An Alternative History of Hyperactivity : : Food Additives and the Feingold Diet / / Matthew Smith.
In 1973, San Francisco allergist Ben Feingold created an uproar by claiming that synthetic food additives triggered hyperactivity, then the most commonly diagnosed childhood disorder in the United States. He contended that the epidemic should not be treated with drugs such as Ritalin but, instead, w...
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Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1. Food for Thought
- Chapter 2. Why Your Child Is Hyperactive
- Chapter 3. Feingold Goes Public
- Chapter 4. The Problem with Hyperactivity
- Chapter 5. "Food Just Isn't What It Used to Be"
- Chapter 6. The Feingold Diet in the Media
- Chapter 7. Testing the Feingold Diet
- Chapter 8. Feingold Families
- Chapter 9. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author