IN RESPONSE TO JOE WICKS SAYING ADHD IS CAUSED BY ULTRA-PROCESSED FOODS.

 

In an interview with BBC Radio 5’s Headliners podcast on Tuesday, Wicks, known as The Body Coach, blamed UPFs for a spike in ADHD cases.

BBC Headliners. 09/04/20024

While appearing on Radio 5 Live’s Headliners podcast to discuss the importance of a healthy diet, the fitness guru said that he felt food caused his undiagnosed ADHD.

The father of three who is expecting a fourth child, explained:

said  ‘I was never diagnosed with ADHD but I think nowadays it’s this common thing that every child seems to be being diagnosed.’

And I think a lot of it can stem back to the diet and the foods that we’re eating. So, when I think about my diet it was cereal for breakfast, concentrated juice from the milkman, Sunny Delight, Wagon Wheels, sandwiches just jam, Nutella, very little nutrients – pure sugar.’

 

Reported in the Daily Mail. 10/04/2024

 

"There is absolutely no evidence that any particular diet, including ultra-processed food, has any causative role in the development of ADHD symptoms and to suggest otherwise is a gross distortion of the facts

It was really disappointing to hear Joe Wicks linking a processed food diet to having ADHD. Joe is a great fitness instructor and helped so many during lockdown for so much good but on this he is abjectly wrong. His core point that a good diet can help people in so many ways is great. But diet good, bad, or ugly won't make you have ADHD or make you not have ADHD. To suggest for ADHD that swapping sweets or burgies for a plate of veggies is all that is needed to "fix" someone with ADHD is both wrong and damaging. It's misleading and undermines the very real difficulty of living with the life-long condition ADHD.

He should retract this statement and apologies as it’s misleading and doesn’t help people children & adults with autism like myself who Have ADHD 

In particular if find this highly offensive to my conditions and I assume so many others will 

Kevin Healey Autism / ADHD campaigner