Diet and Behavior
Few years back Dr Ben Feingold, an allergist, began to suggest that some food additives can cause adverse reactions in children. He began to publicise this hypothesis in 1993 and his first paper was published in 1995. Since then there has been an increase in cases of learning disorders in children, including Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and Feingold’s hypothesis is one of several attempts to ascertain the cause.
The reported incidence of all these conditions has increased to the extent that about 20 per cent of the school population are thought to have some degree of learning disorder. The first thing to note is that there is a strong genetic component: the disorders cluster within families. But environmental, particularly dietary, factors also play a part. Many studies have been carried out over the last thirty years to try to confirm or refute Feingold’s hypothesis.
Over the last 20 years an increasing body of work has suggested that an imbalance in fatty acids in the diet is a strong contributory factor.
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