The Feingold Diet helps with depression and suicidal thoughts?

My son has been on the Feingold diet for mild autism and adhd symptoms.  I noticed on the website that this diet can help with depression and suicidal thoughts.  It also helps with violent behavior and insomnia.  

I've been adding a lot of the food into my everyday life and can personally tell you I feel pretty good.  

The diet eliminates foods with chemicals and dyes and even apples.  Goodbye M&Ms and Skittles.  

To get the shopping guide and brochures is a bit expensive.  

Type in Feingold diet to find their website.  

Would you try the diet?

[run4you]

They have proven that certain food dyes do cause ADHD symptoms.

However, there are studies that show that diet is not effective in treating autism, and I can personally attest to that. My son is autistic, and there were no changes (aside from normal progression, which is still incredibly rapid) on the GFCF diet.

So, no. I buy that a healthy, balanced diet will help you period... regardless of illness. I don't believe that, unless you have a vitamin deficiency, diet will help, aside from a placebo effect.

Just my opinion.

[Athena_M]

So the Feingold nor the GFCF did not help your son's autistic like behaviors?  

From my observations, my son will hand flap if he eats Skittles and will make lots of vocalizations if he eats certain types of bread.  He will cry if he eats Saltine crackers and if he eats an apple he is hopping all over the living room doing vocal stimming.  He will also cry if he eats sugary foods.  

The Feingold diet did improve his printing.  

For me if I eat red dye I have insomnia.