According to a recent pilot study published by the Nutrition Journal on their website, there is now significant evidence that children who are affected by ADHD enjoy great benefits from daily supplementation of high levels of purified fish oil.
This finding merely confirms that diet can play a significant role in helping the young ADHD (and ADD) sufferer, and that, conversely, someone who has a poor diet will suffer what might be termed attention deficit diet disorder.
Attention deficit diet disorder is a phrase that is now applied to those children whose diet is not helping to alleviate their ADHD or ADD and the behavioral patterns that are usually associated with such conditions.
In other words, and in plain English, attention deficit diet disorder is as much about the child's diet being disordered as it is about their medical condition being a 'disorder'.
If such children are consuming a diet that is not helping them to handle and deal with their ADHD, then they can be said to be suffering both ADHD and attention deficit diet disorder.
And, of course, the answer to the problem of attention deficit diet disorder is remarkably simple, at least in theory.
Adjust the child's diet to include those nutrients that are known to improve their behavior and that is the problem dealt with.
In practice, however, there are several difficulties with this simplistic approach to the child's attention deficit diet disorder.
For example, referring back to the Nutrition Journal report, it has been shown in previous studies that ADHD children often have high levels of certain fatty acids in the blood.
The Nutrition Journal report showed that reducing these levels of fatty acids in the ADHD children's blood generated significant improvements in their behavior, when compared to the 'control group' (non-ADHD) children.
The problem, of course, is that the family of a child whose ADHD condition is being exacerbated or amplified by a poor diet may not be able to afford to spend money on expensive diet supplements or indeed, on special diets.
The fact may well be that the reason that the child has an attention deficit diet disorder in the first place, that is, a poor diet, is a direct result of a lack of money in the family household.
Then there will be the question of education, or rather, the re-education of the family of such an ADHD affected child.
They will have to be shown and then comprehensively convinced that only a change of their child's eating patterns can rid the child of attention deficit diet disorder.
That may be no easy task to achieve, unfortunately.
So, attention deficit diet disorder does exist and it can be dealt with.
Furthermore, it is not necessarily difficult to deal with either.
Make some (perhaps fairly) significant change in the ASHD child's diet and, hey presto, their attention deficit diet disorder begins to subside.
Answering the core question of whether people can and will do this, however, is another matter entirely!