TY  - JOUR
T1  - MOre on food additives and hyperkinesis
AU  - CROOK WG
Y1  - 1979/10/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130100104026
JO  - American Journal of Diseases of Children
SP  - 1080
EP  - 1081
VL  - 133
IS  - 10
N2  - 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
SN  - 0002-922X
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130100104026
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130100104026
ER  -