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Based on results of this ADHD natural treatment study, researchers recommend that children with ADHD spend quality after-school hours and weekend time outdoors enjoying nature.

Study authors Frances E. Kuo and Andrea Faber Taylor suggested that daily doses of ''green time'' might supplement medications and behavioral approaches to ADHD if clinical trials and additional research confirm value of nature as a natural treatment for ADHD.

The study findings indicate that exposure to ordinary natural settings in course of common after-school and weekend activities may be widely effective in reducing attention deficit symptoms in children.

In each comparison (there were 56 in all), green outdoor activities received more positive ratings over activities taking place in other settings. In 54 of 56, difference was significant, signaling that findings were consistent.

Researchers said that exposing ADHD children to nature is an affordable, healthy method of controlling symptoms. Researchers also suggested that daily doses of "green time" can supplement medications and other traditional treatments of ADHD.

Simply using nature may offer a way to help manage ADHD symptoms that is readily available, doesn't have any stigma associated with it, doesn't cost anything, and doesn't have any side effects.

ADHD natural “green” treatment has endless possibilities, many of which might closely resemble childhoods from years long past.

Here are just a few ideas for increasing "green time": _ Play in a green yard or ball field at recess and after school. _ Take after-dinner walks. _ Make a scarecrow. _ Doing class work or homework outside or at a window with a relatively green view. _ Build a birdhouse. _ Grow an outdoor garden. _ Bike, ski, sled, inline skate... _ Visit a nature center. _ Choose a greener route for walk to school. _ Participate in local nature clean-ups. _ Take up bird watching. _ Star gaze.