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Editorial: Diet and children's behaviour problems - disentangling urban myth from clinical reality

Editorial: Diet and children's behaviour problems - disentangling urban myth from clinical reality
Editorial: Diet and children's behaviour problems - disentangling urban myth from clinical reality
This Editorial focuses on diet and behaviour problems - seeking to disentangle the modern urban myth of the toxic effects of the modern diet on children's brains from the reality of its actual effects on behaviour. It suggests we need to navigate a course between these two opposing extremes, seeing the proposed diet–behaviour link more as a hypothesis to test, than a truth to defend or a myth to debunk. It summarises the history and standing of the current diet-behaviour hypothesis and the use of dietary exclusions and dietary supplements for behaviour problems, in the light of current empirical evidence and the impetus this provides for further research in this field
diet, dietary supplements, artificial colours and preservatives, children's behaviour problems, ADHD, omega-3, PUFA
0021-9630
497-499
Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J.S.
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Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J.S.
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Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J.S. (2015) Editorial: Diet and children's behaviour problems - disentangling urban myth from clinical reality. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 56 (5), 497-499. (doi:10.1111/jcpp.12418).

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This Editorial focuses on diet and behaviour problems - seeking to disentangle the modern urban myth of the toxic effects of the modern diet on children's brains from the reality of its actual effects on behaviour. It suggests we need to navigate a course between these two opposing extremes, seeing the proposed diet–behaviour link more as a hypothesis to test, than a truth to defend or a myth to debunk. It summarises the history and standing of the current diet-behaviour hypothesis and the use of dietary exclusions and dietary supplements for behaviour problems, in the light of current empirical evidence and the impetus this provides for further research in this field

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e-pub ahead of print date: 7 April 2015
Published date: 7 April 2015
Keywords: diet, dietary supplements, artificial colours and preservatives, children's behaviour problems, ADHD, omega-3, PUFA
Organisations: Clinical Neuroscience

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Local EPrints ID: 376600
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/376600
ISSN: 0021-9630
PURE UUID: 722cfe8f-ddeb-4544-9b8c-6b10ab08ea6c

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Date deposited: 30 Apr 2015 12:37
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 19:46

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Author: Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke

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