What You Should Know Concerning Fashionable Diets - The Feingold Diet

What You Should Know Concerning Fashionable Diets - The Feingold DietWhat You Should Know Concerning Fashionable Diets - The Feingold Diet By: nikky HowardThe Feingold diet could be a food elimination program developed by Ben F. His diet eliminates many artificial colours and artificial flavors, aspartame, 3 petroleum-based preservatives, and some salicylates. When beginning this diet foods like pears, cashews and bananas replace apples, almonds and grapes. The children's average standardized test scores rose 8.1% when levels of sucrose (traditional table sugar) were restricted and removal of two artificial food colors. The next academic year when the remaining food colours and all artificial flavors were removed their performance rose by 3.8%. Before the dietary changes, the additional faculty food the youngsters ate, the more serious they did academically. After the changes were made, the more school food the children ate, the higher they did academically. Criticisms include the difficulty of avoiding synthetic additives, especially in processed or quick food or while eating out, and also the alleged social and emotional side effects caused by the diet. They claim families are restricted to a slim selection of often expensive foods, which must be prepared "from scratch", greatly increasing the effort and time required to organize meals. Looking Guide providing thousands of acceptable choices as well as several readily offered convenience foods.