RT Journal
A1 CROOK WG
T1 MOre on food additives and hyperkinesis
JF American Journal of Diseases of Children
JO American Journal of Diseases of Children
YR 1979
FD October 1
VO 133
IS 10
SP 1080
OP 1081
DO 10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130100104026
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130100104026
AB Sir.—The relationship of diet to hyperactivity remains controversial. However, as pointed out recently in the Journal (132:1149, 1978) by Wender, "New findings... make the issue more complicated and should stimulate more careful research."I am writing to briefly summarize a research report by James Swanson, PhD, of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto who gave a preliminary report on Oct 19, 1978, of an investigation he and Marcel Kinsbourne, MD, PhD, are conducting. He1 stated:The present investigation departs in several ways from previous procedures. The most important change was a simple one; we increase the dose of color to 100 mg from the 13-mg amount recommended by the Nutrition Foundation (and used in most tests of the Feingold hypothesis).With our revised procedures, we documented a relationship between the ingestion of this large amount of artificial color by our patients and a critical symptom of hyperactivity (impairment