Feingold diet

Conflicting results, however, made it difficult to determine whether a Feingold diet is beneficial, despite a number of studies that have been conducted that have led to the view that food dyes did impair performance of h)rperactive children [54], or did not in a controlled study [56], or that it did and that a one-week experimental diet could be used to detect a "sub-group of children hyperactive from specific food dyes[57]."... 

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These metals are all hydrophiles and though their allowable quantities are low, they may nevertheless form neurotoxic mixtures with lipophilic species from other dietary items and have toxic impact. No studies have yet been carried out on the allowable levels of these heavy metals in dietary mixtures containing colors, flavors, and preservatives. A search of the literature did not reveal other studies related to the Feingold diet that analyzed for or considered the effects of lead, arsenic, and mercury. 

Adams W Lack of behavioral effects from Feingold diet violations. Percept Mot Skills 52 307-313,1981... 

Brenner A A study of the efficacy of the Feingold diet on hyperkinetic children. Clin Pediatr 16 652-656,1977... 

Chernick E Effects of the Feingold diet on reading achievement and classroom behavior. Reading Teacher 34 171-174,1980... 

Holborow P, Elkins J, Berry P The effect of the Feingold diet on normal school children. J Learn Disabil 14 143-147, 1981... 

The notion that colors, flavors, and other common food additives could adversely affect children s behavior was widely publicized in the 1970s. According to Feingold (1974), 40-70% of children who exhibited impulsive behavior, learning disabilities, short attention spans, and other symptoms characteristic of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD (formerly called hyperkinesis, hyperactivity, or minimal brain dysfunction) showed dramatic improvement when placed on diets without food dyes and other common additives. 

Because this hypothesis generated considerable anxiety and had broad pubhc health implications, the Nutrition Foundation (formerly affiliated with the International Life Sciences Institute but now defunct) convened a committee to evaluate the scientific evidence relative to the Feingold hypothesis, and if warranted, provide guidelines for further research. The committee, known as the National Advisory Committee on Hyperkinesis and Food Additives (1975), found no conclusive link between diet and behavior, but could not rule out a possible association since no studies appropriate for testing the hypothesis had been carried out. Based on the committee s recommendations, several doubleblind crossover studies were subsequently conducted, but these produced... 

In the 1970s, Feingold proposed that food additives, especially colors and flavors, caused hyperactivity and other childhood behavior disorders. He further claimed that instituting a special diet lacking these substances would treat the conditions (Feingold 1974, 1975a, 1975b, 1976, 1978, 1982). 

David TJ Reactions to dietary tartrazine. Arch Dis Child 62 119-122, 1987 Egger], Graham P], Carter CM, et al Controlled trial of oligoantigenic treatment in the hyperkinetic syndrome. Lancet 1 540-545,1985 Eich WF, Thim EB, Crowder JE Effect of the Feingold Kaiser Permanente diet in minimal brain dysfunction. Journal of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama 49 16-20, 1979... 

Staprans, I., Hardman, D.A., Pan, X.M., and Feingold, K.R. (1999) Effect of Oxidized Lipids in the Diet on Oxidized Lipid Levels in Postprandial Serum Chylomicrons of Diabetic Patients, Diabetes Care 22,300-306. 

Staprans, L, J.H. Rapp, X.M. Pan, and K.R. Feingold. 1993. The effect of oxidized lipids in the diet on serum lipoprotein peroxides in control and diabetic rats. 

Since its introduction in 1973, numerous professionals have tested, evaluated and/or studied the Feingold or K-P Diet, with the doubters outnumbering the believers. Nevertheless, Dr. Feingold s hypothesis has stimulated awareness and research of the problem. 

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