Thursday, September 06, 2007

Hyper Kids? Cut Out Preservatives

Hyper Kids? Cut Out Preservatives

Thursday, Sep. 06, 2007

"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."

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1 comment:

Reprobate said...

I totally believe that some of the stuff in our food is doing bad things to us. The top on my list is High Fructose Corn Syrup.