With the rise in a poor diet and the declining value of food, it is not surprising that a 2011 report stated that 90 percent of Americans are nutrient deficient.  The body requires nutrients to function properly and produce neurotransmitters, chemicals the body uses to regulate itself.  Neurotransmitters are commonly used to regulate things such as moodiness, impulsiveness, and concentration.  People with ADHD typically have lower levels of these neurotransmitters:

Dopamine- Changes in dopamine levels tends to correlate with hyperactivity and impulsiveness

Norepinephrine- Changes in norepinephrine levels tends to correlate with inattention.   

Serotonin- Changes in serotonin tends to correlate with poor impulse control and high levels of aggression 

Dopamine and norepinephrine are primarily associated with the reward processing area of the brain and serotonin associates itself with emotional regulations.  The creation of neurotransmitters requires a wide variety of vitamins and nutrients.  It is important to receive a wide array of nutrients because they work together, synergistically, to form these neurotransmitters.  With the declining value of food, it is unreasonable to expect to receive a sufficient amount of the vitamins your body needs to create these neurotransmitters. 

With only 20% of the vitamins in pill form absorbing into your body, the only reasonable way I have found (aside from a strictly organic diet) is to receive an adequate amount of nutrients is through liquid multivitamins.  The best energy drinks, in my opinion, come from Biometics.  I have not seen a process as effective as the biocellular micellization process in terms of liquid nutrition.  As of right now, there are currently no other multivitamins I have found that can compare to the speed or absorption rate found with Biometics products. 

In addition to the value of food declining, it is also important to fight back against the additives in processed foods.  The Feingold diet, developed in 1970, focuses on reducing the consumption of foods that exaggerate ADHD symptoms.  The Fiengold diet accomplishes this through the removal of harmful additives.  The primary steps to successfully completing the Finegold diet is to avoid the following foods:

• Artificial coloring- Artificial coloring is the stuff that makes fruit punch red or gelatin green.  It is made from petroleum.  You can identify artificial coloring by looking at the ingredients label for things such as yellow 5, red 40, and blue 1.  If the label says, FD&C in the product like D&C Red 33, it means that the coloring is considered safe for medicine and cosmetics but not for food.  See more about colorings.
• Artificial flavoring- Artificial flavoring can consist of many different chemicals and there is no restriction as to what a company can use to flavor its products. 
• Aspartame- Aspartame is an artificial sweetener that is 200 times sweeter than sugar found in soda and sugar free foods for over 25 years.
• Artificial preservatives- The three major preservatives found in food are BHA (Butylated hydroxyanisole), BHT (Butylated hydroxytoluene), and TBQH (Tertiary-butyl hydroquinone).  These are the three major preservatives found in food.  They are listed as antioxidants but they are because they prevent the fats in foods from oxidizing or spoiling, but unlike natural antioxidants these have many negative side effects.