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As promised, here is a guest post from Dr. Reichelt.  This may be of value to
parents of ADHD children who are doing their own reading in the area (or to
their doctors)..

From: K.L.Reichelt @ rh.uio.no
Date: 05/26/95 05:36:59 PM

Hi.
Just a few references to diet and hyperactivity syndrome.
1: Egger J et al (1985) Controlled oligoantigenic treatment of the
hyperkinetic syndrome. The Lancet .march 9th :540-544.
2:Kaplan SJ et al (1989) Dietary replacement in preschool-aged hyperactive
boys. Pediatrics 83:7-17.
3: Egger J et al (1992) Controlled trial of hyposensitisation with
food-induced hyperkinetic syndrome .The Lancet 339:1150-1153.
4:Carter CM et al (1993) Effects of a few food diet in attention deficit
disorder. Arch Dis Child 69:564-568.
5: Marshall  (1989) Attention deficit disorder and allergy :A neurochemical
model of the relationship between illnesses. Psychol Bulletin 106: 434-446.
Furthermore high intake of low roughage ( purified ) carbohydrates cause
rapid increases in blood sugar followed by rapid insulin increase and
subsequent steep fall.This is prevented by high fiber additions concomitant
with carbohydrate intake. It is possible to have an overshoot with
postprandial hypoglycemia.
This is more common in habitually violent offenders in Finland.
Virkkunen M (1982)) Reactive hypogycemia tendency among habitually vioent
offenders. Neuropsychopharmacol 8: 35-40.

Finally we have found peptide increases (possibly
phosphorylated/glycosylated?) in Hyperkinesia. ( Hole K et al ( 1988)
Attention defciti disorders: A study of peptide-containing urinary
complexes. j develop behav Pediatrics. 9: 205-212.).

It should also be noted that concentrated glucose can increase the
paracellular uptake in the gut .That is also more protein and peptides can
be taken up.
Ref : Pappenheimer JR and Madara JL (1993) Role of active transport in
regulation of junctional permeability and paracellualr absorption of
nutrients   by intestinal epithelia .in Istonic transport in leaky Epithelia
(Alfred
benzen Symposium)Munksgaard ,Copehagen : pp 221-232.

Hope this may be of some use to at least some parents.

Cheers                          Tiny

K. Reichelt
Pediatric Research Institute
N-0027 Oslo, Norway
Tel: +47 22 86 90 45
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