And it’s not just breakfast cereals we choose to consume in all the colors of the rainbow.
Synthetic dyes used as colorants in many common foods and drinks can negatively affect attention and activity in children, according to a comprehensive review of existing evidence published this month by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA).
Funded by the California legislature in 2018, the new report involved a literature review, scientific symposium for experts, peer review process, and public comment period. Its conclusions about the behavioral effects of food dyes are grounded in the results of 27 clinical trials in children performed on four continents over the last 45 years, as well as animal studies and research into the mechanisms through which dyes exert their behavioral effects.
And we already knew that Fruity Sugar Bombs were contributing to childhood obesity.
And so why do we walk through the Big Box Food-a-Rama and find entire aisles of these products whose impacts on our children are known to be so terribly destructive of their health and future lives?
So in the end, who is responsible for a child’s diet? Does Quaker Oats bear any blame for making unhealthy food since nobody forces a mother to choose Cap’n Crunch BooBerries instead of unflavored oat meal the color of wall paper paste that is actually healthy.
Methinks sometimes we have too many choices, and so many of them are bad, and those seem to be the ones we gravitate towards. Sigh.
Cereal Killers
Cereal Killers
Cereal Killers
Food dyes linked to attention and activity problems in children
"Most consumers have no idea that something that is allowed in the food supply by the FDA could trigger adverse behaviors."
And it’s not just breakfast cereals we choose to consume in all the colors of the rainbow.
And we already knew that Fruity Sugar Bombs were contributing to childhood obesity.
From The Ugly Truth about Kids’ Cereals from EcoWatch
And so why do we walk through the Big Box Food-a-Rama and find entire aisles of these products whose impacts on our children are known to be so terribly destructive of their health and future lives?
So in the end, who is responsible for a child’s diet? Does Quaker Oats bear any blame for making unhealthy food since nobody forces a mother to choose Cap’n Crunch BooBerries instead of unflavored oat meal the color of wall paper paste that is actually healthy.
Methinks sometimes we have too many choices, and so many of them are bad, and those seem to be the ones we gravitate towards. Sigh.