Thank you for posting. I hadn't heard of this one, although I've seen other auditory therapies.

I agree! I stumbled upon this tonight and it's a very helpful starting place for my older teenage son.

I usually go cold-turkey when we make a big dietary change. I tell myself and family that we'll try it for six weeks, because that seems achievable. Then, if it's working, we continue. And, yes, digestive enzymes were what I meant. We use the ones from Houston. No-Fenol, Peptizide and HN-Zyme Prime; one each with every meal. At first I opened them and sprinkled them on the first few bites of food, then I eventually convinced my son to chew them and now he swallows them before eating. If he gets too many salicylate foods in one day, or has something with artificial ingredients, I give him two No-Fenols, as that seems to help combat the ill-effects.

I was the same way! We ate a fairly healthful diet already and STILL had improvements. My son is sensitive to the naturally-occurring salicylates, so eliminating the foods for stage one (like apples, cucumbers, and almonds) was helpful. He can actually tolerate them better now. :) I know what you mean about wanting to hear about successful dietary changes. When changing the way your whole family eats, you want some assurance! We also had incredible success with food enzymes, which I just reintroduced after being lazy/cheap for a couple of years. We notice a change within days when I'm consistent with giving them to my son with meals.

I heartily recommend eliminating preservatives, colors and dyes regardless of whether or not you're officially on the program! Where the program comes in handy is when you're dealing with certain seemingly innocuous additives like Vitamin A Palmitate (added to milk and dairy products among other things), which can be preserved with BHT and not indicated on the label. Same with the oil or pan grease for fries, chips, and baked goods like bread. Many commercial oils are preserved with synthetics, but not required to be listed on the label.

We have been using the Feingold program for two years, with excellent success. I already knew that I wanted our family to have an all-natural diet, so ordering the materials was a no-brainer for me. After receiving the food list, we followed it (stage 1) for six weeks, at which point we decided to take a break during my husband's family reunion. That's when we realized how effective it was. The change in our son was so gradual we hadn't noticed how MUCH he had changed. We've been back on ever since, and don't plan on reintroducing artificial/synthetic ingredients back to our regular diet. Really, once you have a few marathon shopping sessions while scanning your foodlist, you settle into a groove and it just becomes second nature. When you are on stage 2, you can eat just about anything, as long as it's a natural version. :)