PEDIATRICS Vol. 61 No. 6 June 1978, pp. 818-828
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Hyperkinesis and Food Additives: Testing the Feingold Hypothesis

J. Preston Harley Ph.D.1, Roberta S. Ray Ph.D.1, Lawrence Tomasi M.D., Ph.D.,1, Peter L. Eichman M.D.1, Charles G. Matthews Ph.D.1, Raymond Chun M.D.1, Charles S. Cleeland Ph.D.1, and Edwin Traisman 1

1 Departments of Food Microbiology and Toxicology, Neurology, Pediatrics, and Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Division of Pediatric Neurology, Northwestern University, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago

Teacher ratings, objective classroom and laboratory observational data, attention-concentration, and other psychological measures obtained on 36 school-age, hyperactive boys under experimental and control diet conditions yielded no support for the Feingold hypothesis. Parental ratings revealed positive behavioral changes for the experimental diet; however, they seemed primarily attributable to one diet sequence. Parents' behavioral ratings on ten hyperactive, preschool boys indicated a positive response to the experimental diet; again, laboratory observations showed no diet effect.

Submitted on November 22, 1977
Accepted on January 9, 1978




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