Imagine... Did you know that Food Additives cause Hyperactivity?

In 1973, around 30 years ago, Benjamin Feingold M.D. went to the American Medical Association and presented to them his extensive research about the fact that food additives are at the origin of some behavior and learning disorders.

His research included more than 3,000 different food additives and was based on more than 1,200 cases. He was completely ridiculed and studies where done just to disprove his statements. Nowadays it has been proven that about 50% of those who use the Feingold diet have a significant decrease in symptoms of hyperactivity.

The term “Food Additives” in the United States of America covers more than 5,000 added chemicals to food products such as for thickening, preserving, emulsifying, flavoring, coloring, bleaching, anti-caking,...

Amazingly the researchers who ridiculed his statements only focused on 10 food dyes while Feingold considered more than 3,000.

Even if they attempted to disprove Feingold`s hypothesis, it has been clearly proven that food additives play a major role in the hyperactivity of children.

Since it has been known that most of the studies against Feingold`s Hypothesis are invalid as cause of the inadequate guidelines they used, the United Stated Institutes of Health Consensus Conference on Defined Diets and Childhood Hyperactivity reopened the doors of reconsideration for the veracity of Feingold`s Diet.

An example is C. Keith Connors, the most hard refuter of Feingold`s Hypothesis and author of "Food Additives and Hyperactive Children”.

Rippere and Schauss are those who criticized Connors by making some studies upon the link between Hyperactivity in Children and Food Additives.

Connors used to use non appropriate control substances as the placebo in his studies on reactions to food in hyperkinetics such as chocolate chip cookies. In further studies on chocolate they've noticed that sometimes it produced 59% of reaction and other times 33%.

The FDA data was way over the doses mentioned in an average daily basis in Connors studies. A daily dose of 150mg of mixed food dyes is the average of most children between 5 and 12. Connors didn't even use the real amount of intake by children as he used a dose of 26mg a day in his studies.

Now the main reason why Feingold`s Hypothesis was rejected is that if Feingold`s Hypothesis comes worldly known and accepted, their will exist a real pressure upon the food industry as they will have to make costly changes in food processing.

General Foods, Nabisco, Coca Cola and many others are those who support the Nutrition Foundation so from where do you think the pressure comes to keep silent Feingold`s statements?

All those giant manufacturers will do anything to keep researchers as Feingold mouths shut even if it has a costly price!

After all... We and our children are suffering of these harmful Artificial Food Additives!

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The Healthy Food Pyramid.

In March 1990, Health and Welfare Canada published its new nutritious recommendations for Canadians which are:

• Make your nutrition more enjoyable by variety.
  

• Give the bigger part of your nutrition to cereals, breads and other grain products and also to vegetables and fruits.
  

• Choose more dairy products, meats and more lean foods.

• Try to obtain and maintain a healthy weight by being active regularly and by eating healthy.

• Consume salt and caffeine in moderation.

With a little imagination, it is possible to improve our nutrition and to vary our daily menus. To feel physically fit and obtain the necessary nutrition for good health, variety is the secret to a balanced diet. We should consume nutrients of every group of the Healthy Food Pyramid each day:

• Grain Products: include all kinds of breads, cereals, rice and pasta. They mainly supply Vitamin B Complex and fibre.

• Fruits and Vegetables are a source of dietary fibre, Vitamin A and Vitamin C.

• Dairy Products are important for bone development of adolescents and maintenance of bone structure of adults. It contains mostly calcium and protein.

• Meat and Meat Substitutes are an excellent source of iron and protein. All meats, fish, tofu, legumes and nuts.

• Fats and refined sugar may be consumed in moderation.
  

Later on we are going to present to you some healthy menus, balanced according the Healthy Food Pyramid. We also propose ways to convert so called “standard” menus into more health-conscious ones.

Our philosophy is that the pleasure of eating well does not have to be complicated!

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How to Learn what is Healthy Eating?

Cooking Recipes by Everaert Patrice motivates us to break the monotony of our way of cooking. To eat properly despite our busy schedule is a challenge.



Cooking Recipes by Everaert Patrice
helps us to overcome this!


By following the advices given on this blog, we can make an informed choice and attain the nutritious balance proposed by dieticians. More and more studies link nutrition and health, recognizing the importance of healthy nutrition in the prevention of disease such as hypertention, coronary disease, obesity and cancer.

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