Food Coloring And Behavior Problems - Coloring Pages For Kids
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Food coloring and behavior problems. Food dyes over the past 50 years chemical dyes used in foods has increased by a whopping 500. To date no conclusive evidence has been found. Thats probably why synthetic food dyes are actually banned in some countries such as the uk but most of the processed food in the us still includes them. A new study published in clinical pediatrics is the first to measure the amount of artificial coloring across popular foods and it carries serious cause for concern as several were found to exceed the threshold for behavioral changes in only one serving.
The idea that artificial food coloring could contribute to behavior problems in children was popularized in the 1970s by dr. Hyperactivity and food dyes have been linked in studies. Food companies add more than 15 million pounds of artificial food dyes to foods each year over five times the amount added to the food supply when our parents were children artificial food dyes have been linked to behavioral problems various types of cancers and other problems 1. Synthetic food colors have been suspected of triggering behavioral problems in children since the 1970s and a growing list of new studies show that synthetic dyes can cause hyperactivity in sensitive and non sensitive children2 a 2007 study commissioned by the british food standards agency that linked a mix of food dyes with increased.
Artificial food colors have long been thought to aggravate the symptoms of adhd although this has been much debated over the years. Artificial food coloring causes behavior problems in children. Fda probes link between food dyes kids behavior the food and drug administration is meeting wednesday and thursday to examine whether artificial food dyes cause hyperactivity in children. My daughter is highly sensitive to food dyes especially yellow 5 yellow 6 blue 1 red 40 and can change from being able to sit and read quietly or do a whole page of addition problems to not being able to sit at all sometimes running in circles uncontrollably when she is exposed to these food dyes.
For more than 30 years scientists have examined the relationship between food coloring and hyperactive behavior in children but with mixed results. This diet eliminated a number of items from a childs diet including artificial food coloring artificial flavoring aspartame an artificial sweetener and artificial preservatives.