Hyperactive children

Duration: 0:14:18

Genre: Educational | Historical

Year Published: 1975

Creator: Carousel Films

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Documents Dr. Ben Feingold's new and controversial method of controlling hyperactivity in children, without the use of drugs, by a special diet which eliminates any foods containing artificial flavoring or coloring. Indicates that the diet has been shown to be between 50 and 60% effective and suggests that this approach is successful because it treats the cause and not the symptoms, as current drug therapy does. Examines the current opposition to his hypothesis which intimates effectiveness based on the placebo phenomenon.

Complete Record: , Documents Dr. Ben Feingold's new and controversial method of controlling hyperactivity in children, without the use of drugs, by a special diet which eliminates any foods containing artificial flavoring or coloring. Indicates that the diet has been shown to be between 50 and 60% effective and suggests that this approach is successful because it treats the cause and not the symptoms, as current drug therapy does. Examines the current opposition to his hypothesis which intimates effectiveness based on the placebo phenomenon.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.