Comments on: Food Additive Elimination: Becoming Mainstream? http://www.addadhdblog.com/food-additives-adhd/ A blog about Attention Deficit Disorder, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:12:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Colin http://www.addadhdblog.com/food-additives-adhd/comment-page-1/#comment-590787 Colin Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:11:48 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/food-additives-adhd/#comment-590787 It's actually a nice helpful bit of details. I am glad that you shared this useful details around. Make sure you keep informed similar to this. Many thanks sharing. It’s actually a nice helpful bit of details. I am glad that you shared this useful details around. Make sure you keep informed similar to this. Many thanks sharing.

]]> By: biotin side effects http://www.addadhdblog.com/food-additives-adhd/comment-page-1/#comment-474072 biotin side effects Thu, 07 Jul 2011 06:39:47 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/food-additives-adhd/#comment-474072 aspartame has some nasty side effects too plus its long term effects on health is still not known..                  aspartame has some nasty side effects too plus its long term effects on health is still not known..                 

]]> By: Faith Simmons http://www.addadhdblog.com/food-additives-adhd/comment-page-1/#comment-227837 Faith Simmons Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:23:22 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/food-additives-adhd/#comment-227837 i thought aspartame can cause cancer in laboratory animals - i thought aspartame can cause cancer in laboratory animals -

]]> By: Francine http://www.addadhdblog.com/food-additives-adhd/comment-page-1/#comment-220235 Francine Sat, 10 Jul 2010 23:11:01 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/food-additives-adhd/#comment-220235 So regarding Nicolas's comments above, would the best approach to food be to eat foods in their most natural form, do not eat processed anything and go organic? It sounds like a good approach if you ask me because then you are bypassing (or hopefully you are) all the ugly stuff that gets put in your food and that can only be better for you. My adopted son has ADHD and I'm now noticing a lot of ugly behaviors in my other two bio children as well. I've decided that it's a combination of our environment, our food, and my parenting style. I'm going to eliminate all dyes and buy organic starting tomorrow and then after I get that under control I'll work on organic household products and see if it makes a difference in my children's behavior and our quality of life. There is too much sickness and obesity around us and I want to change that for my kids. Thanks for this great info! So regarding Nicolas’s comments above, would the best approach to food be to eat foods in their most natural form, do not eat processed anything and go organic? It sounds like a good approach if you ask me because then you are bypassing (or hopefully you are) all the ugly stuff that gets put in your food and that can only be better for you.

My adopted son has ADHD and I’m now noticing a lot of ugly behaviors in my other two bio children as well. I’ve decided that it’s a combination of our environment, our food, and my parenting style. I’m going to eliminate all dyes and buy organic starting tomorrow and then after I get that under control I’ll work on organic household products and see if it makes a difference in my children’s behavior and our quality of life. There is too much sickness and obesity around us and I want to change that for my kids.

Thanks for this great info!

]]> By: Nicolas http://www.addadhdblog.com/food-additives-adhd/comment-page-1/#comment-150886 Nicolas Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:00:39 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/food-additives-adhd/#comment-150886 I think Dr. Kenny is right on the money with this one. The Feingold Diet took off in the 1970's, but seemed to die out in the early/mid 80's, but the pendulum definitely does seem to be swinging back towards food additive elimination in diets. I know it has been tried by several kids at the school where I work (which has a high percentage of children diagnosed with ADHD). I think that one of the toughest parts to getting good quality studies is the fact that there are just so many chemicals and compounds out there, that systematically eliminating them one-by-one is next to impossible. In general, it seems like most people assimilate "Feingold" or "elimination" diets just with the removal of food colorings, when in reality, food colors make up only a tiny percentage of the compounds Dr. Feingold and his supporters warned us about. Further complicating the issue is the fact that some of these compounds may work in combination, or boost the harmful effects of each other. A relatively recent study by Lau and coworkers (you can get the article by copying and pasting the following link into your browser: http://toxsci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/90/1/178)studied combinations and found that a specific Blue Dye interacted with glutamic acid (which is the acid form of the compound MSG), and a yellow dye interacted with aspartame (Nutrasweet) to boost the harmful effects of each other. I think it's going to take awhile to sort all of this out! I think Dr. Kenny is right on the money with this one. The Feingold Diet took off in the 1970′s, but seemed to die out in the early/mid 80′s, but the pendulum definitely does seem to be swinging back towards food additive elimination in diets. I know it has been tried by several kids at the school where I work (which has a high percentage of children diagnosed with ADHD).

I think that one of the toughest parts to getting good quality studies is the fact that there are just so many chemicals and compounds out there, that systematically eliminating them one-by-one is next to impossible. In general, it seems like most people assimilate “Feingold” or “elimination” diets just with the removal of food colorings, when in reality, food colors make up only a tiny percentage of the compounds Dr. Feingold and his supporters warned us about.

Further complicating the issue is the fact that some of these compounds may work in combination, or boost the harmful effects of each other. A relatively recent study by Lau and coworkers (you can get the article by copying and pasting the following link into your browser: http://toxsci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/90/1/178)studied combinations and found that a specific Blue Dye interacted with glutamic acid (which is the acid form of the compound MSG), and a yellow dye interacted with aspartame (Nutrasweet) to boost the harmful effects of each other.

I think it’s going to take awhile to sort all of this out!

]]> By: 7 Steps To Succeed With ADHD – Seminar | ADHD NEWSTODAY http://www.addadhdblog.com/food-additives-adhd/comment-page-1/#comment-105456 7 Steps To Succeed With ADHD – Seminar | ADHD NEWSTODAY Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:32:22 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/food-additives-adhd/#comment-105456 [...] Food Additive Elimination: Becoming Mainstream? [...] [...] Food Additive Elimination: Becoming Mainstream? [...]

]]> By: Organic Food http://www.addadhdblog.com/food-additives-adhd/comment-page-1/#comment-74169 Organic Food Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:46:53 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/food-additives-adhd/#comment-74169 Dr Kenny As a brother of someone with ADD and an advocate of organic food as a mainstream choice, I helped my brother change his whole food choices to, almost, totally organic produce. He has seen a marked increase in his ability to focus and feels he is more in control when it comes to matters of concentration. If this is due to the improvement in his diet or the fact that organic foods by their nature will not contain preservatives and additives we don't know. Thanks for the great information. Dave Dr Kenny

As a brother of someone with ADD and an advocate of organic food as a mainstream choice, I helped my brother change his whole food choices to, almost, totally organic produce. He has seen a marked increase in his ability to focus and feels he is more in control when it comes to matters of concentration.

If this is due to the improvement in his diet or the fact that organic foods by their nature will not contain preservatives and additives we don’t know.

Thanks for the great information.

Dave

]]> By: Jane Hersey http://www.addadhdblog.com/food-additives-adhd/comment-page-1/#comment-60928 Jane Hersey Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:17:09 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/food-additives-adhd/#comment-60928 Thank you for sharing this important information with your readers. For the past 32 years parent volunteers have helped families determine if certain foods/additives are playing a part in their child's behavior or learning problems. We have also worked to alert the public to the link between synthetic food additives and what is now being called ADHD. (See www.ADHDdiet.org) While our primary focus is on petroleum-based food additives, our literature frequently discusses the many other factors that can lead to these symptoms. Other possible causes we have written about include: emotional stress, exposure to heavy metals like lead, vision deficits, sensory integration dysfunction, vitamin/mineral deficiencies, food or envirnomental allergies, environmental pollutants, sleep deprivation, side effects of medicine, prenatal exposure to toxins, fatty acid deficiency. We have found that one of the simple things a parent can do is to make changes in their grocery shopping, to select those brands of cereal, beverage, snacks, desserts, etc. which do not contain the worst of the additives. We show them how to accomplish this. And, as the Southampton University researchers found, when people remove petrochemicals from their diet, they usually feel better and may behave better. In addition to the new study, there is a great deal of information on the previous studies that show the link between diet, behavior and learning at www.diet-studies.com. Jane Hersey, Director Feingold Association of the US Thank you for sharing this important information with your readers. For the past 32 years parent volunteers have helped families determine if certain foods/additives are playing a part in their child’s behavior or learning problems. We have also worked to alert the public to the link between synthetic food additives and what is now being called ADHD. (See http://www.ADHDdiet.org)
While our primary focus is on petroleum-based food additives, our literature frequently discusses the many other factors that can lead to these symptoms. Other possible causes we have written about include: emotional stress, exposure to heavy metals like lead, vision deficits, sensory integration dysfunction, vitamin/mineral deficiencies, food or envirnomental allergies, environmental pollutants, sleep deprivation, side effects of medicine, prenatal exposure to toxins, fatty acid deficiency.
We have found that one of the simple things a parent can do is to make changes in their grocery shopping, to select those brands of cereal, beverage, snacks, desserts, etc. which do not contain the worst of the additives. We show them how to accomplish this. And, as the Southampton University researchers found, when people remove petrochemicals from their diet, they usually feel better and may behave better.
In addition to the new study, there is a great deal of information on the previous studies that show the link between diet, behavior and learning at http://www.diet-studies.com.

Jane Hersey, Director
Feingold Association of the US

]]> By: Jane Hersey http://www.addadhdblog.com/food-additives-adhd/comment-page-1/#comment-60929 Jane Hersey Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:17:09 +0000 http://www.addadhdblog.com/food-additives-adhd/#comment-60929 Thank you for sharing this important information with your readers. For the past 32 years parent volunteers have helped families determine if certain foods/additives are playing a part in their child's behavior or learning problems. We have also worked to alert the public to the link between synthetic food additives and what is now being called ADHD. (See www.ADHDdiet.org) While our primary focus is on petroleum-based food additives, our literature frequently discusses the many other factors that can lead to these symptoms. Other possible causes we have written about include: emotional stress, exposure to heavy metals like lead, vision deficits, sensory integration dysfunction, vitamin/mineral deficiencies, food or envirnomental allergies, environmental pollutants, sleep deprivation, side effects of medicine, prenatal exposure to toxins, fatty acid deficiency. We have found that one of the simple things a parent can do is to make changes in their grocery shopping, to select those brands of cereal, beverage, snacks, desserts, etc. which do not contain the worst of the additives. We show them how to accomplish this. And, as the Southampton University researchers found, when people remove petrochemicals from their diet, they usually feel better and may behave better. In addition to the new study, there is a great deal of information on the previous studies that show the link between diet, behavior and learning at www.diet-studies.com. Jane Hersey, Director Feingold Association of the US Thank you for sharing this important information with your readers. For the past 32 years parent volunteers have helped families determine if certain foods/additives are playing a part in their child’s behavior or learning problems. We have also worked to alert the public to the link between synthetic food additives and what is now being called ADHD. (See http://www.ADHDdiet.org)
While our primary focus is on petroleum-based food additives, our literature frequently discusses the many other factors that can lead to these symptoms. Other possible causes we have written about include: emotional stress, exposure to heavy metals like lead, vision deficits, sensory integration dysfunction, vitamin/mineral deficiencies, food or envirnomental allergies, environmental pollutants, sleep deprivation, side effects of medicine, prenatal exposure to toxins, fatty acid deficiency.
We have found that one of the simple things a parent can do is to make changes in their grocery shopping, to select those brands of cereal, beverage, snacks, desserts, etc. which do not contain the worst of the additives. We show them how to accomplish this. And, as the Southampton University researchers found, when people remove petrochemicals from their diet, they usually feel better and may behave better.
In addition to the new study, there is a great deal of information on the previous studies that show the link between diet, behavior and learning at http://www.diet-studies.com.

Jane Hersey, Director
Feingold Association of the US

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