Please update your website.  All research done on the subject in the past 20 years shows that a diet eliminating food additives benefits children with ADHD.  The Uhlig study in 1997 showed EEG differences in children with food-induced ADHD whose symptoms were brought on by what he called provoking foods or additives.  The newest studies have shown that even normal children are measurably affected by a modest amount of food dye.  Their attention goes down, while their activity goes up.

For the record, the Feingold diet does not eliminate sugar.  The paragraph on sugar should not appear in this article.

Moreover, by telling the poor parent to start by eliminating just one item to see what happens, you are sabotaging their efforts.  Additives are eaten together and interact dramatically by interfering with neurite development, according to Lau (2006).  They must also be eliminated together.  The way an elimination diet is done - and indeed these diets have been used to determine allergies for over 100 years -- is to first eliminate all suspected items, and then add them back one at a time.  That is what you learn how to do as a member of the Feingold Association.  While the Feingold diet is not the only elimination diet in use, it is the easiest, the oldest, and the best supported by volunteers who do ongoing product information research to identify those products that are acceptable. 

See more information at the Feingold website at http://www.feingold.org

Shula Edelkind

Research Information Director

Feingold Association of the United States

http://www.feingold.org