The research on the amount of salicylate in different foods shows different amounts even in the same food. Why are they the most emphasized suspect natural food chemical? Why can’t salicylate amounts in food be neat like tables of lactose in food? Doctor Feingold, the early researcher who made the connection between salicylates, and additive flavours and colours, tells the story of a patient who had a bad reaction to flea bites. A pharmacologist connected the low molecular weight compound the … [Read more...]
Search Results for: The Feingold Diet
Birds and bees are fussy too!
At talks to the Society for Growing Australian Plant meetings I have listened to speakers talk about animals, birds and insects being attracted to particular plants, even to some plants in one area but not to the same plant in a nearby area. What attracts them? Or, even more interestingly, what caused them to not feed from those they choose not to use. People tend to think of their food from plants as being completely safe. Most plants not eaten are poisonous, or so low in nutritional content … [Read more...]
Additives that cause reactions
Presentation at Eating into the Future Conference Adelaide SA 1999. What are the additives and natural chemicals considered suspect in Australia, UK, USA, and Canadian research? Artificial colours, flavours, preservatives, some added natural colours, as well as naturally occurring salicylates, amines and monosodium glutamate. Many researchers exclude perfumes. Here I want to share some findings about added colours and flavours from over 20 years of practice in this area. The detail is … [Read more...]
Publications and presentations by Joan Breakey 1977 – 2012
1977 Breakey J Study of diet and hyperactivity ICD Post Congress Paediatric Seminar Breakey J Hyperkinesis and its implications for the food industry. AIFST Annual Convention Brisbane Breakey J A manual for the additive free low salicylate diet. Brisbane 1978 Breakey J Dietary management of hyperkinesis and behavioural problems. Aust Family Physician 1978;7:720 4 Breakey J Food and behaviour. Presentation to the Nutrition Society of Australia, Brisbane From 1979 to … [Read more...]
Is food intolerance an inborn error of metabolism?
Presentation at Nutrition Society of Australia, Brisbane, August 2004 * Joan Breakey, Dietitian, 303 Wivenhoe Somerset Rd, Fernvale Qld 4306 Since Feingold hypothesised that chemicals in food caused hyperactivity in 1973 th1s issue has been controversial. Well planned research in the 1980's did show some children reacted but the mechanism is complex. As well as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder [ADHD] symptoms improving, mood and physical allergic symptoms improved on a low suspect … [Read more...]
Evidence base for food sensitivity
There are two important parts to the evidence for the low additives and natural chemicals elimination diet when beginning diet investigation for suspected food intolerance. See the attached articles for detail on this complex issue. Basic research We need to remember that we are dealing with adverse reactions to foods or food chemicals that most people tolerate. So the early research was experimenting with just what to exclude at the same time as doing double-blind placebo-controlled … [Read more...]
Question from Chiara
Question: This site is exciting for me to discover. I recently diagnosed myself with tyramine sensitivity, which I may have had for months or years. My main symptom was moodiness. This was virtually impossible to connect with diet until I started keeping a food diary after a particularly strange and sudden onset. One day I was talking to my husband and became extremely angry, for no reason. It felt like someone had turned a switch in my brain and was flooding it with “mad.” As a scientist, I … [Read more...]