Nearly every kid's food is "decorated" - or "tainted" - with artificial food color and additives. While they make food look pretty, there may be a downside. Can our children's daily consumption of juices, candy, and soft drinks with these additives be fueling disruptive behavior, restlessness, lack of concentration, fidgeting, and recurrent interrupting? Over the past 40 years, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), British authorities and researchers have insisted that there was little or no link between hyperactivity and food preservatives like sodium benzoate or artificial coloring like sunset yellow food dyes. Yet a study published last month in the British journal Lancet has brought this under question.
WASHINGTON -- A consumer advocacy group on Tuesday called on the Food and Drug Administration to ban the use of eight artificial colorings in food because the additives may cause hyperactivity and behavior problems in some children. Controlled studies conducted over three decades have shown that children's behavior can be worsened by some artificial dyes, says the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
PHYSICAL FITNESS ALONE WON'T PROTECT HEALTH Unfortunately, New Mexico has no present plan to get the carcinogens and neurotoxic additives out of our children's (and our) food channels. The "chemical feast" will continue even if the governor's new Council on Physical Fitness succeeds in getting every obese child in New Mexico to lose 50 pounds.
... relevant data demonstrate a link between children's consumption of synthetic color additives in food...
Food coloring is the reason glace cherries are red rather than beige and that children's tongues sometimes appear freakishly blue. But man-made dyes may do more than make processed food look vibrant and whimsical. Some blame the additives for triggering behavioral problems in youngsters. Acting on research published in the Lancet, the European Parliament last year began requiring products containing synthetic food colors to carry warning labels saying that "consumption may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children.
... device given premarket approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). . . I . A . . ..., a ventricular assist device for children with failing hearts, even though the survival rate... respect to drugs and food and color additives. Post, at 7-11. Two points render the conclusion...
A culinary stalwart is hoping to capitalize on mounting evidence linking certain food additives to autism. Whitsons Culinary Group, an Islandia enterprise, has introduced a menu of gluten-, soy- and casein-free foods aimed primarily at children with developmental disorders across the autism spectrum.
In African-American, Latino and low-income white communities, many children are drinking intensely concentrated, sweetened, colored drinks and eating ice pops with the same ingredients. The ingrethents listed on the labels of these drinks - artificial colors, artificial flavors, preservatives, BHA, BHT and TBHQ- could spell danger to those children who might be sensitive to these substances. Another ingrethent, sulfite, has also been found to cause asthma attacks in susceptible individuals. Reports indicate that AfricanAmerican children experience a greater frequency of asthma attacks than any other children. I have created a poster entitled, "Drinks that Drain the Brain." It reads: ''If you drink red, you may lose your head, if you drink green, it may make you scream, if you drink blue...
... a lot to be desired? Research has shown that food additives such as sugar, coloring and other chemic...
WASHINGTON | Some evidence links dyes found in everyday foods to hyperactivity in certain children, scientists and academics told a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee Wednesday. The panel is expected to weigh in Thursday on whether studies, some of which are decades old, definitively link the dyes and the disorder. The question is whether the potential effect on a possibly small percentage of children should lead to an outright ban of the additives or stricter warning labels on foods.
WASHINGTON - The FDA is examining the link between dyes found in everyday foods and hyperactivity in children. At a two-day meeting that started Wednesday, an FDA advisory committee will decide whether available data links the dyes and the disorder. The panel will recommend today whether the agency should further regulate dyes, do more studies on the issue or require better labeling of the additives. They could also recommend that the FDA do nothing at all.
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