The last thing we want is one more thing to worry about when feeding our kids. Parenting is tricky enough, without more warnings being thrown at us all the time. But if you have a child with behavior or attention issues, you may want to take a look at the following links.
First, have you read my other post on food dyes? Dangers of Artificial Coloring in Foods / Healthy Popsicle Alternatives
photo by MadaiseHere is an excerpt from an article in the LA Times on Food Dyes:
Almost every parent has a story about their kid bouncing off the walls after downing a package of jelly beans or eating a neon blue-frosted cupcake at school. Most blame the sugar.
But some new research suggests that the rainbow of artificial colors may have a bigger effect on children’s behavior. And in other parts of the world, some organizations are starting to take action on these ingredients.
Read the whole LA Times article.
For me, figuring out what to believe is a common sense issue again. Whenever we can avoid unnatural artificial colors, we will, and this is yet another reason that buying organic whenever possible is a good idea.
What about you? Have any of you seen adverse reactions in your kids?
- Did your doctor recommend low-fat milk for your children after age 2? PLEASE READ THIS POST ABOUT HEALTHY MILK FIRST!!!
- Know someone who is pregnant? Make sure they know the many benefits to a growing baby of the mother taking cod liver oil!!! Read about the many benefits and why everyone should be taking it (or the capsules), especially see the links at the bottom of the post with specific info for pregnant and nursing moms. Be aware: docs will probably advise against taking CLO because of the vitamin A, but they may not know about the WORLD of difference between synthetic vitamin A and NATURAL vitamin A when taken with the proper ratios of vitamin D! Read more about possible cod liver oil toxicity to put your mind at ease.
- Recently someone asked me if you could eat fast food every day as long as you work out a lot to burn off the calories. Answer: NO!!! Read about fast food dangers to find out why. Now read about some nutritious and easy fast food alternatives to help you avoid the temptation to hit the drive-thru.
- Need a good Christmas gift for your spouse? Read this post from a while back about exercise and why I love my Bowflex.
- Read about sugars and the best choices
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Jane 11.07.08 at 11:33 pm
Thanks for the good information on your site. It looks like you share my admiration for Sally and the folks at the Weston A Price Foundation.
Don’t mean to be picky, but one of the articles to which you are linked has a few boo boos.
It mentions Yellow #2, but there is no such dye that is currently allowed in our food. The only yellow dyes allowed in food in the US are Yellow 5 and 6.
The dyes added to salmon feed are not the same as the numbered dyes like Yellow 5 and 6 or Red 40. The colorings used for salmon are astaxanthin and canthaxanthin. Now the down side is that it’s hard to get good information on the source(s) of these dyes. They apparently can be made from many things, including petroleum — which is the source for the numbered dyes. But they can also be made from algae, from shellfish and from red yeast that is grown on corn by-products; and the consumer really has no way of knowing.
There’s a lot of information on dyes at http://www.feingold.org, and I’ve written about them for a few decades.
Best wishes,
Jane Hersey, national director
Feingold Association of the US
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Kelly the Kitchen Kop 11.08.08 at 4:45 am
Hi Jane,
Thanks for sharing that correct info with us. Your site looks very interesting, I may be contacting you for more information.
Kelly
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Local Nourishment 02.28.09 at 3:35 pm
I am so glad to see information on this finally coming out. My oldest boy (who turns 29 this year, how can THAT be!?) always had a very strong reaction to artificial colors in his food. He’d react some to sugar, and some to preservatives, but a single popsicle would have him babbling incoherently and banging his head on the walls for an hour. The doctor didn’t believe me, and absolutely promised me that it was not artificial colors affecting him. I knew better.
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Kelly 03.01.09 at 12:18 am
Wow, that is so sad that your doc just didn’t have any idea. Neat that your Mom instinct gave you all the info you needed. Did you see the other post I ended up doing all about the Feingold Association?
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