Hyperactive Children's Support Group

Hyperactive Children's Support Group Helping Children ADHD through nutrition and otherwise The HACSG is Britain's leading proponent of a dietary approach to the problem of hyperactivity.

The Hyperactive Children's Support Group is a registered charity which has been successfully helping ADHD/Hyperactive children and their families for over 30 years. In 1987 the HACSG, with the support of Professor Neil Ward, Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Surrey and the Group's Scientific Director, found that, out of a total of 357 children who had been diagnosed as hyperactive,

87% had adverse reactions to artificial colourings and 72% to artificial preservatives in food. Similar results were discovered in 1993 at the Institute of Child Health, and as long ago as 1987 a Scottish psychiatrist, Dr. Ian Menzies, obtained consistently positive results in treating hyperactive children by removing artificial additives from their diet. Similarly, a recent report published by the Food Commission confirms that studies involving 277 children on the Isle of Wight have shown food additives to be a major cause of misconduct in children. A study commissioned by the FSA and carried out at Southampton University was published in the medical journal The Lancet in September 2007. Its findings support the Isle of Wight research results, and show a definite link between food additives and behavioural problems such as hyperactivity and allergic reactions. Go to our News page for more details.The results of this latest study have led to calls to ban all artificial additives in food for children especially and major supermarket chains in Britain such as Sainsbury's have removed all additives from their own brand products such as soft drinks and children's meals. ( see News page). This is a very positive step forward. SALLY BUNDAY MBE
Founder & Director

PATRONS OF THE HACSG
Prof. David Bellamy
The Pearly Guild
Terry Jones
Friends of the HACSG
Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
Earl Kitchener TD, DL
Sir Richard Body
The Lord Ramsbotham

Registered Charity No.277643

HACSG publications:
Active or hyperactive? Recognising hyperactivity
The Feingold programme
Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs)
Better children



The HACSG Food & Behaviour Diary is now available on line. The Hyperactive Children's Support Group hopes that this website will serve as a useful tool for all those parents and health professionals who believe that the use of drugs to treat this difficult problem (which seems to be affecting more and more children) should be a last, rather than first, resort. The Group has helped thousands of children over the years since its foundation in 1977 and has substantial documentary evidence, supported by scientific studies, which show that a dietary and nutritional approach to ADHD/Hyperactivity is well worth trying.

Address

71 Whyke Lane
Chichester
PO197PD

Opening Hours

Monday 2:30pm - 4:30pm
Tuesday 2:30pm - 4:30pm
Wednesday 2:30pm - 4:30pm
Thursday 2:30pm - 4:30pm
Friday 2:30pm - 4:30pm

Telephone

+44 (0)1243 539966

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The Hyperactive Children’s Support Group was founded in 1977

The main aims of the HACSG is to provide help, information and

ideas for a Nutritional, Dietary approach for Hyperactivity/ ADHD.

There has been more than enough research carried out over many,