The Feingold Cookbook for Hyperactive Children [Paperback]

Ben F. Feingold (Author), Helene S. Feingold (Author)

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Publication Date: March 12, 1979

Explains the problems of dietary management, brings the scientific evidence up-to-date and provides a list of forbidden foods. Includes recipes and menus for additive and salicylate-free meals for the entire family.

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Explains the problems of dietary management, brings the scientific evidence up-to-date and provides a list of forbidden foods. Includes recipes and menus for additive and salicylate-free meals for the entire family.

Product Details

• Paperback: 327 pages
• Publisher: Random House (March 12, 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394736648
• ISBN-13: 978-0394736648
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #287,989 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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68 of 68 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a life changing book!, February 9, 2000

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Kimberly A. Collins (Warrens, Wisconsin) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Feingold Cookbook for Hyperactive Children: And Others with Problems Associated with Food Additives and Salicylates (Hardcover)

For parents of children who have been labled ODD, ADHD and other hyperactive and behaivor disorders, this book could change your lives. Dr. Fiendgold has come under critism for his ideas concerning the effect of cemicals in food and their effect on an individuals' nervious systems. When I decided to try Dr. Fiengold's diet I was desperite to help my ODD son and wanted to help him without putting him on drugs. Our whole family tried the diet for six weeks and the results were amazing! Our son is now 20 and a straight A student at the Univerisity of Wisconsin on a music scholarship! He still has to follow Dr. Feingold's guidelines for his diet, but he is a very delightful and productive young man today and has never been on drugs to control his behavior! Thank you DR. Fiengold! We love you!

This book needs to be reprinted!

35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Feingold Cookbook for Hyperactive Children, November 11, 2000

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Marie Tocci (Easton, Ma.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Feingold Cookbook for Hyperactive Children: And Others with Problems Associated with Food Additives and Salicylates (Hardcover)

I have followed this cookbooks recommendations since 1983. My son is ADHD and my husband always said if you can't read it don't eat it. It definitely made a differnce in my sons actions and he is now graduating from college and we all still eat much healthier than we would have. The recipes in this cookbook are delicious and I would like to give atleast two of these for Christmas presents and I need one l for myself since whoever borrowed it never returned it to me. They must of liked it too.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lifesaver Book, September 7, 2005

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dgm (Kansas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Feingold Cookbook for Hyperactive Children (Paperback)

In the late '70s, an earlier version of this book changed my two-year old daughters life forever. I believe that then the title phrase was "hypoactive" instead of "hyperactive". I had an adorable, sweet, little girl that would suddenly go into uncontrollable rages. A neighbor happened to be watching the Phil Donahue show and told me about the cookbook that was discussed on the show that day. I bought it on Tuesday and by Saturday I had a new child. I explained to her that certain things were poison to her and that sugar would make her have what we called a "sugar fit". She, at age 2 1/2, became a helper in the process and would refuse any candy, etc. that was offered to her. She's now age 30, and still is careful about intake, staying aware of how foods affect her. She has never, ever had another "sugar fit". I'm looking for the book again for my son's little boy - age 2 1/2 - who has the same symptoms.