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At 10:55 AM 5/4/2002 -0700, you wrote:

>At 07:38 AM 5/4/2002 -0400, you wrote:

>diet!).

>The owner has an autistic kid that is more or less gfcf, but still feeds

>him plenty of sugar, and the other kid now has been diagnosed with ADD of

>some sort so needs special teaching, which is why the school is closing.

Have you heard of the Feindgold Plan for ADD and ADHD? It was developed

about 35 years ago by Dr. Feingold at Kaiser Pemenente Hospital in San

Francisco. He calls for eliminating artificial colors, artificial

preservatives and MSG. Statement from web site. The key here is the

phrase: " Used to eat "

http://www.feingold.org/home.html

The Feingold Program itself is a test to determine if certain foods or food

additives are triggering particular symptoms. It is basically the way

people used to eat before " hyperactivity " became a household word, and

before asthma and chronic ear infections became so very common. Used

originally as a diet for allergies, improvement in behavior and attention

was first noticed as a " side effect. " It is a reasonable first step to take

before (or with) drugs for any of the symptoms listed above.

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At 01:54 PM 5/4/2002 -0700, you wrote:

>Have you heard of the Feindgold Plan for ADD and ADHD? It was developed

>about 35 years ago by Dr. Feingold at Kaiser Pemenente Hospital in San

>Francisco. He calls for eliminating artificial colors, artificial

>preservatives and MSG. Statement from web site. The key here is the

>phrase: " Used to eat "

><http://www.feingold.org/home.html>http://www.feingold.org/home.html

I've heard of it. It was big when I was a young adult, and we were all

testing for allergies like mad. I think it works and I'd use it on my kids

if they had those kinds of issues, which fortunately they don't (maybe

because we don't have much MSG or artificial coloring around here!). But

the lady whose kids these are is VERY well informed and does lots of web

searches and in fact I've learned a thing or two from her. Their reasons

for not persuing dietary issues are not really lack of information.

I didn't realise Dr. Feingold was from Kaiser. That was the group we used

to go to when I lived in California. Being a " take care of everything for

one price " kind of group maybe gives them more impetus to try inexpensive

(read: non drug) therapies!

Heidi Schuppenhauer

Trillium Custom Software Inc.

heidis@...

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