Conditions: ADD ADHD
Keywords: ADD ADHD Proteins Dietary Nutrition QEEG ERP ICA
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 64
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
Multicenter, Prospective, randomized, comparative and controlled study about the beneficial effects in behavior and brain connectivity of different dietary patterns in 100 children with ADHD between 7 and 12 years, followed up for 3 months of nutritional therapy.

Detailed description:
The investigators collect electroencephalogram (EEG), event related potentials (ERP) data, and behavior parameters in ADD/ADHD children that not take stimulants or other drugs during study. They would only follow some nutritional recommendations based on increasing the amount of dietary protein and fast carbohydrates decrease. The duration of the study will be 6 months, 3 months for recruitment and 3 months for dietary treatment.

Arms:
arm 1: This group of patients receive 2.000 kilocalories diet(60 g. carbohydrates, 144 gr of fat and 107 gr of proteins), including 2 protein shakes. arm 2: the second group of patients receive diet of 2.000 Kilo calories without rapidly absorbed carbohydrates and without proteins supplements

Interventions: intervention 1: BP22042013 intervention 2: Low carbohydrate diet
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: This group of patients receive 2.000 kilo-calories diet (60 g. carbohydrates, 144 gr of fat and 107 gr of proteins), including 2 protein shakes. intervention 2: the second group of patients receive diet of 2.000 Kilo-calories without rapidly absorbed carbohydrates and without proteins supplements

Protocol document: