Dr Feingold’s ideas caused much heated controversy in the medical and wider community, but particularly in the food industry. The controversy raged with Feingold saying that artificial additives were toxic, but the medical profession, the population in general, and the food industry strongly disagreeing, and the media covering various points of view. The public were not happy as the diet was seen as depriving children of the joy of treats and food on special occasions, even though there was also … [Read more...]
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The Feingold Diet – a 2021 update
If you look on the internet you will see that the kids whose behaviour and hyperactivity improve on the Feingold diet are those where there is some connection with their genes. This is great news as it recognises that the diet does work for some kids, and that where improvement happens it is connected to some factor in their family. In 2010, an FDA panel released a report based on many studies of the Feingold diet. The report found that artificial food colours, flavours, or preservatives … [Read more...]
What’s become of the Feingold diet?
Transcript from Ockham's Razor broadcast Sunday 11 November 2001 with Robyn Williams Summary: Dietitian Joan Breakey talks about developments since Dr. Ben Feingold, in 1973, first linked diet and hyperactivity. Transcript: Robyn Williams: One of the biggest controversies of the 1970s was about hyperactivity in children, their diet and the advice of American scientist Dr Ben Feingold. So whatever happened to the Feingold diet? In Brisbane, Joan Breakey tells the tale. Joan … [Read more...]
My Food Sensitive Life 1975,Diet changed my life
My life changed when I was 29 and I trialled a new diet. The diet was developed by Dr Ben Feingold and presented in his 1974 book: Why Your Child is Hyperactive. He said that hyperactive symptoms in children were caused by artificial additives, aspirin and many foods containing salicylate. While the book wasn’t available yet in Australia, I was given a diet summary chart (only ten centimetres square) by a psychologist who found it in a medical journal. He asked me to help implement the diet … [Read more...]
My Food Sensitive Life 1964 Age 18 Dip. Dietetics
How do we know the diet is right now?
I first heard of the low salicylate diet as the Feingold Diet in 1975. It was summarised in a journal piece about 10cm by 10 cm! Feingold had used the low salicylate diet that was used by Dermatologists for urticaria rashes. Do contact me if you are interested in all the early research articles which I carefully collected and would love all that information to be held by someone who is particularly interested in how the thinking changed over time. I would be happy to provide it to someone whose … [Read more...]
The Diet Detective Method
The Diet Detective Method is most suited to diet investigation where an initial elimination diet is not known so a best-fit or suggested diet is used. The Method is used for a trial time, usually four weeks, and any changes in symptoms noted. Then detective work continues assessing the outcome when various foods are reintroduced—which we call ‘challenges’. The diet detective method is clearer now but it has been developing over the last forty years. Not everyone reacts to the suspect food … [Read more...]