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Neurofeedback in an Integrative Medical Practice
Published in Hanno W. Kirk, Restoring the Brain, 2020
There may be indications for special diets based on dietary history, specialized testing, and observation. These may include: Feingold diet,22 Elimination/reintroduction diet,23 Gluten-free/Casein-free diet,24 Specific Carbohydrate Diet,25 and GAPS diet.26 Since patients may already utilize specific diet plans, clinicians should familiarize themselves with the basic guidelines of these diets even if they are not comfortable prescribing and helping patients adopt them.
Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder
Published in Merlin G. Butler, F. John Meaney, Genetics of Developmental Disabilities, 2019
Mark L. Wolraich, Melissa A. Doffing
There are several options of treatments that have been recommended for patients with ADHD, such as broad groups of diets, dietary supplements, alternative medications, exercises, and biofeedback. The three main diets recommended have been the Feingold diet, the oligoantigenic or elimination diet, and a restricted sugar diet. The Feingold diet was proposed by an allergist, Ben Feingold, Ph.D., who suggested that some children with ADHD have allergic-type reaction to certain dietary elements (additives, preservatives, food dyes, and salicylate compounds) (52). Although his clinical impression was that a number of children with hyperactivity had this problem, subsequent blinded studies found very few children responded adversely when challenged with dyes or additives (around 1% of the children studied) (53). Additionally, strict adherence to this diet can provide inadequate vitamin C. Current recommendations have dropped the natural salicylate restrictions so that the low vitamin C should no longer be a problem.
The use of diet interventions to treat symptoms of ADHD in children and adolescents – a systematic review of randomized controlled trials
Published in Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 2020
Nanna Maria Uldall Torp, Per Hove Thomsen
In the seventies Ben F. Feingold proposed that the Feingold diet (FD), also called the Kaiser Permanente diet [4], eliminating salicylates and artificial food colourings (AFC) and flavourings, could improve behaviour and learning in children with hyperkinetic behaviour and learning disabilities [5]. Since then, other diets consisting of elimination of different foods have been suggested, based on the theory that some children are more sensitive to certain foods and that this sensitivity could cause ADHD symptoms [6]. This has led to the development of a restricted diet, called the oligoantigenic diet (OAD), consisting of few food items to avoid items that are believed to cause symptoms [7,8]. Though different, these diets are all eliminating food items and can therefore be referred to as a collected group of elimination diets.