Feingold Diet

This article that claims the feingold diet is difficult and harmful to a child's development is completely false. The diet allows all four food groups and relies on homecooked meals rather than prepackaged preserved foods.
Elimination of harmful chemicals is the goal, and the adding back of any food that does not cause allergic reaction usually happens.

Web4health does not recommend Feingold diet. You are involved in the organization / buisiness of Feingold and do not like our comments. This is up to you. But you should be fair enough to express your background. Anyone is free to try any method to get help. We do not recommend quackery and unprooved methods even if some single parents / children may have a benefit. The negative outcome of untreated adhd is very relevant. Feingold diets are not recommended by the guidelines of the medical or psychological organizations.

Martin Winkler web4health

Well, now, I have never seen this forum before so I hope I am doing this correctly. I am the person who compiles the research for the Feingold Association. I invite you to see http://www.diet-studies.com/adhd.html where you will find about 32 (at last count) double blind studies plus reviews for a total of 71 articles directly or indirectly supporting the use of the Feingold diet -- these are all published in peer reviewed journals linked to their abstracts on MedLine. In 1998 the NIH Consensus Development Conference was presented with a report by Dr. L. Eugene Arnold, under NIH contract to review nonstimulant treatments, and he said that diet was the best of those treatments, supported by eight "adequate double blind studies." (Yes, there are more than 8, but 8 is enough don't you think? Only TWO studies are required for a drug to be considered a "class A" treatment for ADHD.) Most studies show that more than 70% of children benefit from the diet, and only very inadequate studies show anything else. I will be happy to discuss any individual study with you.

This treatment is neither quackery nor is it unproven. Apparently you are either misinformed, or you have some ulterior motive trying to keep parents from using diet therapy. Of course the drug companies would be unhappy to let parents know that diet works as well (often better) than drugs - are they supporting you?

Shula Edelkind
http://www.feingold.org
Feingold Association Research Librarian

Feingold Diet is not recommended by any of the ADHD experts or algorithms of adhd treatment. You try to defend your very own position and you are involved in the Feingold organisation.

Web4health does not have any financial or any other ulterior motives which you try to make the reader believe.

Diets are not recommended in any case because there is a risk for later eating disorders. My only motive is to warn parents because Feingold diet is not a regular treatment. A simple but good motive.