Food additives proven to trigger hyperactivity, so why not ban them?
Posted on 10 September 2007
Published September 10, 2007 . Filed under: Brain and Behaviour, Children's Health, Food and Medical Politics, Healthy Eating, Unhealthy Eating!
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How on earth did this study get to make it as “news”. I have sitting on my desk right now a copy of Hanssen’s 1984 book “E for Additives” on pages 12-14 he discusses the evidence (some of which was known in the 1970s) concerning the likes of tartrazine on children’s behaviour. Gee my mother-in-law blamed food colourings in orange juice for my wife’s younger brother’s wakefulness as long ago as 1977!
db
September 10, 2007 @ 1:30 pm
Is that a typo in the last paragraph???
“…find advisors that are full-time employees of food companies…”
should read
“…find advisors that are NOT full-time employees of food companies…”
September 11, 2007 @ 8:37 am
Thanks Ian – have corrected this now.
J
September 11, 2007 @ 8:52 am
I found the list of corporate associates that control advice to the Government interesting, but as i don’t know the companies and organizations it has not much meaning. Also I know that an organization that claims to be one thing (animal health or ???) may be more interested in total animal product output. More beef, more milk and more eggs for the production cost.
I believe we have the same problem here. I am going to search for a list of corporate-government merry-go-round riders and try to make them famous. Perhaps you might do the same. rm
September 14, 2007 @ 7:35 pm
[...] This from Dr Briffa’s blog
September 19, 2007 @ 10:47 am
It’s not just kids that get hyper from food colourings. If I have E122 (Carmoisine) it makes me aggressive. They have it in some brands of that rose flavour cordial that’s popular with Indian people in milkshakes and desserts.
Also when my nephew was a toddler he had just a small amount of that cordial and he went hysterical in a way we’ve never seen before or since. Apparently kids in India drink it a lot – maybe the weather makes a difference.
September 26, 2007 @ 2:00 am