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An Alternative History of Hyperactivity: Food Additives and the Feingold Diet
Matthew Smith
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Description for An Alternative History of Hyperactivity: Food Additives and the Feingold Diet
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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, with a food additive-free diet. Parents and the media considered his treatment, the Feingold diet, a compelling alternative. Physicians, however, were skeptical and designed dozens of trials to challenge the idea. The resulting medical opinion was that the diet did not work and it was rejected.
Matthew Smith asserts that those scientific conclusions ... Read more
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, with a food additive-free diet. Parents and the media considered his treatment, the Feingold diet, a compelling alternative. Physicians, however, were skeptical and designed dozens of trials to challenge the idea. The resulting medical opinion was that the diet did not work and it was rejected.
Matthew Smith asserts that those scientific conclusions ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813550169
SKU
V9780813550169
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About Matthew Smith
MATTHEW SMITH is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. He received the American Association for the History of Medicine's Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Award in 2010.
Reviews for An Alternative History of Hyperactivity: Food Additives and the Feingold Diet
"This exciting book makes a significant contribution to the history of hyperactivity by investigating the Feingold diet from many different vantage points and examining the historical context in which this treatment was situated."
Cynthia Connolly
author of Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life
"An Alternative History of Hyperactivity provides a novel dissection of a ... Read more
Cynthia Connolly
author of Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life
"An Alternative History of Hyperactivity provides a novel dissection of a ... Read more