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In 1973, San Francisco allergist Ben Feingold created an uproar by claiming that synthetic food additives triggered hyperactivity, then the most commonly diagnosed childhood disorder in the United States. He contended that the epidemic should not be treated with drugs such as Ritalin but, instead, with a food additive-free diet. Parents and the media considered his treatment, the Feingold diet, a compelling alternative. Physicians, however, were skeptical and designed dozens of trials to challenge the idea. The resulting medical opinion was that the diet did not work and it was rejected. Matthew Smith asserts that those scientific conclusions were, in fact, flawed. An Alternative History of Hyperactivity explores the origins of the Feingold diet, revealing why it became so popular, and the ways in which physicians, parents, and the public made decisions about whether it was a valid treatment for hyperactivity. Arguing that the fate of Feingold's therapy depended more on cultural, economic, and political factors than on the scientific protocols designed to test it, Smith suggests the lessons learned can help resolve medical controversies more effectively.

Research Design --- Food Hypersensitivity. --- Food Additives --- Diet Fads --- Child. --- Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity --- Food additives --- Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder --- ADD (Child behavior disorder) --- ADHD (Child behavior disorder) --- Attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity --- Attention deficit disorders --- Hyperactive child syndrome --- Hyperkinesia in children --- Hyperkinetic syndrome --- Behavior disorders in children --- Minimal brain dysfunction in children --- Children --- Minors --- Allergy, Food --- Food Allergy --- Hypersensitivity, Food --- Allergies, Food --- Food Allergies --- Food Hypersensitivities --- Hypersensitivities, Food --- Foodborne Diseases --- standards. --- adverse effects. --- psychology. --- history. --- diet therapy. --- Toxicology. --- History. --- Diet therapy. --- Nutritional aspects. --- Feingold, Ben F.

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This book argues that over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the cinema in Britain became the site on which childhood was projected, examined, and understood. Through an analysis of these projections; via case studies that encompass early cinema, pre and post-war film, and contemporary cinema; this book interprets the child in British cinema as a device through which to reflect upon issues of national culture, race, empire, class, and gender. Beginning with a discussion of early cinematic depictions of the child in Britain, this book examines cultural expressions of nationhood produced via non-commercial cinemas for children. It considers the way cinema encroaches on the moral edification of the child and the ostensible vibrancy and vitality of the British boy in post-war cinema. The author explores the representational and instrumental differences between depictions of boys and girls before extending this discussion to investigate the treatment of migrant, refugee, andimmigrant children in British cinema. It ends by recapitulating these arguments through a discussion of internationally successful British blockbuster cinema. The child in this study is a mobile figure, deployed across generic boundaries, throughout the history of British cinema and embodying a range of discourses regarding the health and wellbeing of the nation. Matthew Smith is a Film Studies scholar based in North West England. He has previously worked at the University of Liverpool, UK, and the University of Lancaster, UK, from which he received his PhD.

Mass communications --- Film --- TV (televisie) --- communicatie --- film --- Great Britain --- Children in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Communication. --- Motion pictures. --- British Film and TV. --- Media Reception and Media Effects. --- Close Readings in Film and TV.

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Kingston, Richard, --- Shrewsbury, Charles Talbot,