Feingold Diet

Latest Edit: Hector 2014-03-13 (EDT)

See Also	Naturopathic Therapies

See Also	Clinical Nutrition

The Feingold diet is a food elimination program developed by Ben F. Feingold, MD to treat hyperactivity. The Feingold Diet is one of the diets used by naturopathic doctors.

Guidelines

The Fingegold diet involves:

1. Eliminating those foods with food additives such as petroleum-based preservatives and artificial colours (FD&C and D&C colors), all synthetic flavours, and synthetic preservatives (BHA, BHT and TBHQ) and aspartame.
2. Eliminating salicylate containing foods such as: almonds, apples, blackberries, cherries, cloves, grapes, nectarines, oranges, plums, strawberries, teas, tomatoes
3. Avoiding aspirin containing compounds, synthetic toothpastes, perfumes.

Uses

• The Feingold diet is sometimes recommended in the treatment of ADD/ADHD.