endless studies with other problems. A thorough review of the cited literature is often necessary to parse whether the source is tainted.

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