PEDIATRICS Vol. 58 No. 2 August 1976, pp. 145-148
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Food for inefficient thought

Melvin D. Levine M.D.1 and Craig B. Liden M.D.1

1 Medical Outpatient Department, The Children's Hospital, Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02115

The notion that "even an unwholesome diet" may have an impact upon the function of the central nervous system has been a recurring theme in the history of medicine and the study of human behavior. In the current issue of Pediatrics, Conners et al.1 present an important exploration of a comtemporary hypothesis regarding this association. Ultimately, their and other studies on the subject may modify our approach to the inefficient school-age child, or, alternatively, such pursuits may form another unfulfilling flirtation in the on-going romance between behaviorists and food faddists.

THE POPULATION CONSIDERED

In recent years, there has been growing awareness that there exists a population of children whose performance in life is handicapped significantly by intrinsic or constitutional inefficiencies.