Do bitters taste anything like fernet? They sound like they should.

Nope! They're flavor extracts. I have cardamom and chocolate bitters, and LOVE them.

Regular bitters do though. I love bitters and soda when I'm really thirsty. Plain old Angostura.

I had to switch to almond milk from soy milk.

I was shocked when I was looking at almond milk in the market and saw how little protein it has. I thought a milk made from nuts would have a ton of protein.

There are very few studies on food and ADHD that rise above the level of anecdata. There are some studies that indicate that a diet low in fat and high in whole grains, fruit and vegetables may help, but most studies are iffy because there's no definitive ADHD diagnosis and the studies rely on self-reporting. Increasing Omega-3s may help. There are some indications that specific foods make specific individuals worse, and that possibly some kind of allergic reaction is involved. From what I've read, dairy gets cited mainly because it's a relatively common allergy. No reputable study I've seen has shown that sugar per se is the culprit, despite the popular belief that kids get wound up on sugar.

I was shocked when I was looking at almond milk in the market and saw how little protein it has. I thought a milk made from nuts would have a ton of protein.

In order to get it into milk form, they have to add so much water that very little of anything from the almonds is there in big amounts.

I thought a milk made from nuts would have a ton of protein.

Yeah, it seems like it would, but that makes sense, Hil.

I definitely do end up leaning paleoish in my diet, but you know, not in the over the edge way I see out there in the wild (ha, see what I did there?) sometimes.

Steph about the dairy - there's a theory out there that ADD is caused, in part, but a allergy/sensitive to Casein and that the symptoms of ADD are actually reactions to the casein. Another claim is that hormones and antibiotics injected into the cows is in the milk and meat and that's a cause or factor in the problems.

Another claim is that hormones and antibiotics injected into the cows is in the milk and meat and that's a cause or factor in the problems.

In which case, it might be worth trying to switch to organic for a while and see if it helps.

Increasing Omega-3s may help.

It's helped him in the sense that it kind of smooths out the edges when his Ritalin dose has worn off -- he isn't *as* scattered or unable to focus.

They certainly haven't cured him (nor did he expect them to). They just help.

There are a number of problems with the idea of eating like our primitive ancestors did. One, we don't really know much about what our primitive ancestors ate. Two, if we ate like known hunter-gatherers, we'd have to eat road kill and bugs. Three, evolution is not necessarily an eons-long proposition. The gene that lets adults digest lactase developed in the last 20,000 years. There's evidence that learning to cook meat and grains was one factor in humans' growing brain size, because it increased the amount of food value.

Wasn't it shown that a lot of food is simply indigestible if it's not cooked?