"Additives/colourings in food make children hyper"

[earlgrey]

Erm, .... can someone tell me exactly why this is news?

tartrazine sends dd1 allergies haywire. its like poisen to her, doesnt make her hyper, but has allergic reactions to 'safe' things after having anything with tartrazine in it.

CF, I was amazed in the US that yoghurt - a supposedly healthy food - came in torquoise. I refused to buy it (good job I didn't buy into the American dairy obsession).

I was talking about this with DH this morning. It could take decades for mothers saying my child is acting a but funny when having this, being dismissed as an idiot, and finally someone from the medical research profession takes some interests and Tara!!! we are finally told they have found something out when we have been telling them about the problem all the way along!

But if this is enough to convince manufacturers of products like Calpol that we really don't need it to be pink at the expense of our children, I'm grateful

well its something if this is mainstream fact now.
they resisted it for years.

reacting to tartrazine runs in my family, we were all affected by it as children, with classic hyper active symptoms - fortunately my mother heard a report on womans hour and whipped it out of our diets when we were teenagers.

Groundhog day.

yep. my dh said no shit sherlock also. surely we knew sunset yellow and tartrazine sent kids spinning out of the galaxy 25 years ago?

on the up side, i am pleased they've managed to get research published on this topic - isn't it all funded by the big food and pharma industries?

When oh when will sweeteners be taken seriously.

i agree UCM.

i avoid aspartame etc like the plague - bit worried about the DC's teeth though going for full sugar options now.

Joining this thread late but ds2 was having allergic reactions to additives from 1984 onwards!! He even had a reaction to oranges which had been irrigated with tartrazine-laced water.

I know of someone whose DD was diagnosed with epilepsia. They later realised she was allergic to aspartame, as soon as the aspartame was removed from the diet the seizures stopped.

What has shocked me is that in a leading newspaper,ok it was the Mail, this woman had been campaigning for the use of additives for years.

There was not one bit of it that spoke of Aspartame/Sorbitol/Nutrasweet.

I am sure that this woman knows, but for me, after reading the stuff on this, I can't possibly explain as I am not a scientist, it was crap.

we have known that for years and years so someone in white coat has made it official

But they haven't included sweeteners..............

Dohhhhhhhhh

Oh my god! Someone gave my 16-month old a crisp today with Monosodium Glutamate in it! I'm probably really overreacting but I felt so angry and guilty. Am I overreacting?

She normally only gets mainly organic natural stuff and now she has been tainted!Arghhh!

You are talking shit, love.

You need to talk to Moondog before you even begin to argue with me.

If you are not interested in the facts that all of this shit may give your son or daughter problems later on in life, fair enough.

I am worried enough to think about these things. Sadly I have some 'O' levels that are old school and would rocket your sociology degree into fucking stupidness, which is probably where it belongs!!!

everychocolate, my brothers childhood was stolen from him, because he was ill all the time, reacting to food additives.

Sorry, I just dont see the humour in laughing at someone else's affliction.

Am I missing something or is there history between these two? All I can see from every is two posts which though provocative do not warrant such vitriol.

I am not laughing at anyone or being provocative, I was deadly serious, yesterday I was fuming because someone thoughtlessly gave my daughter a handful of MSG crisps at a toddler group, and it was only by looking at the packet that I realised what they contained so hastily confisticated them. I felt very angry but wondered if I was overreacting, because, in essence, my daughter had only been eaten one crisp and so I hope will not come to harm as a result of it. I would never have knowingly given my child MSG and try to include only organic food in her diet.

I too have perused the thread and cannot find to whom UCM is referring too

referring to, sorry

saw this and wondered if i could get a funding grant to research the possibility that the sky is in fact blue in colour when we look at it from earth.

or that when it rains we get wet

ooh or maybe i will spend 5 years being paid to see if its true that poo smells?

obviously this needs to be taken seriously because a scientist has said so. the fact that mothers have been shouting it at sweet manufactors for years just wasn't good enough

The research is actually helpful to parents who believe additives affect their children as it is hard, scientific evidence to back you up, that can't just be dismissed with a 'huh, parents, what do they know'. So I wouldn't bitch about it personally, I'd be glad someone actually bothered to investigate what parents say for once rather that just fobbing us off.

That's what scientists do. Investigate theories and assumptions to find out if they are true.