Comments on: Serving Up Food Dyes, UK Style

By: Markey

Markey — Sun, 12 May 2013 03:56:12 +0000

Red dye, as well as the others, come from petroleum and so do the preservatives BHA, BHT & TBHQ as well as artificial flavorings i. e. vanillin and others. There’s a wonderful support group called Feingold Association http://www.feingold.org Be sure to watch the video on the home page.

By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 01:43:39 +0000

We took eggo waffles and nutrigrain bars out of my seven year old diet ( only 2 things in our pantry with such dyes) two weeks later his behavior in school went from concerning to normal and his participation more than doubled. These are the only things we removed and added nothing…i didnt tell anyone…he literally turned on a dime and then teacher and school psychiatrist couldn’t explain it.

By: Margaret Snyder

Margaret Snyder — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:38:21 +0000

My daughter who is 35 experiences debilitating migraines and she lives in the US. She has also been diagnosed with ADHD. We have been doing our own research to see if we can come up with some answers. It is difficult for her to determine what may be causing the migraines but now they are out of control even though she has been on medications that are supposed to prevent or abort the migraine. One thing that she knew for sure is that when she has taken a vitamin pill she is guaranteed to experience a migraine about 1/2 hour later. So we decided to look at the inactive ingredients in vitamin pills and the medications she was taking for migraine. Each of them contained food dyes. She lives in the US and I live in Scotland. When she visited me in the UK last year her migraines significantly subsided and we couldn’t figure out why. We are at our wits end but we are certainly going to do all we can to avoid foods or medication that contain food dyes so see if her health improves. We had not realised until we did the research that the UK uses less food dyes than the UK.

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Anastasiapvu — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 06:10:06 +0000

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By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:25:25 +0000

Thank you Robyn for raising awareness about food colorings. Preservatives are also a problem. My son is allergic to all of this stuff! My doctors tell me it is a “sensitivity” but after getting hold of a red “bomb pop” last summer, the reaction was so bad that people were asking me what happened to him!
My son is now much better with the restrictive diet I put him on. We are on the Feingold Program. It is a program that cuts out all food colorings and preservatives out of your diet. His “ADHD” is much better and his eczema is gone. It all comes back though if we eat the wrong foods. We are learning to be most careful about what goes in our mouths.
Additionally, I was put on Advair last year as my asthma was “worsening” as I was getting older. Due to my son’s diet (I eat with him) my asthma is minimal and I’m off of all asthma medication 6 months now. Hmmmmm.

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Sun, 23 Sep 2012 21:34:08 +0000

[...] ð Stop advertising and marketing food to children. Over thirty-five years ago Michael Jacobson of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and Action for Chidren’s Television (ACT) petitioned the Federal Trade Commission to restrict advertising aimed at children in large part due its effects on children’s nutritional preferences and intake. The FTC agreed with the inappropriateness of marketing to children. However, the food, toy and advertising industries pushed back and unfortunately pressured Congress to halt taking action. That translates today in to 17 to 20 billion dollars being spent annually on the marketing of non-nutrient foods to children. Additionally, as our FDA continues to hold to its stance that artificial food dyes and preservatives in our food are safe, other countries have begun to take progressive action to remove these substances from their products–even in foods made by American manufacturers–for their children’s sakes. michael jacobson television food advertising elimination of food dyes [...]

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