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Food Additives To Avoid

By Denise on Oct 14, 2008 in Eating, Families and Teens, Featured

 It is known that food additives  (dyes and preservatives) affect our mood and behavior (ask any teacher and they can tell you who brought the healthy lunch and whose was filled with dyes and preservatives). 

In fact, some social workers will not take on cases of children with ADHD/ADD/Anxiety/Autism if parents are unwilling to remove food additives from the child’s diet.  That is just one example of how diet can greatly affect a child’s life. 

For what are food additives used? To:

  • ·         change food’s color
  • ·         preserve food
  • ·         prevent rancidity
  • ·         keep fats emulsified and foods stable  

Most of the chemicals are synthetic compounds, some with known negative health effects.  Mostly, the long term affect of consuming large amounts of additives are unknown.  

Check out this list of the top 12 to avoid.

 

Although eliminating these may be impossible for some people, begin to notice how you feel (or how your children act) after consuming these.  You may find more sensitivity to one more than another.

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  2. By Jane Hersey on Oct 16, 2008 | Reply

    This is great information. There are many undesirable chemicals in our food, including the fake colorings, which are made from petroleum! But the good news is that is really is surprisingly easy to avoid the worst of the additives without having to make major changes in your diet.
    My colleagues and I at the non-profit Feingold Association (http://www.feingold.org) have beens showing people how to find better options for over 30 years.
    There are natural candies, cookies, ice cream, convenience foods, prepared foods, cake mixes, mac & cheese mixes, etc. Some of these are made by major companies and today most supermarkets have an impressive selection of foods that are free of the worst of the additives.
    Once a family learns how unnecessary things like dyes are, they typically take a closer look at their diet in general, and begin to take the steps toward healthier eating. The Feingold diet is often the first simple step to good health.
    But while it’s fairly easy to find good food in the supermarket, it’s very hard to find it in most school cafeterias. See our other site for informaton on that and suggestions about how you can change things. www.School-Lunch.org.

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