Food Additives Affect Children’s Health & Behavior

Have you ever wondered whether our children’s diet is affecting their health…or maybe even the way they feel or behave? Do you assume that certain children can “handle” food additives just fine just because they aren’t overweight or diagnosed with a behavior disorder or medical condition?

I encourage you to view the 5-minute video overview below that details the improvements experienced by children at one elementary school when their parents and school administrators worked together for 2 full weeks to eliminate food additives (colorings, flavorings, flavor enhancers, preservatives, etc.) from their diets.

Would it surprise you to know that some of the benefits reported by the children and their parents and school staff included: increased attention skills, decreased impulsiveness & behavior problems, less difficultly falling asleep at night, decreased bed wetting, fewer headaches & skin rashes, and improved mood and anger control (leading to improved relationships with peers and family members)? Even children who appeared initially to have “nothing wrong with them” were better behaved during the 2-week trial diet.

Please view the following video; and if you would like assistance with reducing the amount of food additives in your child’s diet, check out our “Eating Additive-Free Natural Cookbook & Grocery Shopping Guide” we have created to help ease your transition!

Dried Fruit Shouldn’t Glow in the Dark!

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Off hand, I can’t think of anything I eat that glows in the dark, but the bright orange mango slices shown here to the right sure look like they would! Funny how when I slice open a fresh mango…it’s yellow inside! And when I purchase additive-free dried mango slices (as shown below), they are brownish-yellow in color.

But I commonly see bright orange slices sold as “dried mangoes,” too, and they are full of additives, like sulphur dioxide & artificial colorings!

Dried mango slices should look like this! And they should contain “mango” and NO other ingredients! Yum!

Even more ridiculous is that the bins and packages containing these “glow-in-the-dark” varieties often state that they contain “sulphur dioxide for color retention“! Huh? For retention of what color exactly??? The artificial yellow #5 that they’ve added to the slices for some reason??? Or is it the yellow #6 color whose retention is aided by this sulphur dioxide?! I am truly perplexed, and I’m not even sure I want to know! Wow! It really should not be this complicated just to eat real food!

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This REAL food can REALLY mess up your taste buds!

About a week ago, I started having a strange bitter and metallic taste in my mouth (especially right after eating anything). Everything I’ve been eating since then, tastes FUNKY!!  I would’ve NEVER suspected this FOOD was the cause!! Here is the link to the FDA’s page regarding this matter. Be sure to contact them if you experience this reaction and find this food to be the culprit – http://www.fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/ucm247099.htm

Here are a few more links I found on this issue: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/pine-mouth-pine-nuts-leave-bitter-taste-lingers/story?id=11097222

http://m.epicurious.com/articlesguides/blogs/editor/2009/05/got-pine-mouth.html

http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/2011/03/07/pine-nuts-caused-terrible-taste/

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Food Marketing Translations

I wish I knew the original source for this graphic that I found on Facebook. It’s difficult to read, but I believe it says “TheWildDiet.com” at the bottom??? Well, either way, I thought this was great and had to share!

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