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Food Additives

ADHD and food additives

From the Lancet: Summary Background: We undertook a randomised, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, crossover trial to test whether intake of artificial food colour and additives (AFCA) affected childhood behaviour. Method: 153...

Migraine Triggers And Fighters

Dietician Keri Glassman On Foods That May Help Set Off Or Prevent Them, Or Bring Relief To Sufferers (CBS) If you're one of the more than 28 million Americans plagued by debilitating migraine headaches, relief may be as simple...

Weighing Nondrug Options for A.D.H.D.

About 2.5 million children in the United States take stimulant drugs for attention and hyperactivity problems. But concerns about side effects have prompted many parents to look elsewhere: as many as two-thirds of children with...

Understanding the Need for Limiting Your Intake of Food Additives

Over the past century, as more people moved from farms to cities, the demand increased for a year-round supply of many foods. As a result, food manufacturers stepped up the use of additives to extend shelf life, ensure the...

EFSA approves mineral sources - NewsGrabs 15 June 2008

EFSA approves bisglycinate mineral sources Bisglycinates of calcium, magnesium, copper and zinc were deemed safe for use in foods and supplements by the Eurpoean Food Safety Authority's scientific panel on food additives and...

Meet Alpha Tocopherol, aka Vitamin E

If you eat processed foods, you eat food additives. There really is no way around that fact. Some additives are benign and might even be considered beneficial, while others you might just want to avoid. I recently came across...

More Food for thought…part 3

What’s in your food? - A primer on artificial food additives. In this series, we’ve been exploring the issue of the health effects of artificial food additives from a study on hyperactivity to food coloring. In this part, we...

More Foods to Avoid and How to Do It

Only a couple of weeks after I wrote about fish and shellfish I’m no longer eating, I find this compelling op-ed in the New York Times (via CookThink) about why we should add salmon to that list. It seems that only wild Alaskan...

Smarties

The ins and outs of how we colour our foodNestle’s new television adverts for Smarties are a cross between grown-up Teletubbies in head-to-toe lycra jumpsuits and the parable of the prodigal son. You’ve probably caught a...

Headaches and Food

By tracking your headache episodes through your headache diary, you may be able to identify specific foods that trigger your headaches. Not only can specific foods trigger a headache, but dietary habits can also play a role....