Cut out the preservatives!

Griff · 09-13-2007, 10:26 AM

Is your three year old making you nuts? What are you feeding him?

Parents who suspect that artificial ingredients in food are affecting their children's behavior can now point to some cold, hard proof. A carefully designed study released Thursday in The Lancet, a leading British medical journal, shows that a variety of common food dyes and the preservative sodium benzoate — an ingredient in many soft drinks, fruit juices, salad dressings and other foods — causes some children to become more hyperactive and distractible than usual.

09-13-2007, 10:26 AM	#1
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Cut out the preservatives! Is your three year old making you nuts? What are you feeding him? Parents who suspect that artificial ingredients in food are affecting their children's behavior can now point to some cold, hard proof. A carefully designed study released Thursday in The Lancet, a leading British medical journal, shows that a variety of common food dyes and the preservative sodium benzoate — an ingredient in many soft drinks, fruit juices, salad dressings and other foods — causes some children to become more hyperactive and distractible than usual. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

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