Posted on 09/06/2007 11:44:45 AM PDT by Froufrou
Certain artificial food colorings and other additives can worsen hyperactive behaviors in children aged 3 to 9, British researchers reported on Wednesday.
Tests on more than 300 children showed significant differences in their behavior when they drank fruit drinks spiked with a mixture of food colorings and preservatives, Jim Stevenson and colleagues at the University of Southampton said.
"These findings show that adverse effects are not just seen in children with extreme hyperactivity (such as ADHD) but can also be seen in the general population and across the range of severities of hyperactivity," the researchers wrote in their study, published in the Lancet medical journal.
Stevenson's team, which has been studying the effects of food additives in children for years, made up two mixtures to test in one group of 3-year-olds and a second group of children aged 8 and 9.
They included sunset yellow coloring, also known as E110; carmoisine, or E122; tartrazine, or E102; ponceau 4R, or E124; the preservative sodium benzoate, or E211; and other colors.
One of the two mixtures contained ingredients commonly drunk by young British children in popular drinks, they said. They did not specify what foods might include the additives.
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Of course they didn't.
Back in my day it was red dye # something or other. Of course after scaring everyone half to death about almost everything red, they finally admitted you would have to eat a train car load of the dye.
~snorrfle!~ IIRC, that was red dye #3 and it was followed by this popular bumper sticker:
“Laboratory mice cause cancer.”
Heck...I’ve known this for a long time. We took my grandson off of any foods containing red dyes when he was 2 because he was so hyper, he is now 9.
I tried reading this article, but I got distracted by my juicy drink and . . . hey, I wonder what’s on TV?
ROTFLMAO! Distracted by a juice
What was I saying?
Well that’s just great. I suppose I’ll learn of some additives in my kids’ Red Bull now.
LOLOLOL!
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