Synthetic food colors have been suspected of triggering behavioral problems in children since the 1970s, when pediatric allergist Ben Feingold began treating allergies by putting
children on elimination diets, free of both synthetic food dyes and preservatives.
Not exact matches
Another group of researchers at the University of Southampton found that
children with restrictive
elimination diets had less ADHD symptoms than
children on other types of
diets (12).
A new study assessing the effectiveness of a restricted
elimination diet on the behavior of
children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder was conducted in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Malterre and Segersten are the authors of The Whole Life Nutrition Cookbook and The
Elimination Diet, and are often described as «food whisperers» who speak and write
on the connection between
diet and autism, fertility, and raising healthy
children.
One study found that after four weeks
on an
elimination diet, 98.4 % of the
children in the experiment with non-IgE mediated gastrointestinal food allergies experienced improvement.
One study
on over a hundred
children with confirmed milk and / or egg allergies found that 38 percent still had increased intestinal permeability (based
on a breath test) even while
on strict
elimination diets and no symptoms, which may point to an intrinsic role that it plays in at least some people.
Effects of a restricted
elimination diet on the behaviour of
children with attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder (INCA study): a randomised controlled trial https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673610622271 «Between Nov 4, 2008, and Sept 29, 2009, 100
children were enrolled and randomly assigned to the control group (n = 50) or the
diet group (n = 50).