Rippere V
Nutr Health. 1984;3(3):125-36. doi: 10.1177/026010618400300302.
Foods may cause mental and behavioural symptoms by means of a variety of mechanisms. Food allergy is only one of many of these. The paper presents a brief overview of evidence, as of early 1982, concerning cerebral allergy, food addiction, the hypoglycaemias, caffeinism, hypersensitivity to chemical food additives, reactions to vasoactive amines in foods, and reactions attributed to neuropeptides formed from foods as causes of mental symptoms, with particular reference to psychiatric patients. It is concluded that although much work in this field remains to be done, enough is already known to benefit patients now if available knowledge is applied. An individual-centred environmental approach, extending beyond dietary factors if necessary, is recommended as more likely to help than a group-centred paradigm-based approach to treatment.
食物可能通过多种机制引发精神和行为症状。食物过敏只是其中众多机制之一。本文简要概述了截至1982年初有关大脑过敏、食物成瘾、低血糖症、咖啡因中毒、对化学食品添加剂过敏、对食物中血管活性胺的反应以及食物中形成的神经肽引发精神症状的相关证据，特别提及了精神病患者。结论是，尽管该领域仍有许多工作要做，但如果应用现有知识，目前已知的内容足以使患者受益。建议采用以个体为中心的环境方法，必要时超越饮食因素，这种方法比以群体为中心的基于范式的治疗方法更有可能提供帮助。
