Can food additives affect ADHD?
Posted On November 18, 2010
It’s hard to imagine that artificial, synthetic food additives could actually be good for you. And, if someone said to you that “food additives can impact ADHD”, would you be surprised? Really?
Well, a recent study published in The Lancet found that a mixture of four artificial food colors plus the preservative sodium benzoate aggravated hyperactivity in two groups of children without ADHD — 3-year-olds and 8- to 9-year-olds.
Sounds straightforward, right?
But the problem is that a 2nd additive-cocktail didn’t have as great an effect on the 8- to 9-year-olds. The impact on behavior was still there, just not as severe.
So the data are as mixed up and mixed together as the synthetic dyes in Fruit Loops Cereal. According to Michael F. Jacobson, Ph.D., executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), which has petitioned the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban all food dyes because of hyperactivity concerns, “There’s no way to know at this point which is the problem dye. Is only one of them a problem? All of them a problem?“
These data from this study just emphasize that (from my point of view and for my children) the safest course for us is to avoid all synthetics altogether. Just eat real food, and eat it in control. That way you don’t have to worry if the things your children eat are going to end up harming them in some way.
Can food additives affect ADHD? – CNN.com
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