Dr. Ben F. Feingold created the Feingold Diet as a treatment for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in 1973. DISCLAIMER Please remember that Wikipedia is offered for informational use only. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ...
Benjamin F. Feingold, M.D., (born June 15, 1900 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; died, March 23, 1982) was a pediatric allergist from California, who proposed in 1973 that salicylates, artificial colors, and artificial flavors cause hyperactivity in children.
Dr Feingold received a BS degree in 1921, and an MD in 1924, from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Dr Feingold worked as the house officer at the children's clinic of the University of Vienna, Austria from 1928 to 1929.
The Feingold diet is a food elimination program developed by BenF. Feingold, MD to treat hyperactivity.
Feingold was a pediatrician and allergist, and was considered a pioneer in the fields of allergy and immunology.
The researchers provided a "Feingold" diet for a single week that was, by their own description, unpalatable, but did not tell the children it was a diet.