Pure Facts Archives - March 1991

Contents:  March 1991

• Getting the support you need
• Get the bugs out – bringing integrated pest management (IPM) to your community
• Color Johnny Hyperactive/ADD (handout)
• A brief background of the Feingold Program
• Summer school for Keri and me
• Connecting diet and ADD
• NIH:  Animal studies show that artificial food dyes are associated with hyperactivity
• Shaywitz:  The effects of chronic administration of food coloring on activity levels and cognitive performance in normal and hyperactive developing rat pups
• Swanson & Kinsbourne:  Food dyes impair performance of hyperactive children on a laboratory learning test
• Schoenthaler et al:  Major study on nutrition and learning
• Mark
• Policy statement:  Is Ritalin good or bad?
• Easter time – there’s life without jelly beans
• Say it isn’t so! (grape flavor on fields, synthetic fat)
• Is this really progress?
• Sulfites
• Filling the baskets
• Allergic-type reactions to nail polish
• Corn syrup sensitivity?
• Special harvest for babies
• Learning disabilities may be inherited
• Happy birthday party