Posted on September 11, 2009 in Latest News
4.7% of adults in America suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Feingold diet prevents this disorder. This article tries to understand about the Feingold Diet.
What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder?
- It is a mental disorder common in children around 7 years.
- Children suffering from this disorder have poor attention and get tensed easily.
- As a result, they cannot concentrate in daily life and academic activities.
- 30 to 50% children carry the symptoms of this disorder to their adulthood.
What is Feingold Diet?
- This diet was developed by Dr. Ben F. Feingold, an instructor of pediatrics at the Northwestern University School of Medicine, America, in 1970.
- This diet is based on the believe that children suffer from Hypertension because of additives in their food.
- Controlling hypertension in children thus involves reduction of additives from the child’s diet.
- There are two stages of this diet. The first stage eliminates all of the food items which are offending to the body.
- In the second stage, these food items are reintroduced one at a time to find their relative tolerance by the body.
- The chemicals and additives completely eliminated during this diet are synthetic coloring, artificial flavoring, aspartame and Artificial preservatives.
- Apart from preventing Hypertension, it is also effective in dealing with depression, abusive or unpredictable behavior, speech difficulties, workaholic habits, impatience, difficulty in comprehension, ear problems, asthma, bed wetting, constipation and sleeping disorders in children.
Benefits of this Diet:
- This diet promotes balanced and healthy food items instead of processed foods.
- The American Feingold Association reports that many physical,emotional and psychological problem in children can be prevented by this diet.
- Though this diet is primarily meant for children,it can be taken up by the adults too.
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