Artifical colors/Was Dum-dums=Charms pops? ARTIFICIAL COLORS

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Ok, I'm not an expert and I don't recall exactly which artificial

colors, but...

After the Bill Moyers show " Trade Secrets " , I went to www.pbs.org to

view the Trade Secrets website. In one section, rooms in a home were

listed, and you could check out the dangerous products in it. In the

kitchen section, there was info on some artifical colors and the

research about the serious health problems they caused. I don't know

if that site still exists, but it's worth looking for, or run a

search on articial colors & flavors. It will give you some stomach-

turning info from surprisingly mainstream research centers.

So we now refer to artificial colors as neurotoxins & pass on them.

Initially, we weren't purists (well, still aren't), didn't worry

about the additivies, and experienced great gains. Only after gfcfrf

became second nature & I was in a food co-op, I started reducing the

chemical load. And, yes, that has taken us another step towards

recovery. Now that our diet is much cleaner, the effect of consuming

artificial colors is obvious. Next on our elimination list is

nitrate.

> I hear you and have read the book too. Is the reasoning behind no

artificial

> colors because some do contain gluten, making it a need to verify

ingredient

> , or the obvious, some kids react badly to the dyes? I do limit

aritficial

> colors but have not eliminated them and my son has still made great

> improvments. I think for me personally I have not eliminated

because any

> candy that is gf/cf will 9 times out of ten have artificial colors.

Since

> his diet is already restricted I did not want to take all his candy

away

> too, after all he is a child, and kids love candy. But is is an

occasional

> treat only. F

> ] Dum-dums=Charms pops? ARTIFICIAL COLORS

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> >

> > On Tue, 01 May 2001 16:18:27 -0000 brettsmomsue@y... writes:

> > The ingredients are: sugar, corn syrup, citric acid,

> > > artificial flavors & colors ( and tumeric(?) coloring.

> > > Thanks!

> > > Sue

> > >

> >

> > *

> > OK, now I'm leaving myself open to get chewed up with this, cause

I

> > mentioned this in the past and never got an answer except for one

> > irritated answer, but I am not looking for that I just want all to

> > realize.

> > I believe it is page 90 (I leant my book out) of " Special Doets

for

> > Special Kids " by , there is a list of " items to always

avoid on

> > a GFCF diet " and artificial colors is listed on that list, so I

am just

> > so curious why so many of everyone choose to still give

artificial

> > colors.

> > I give no artificial colors or flavors, no nitrates and this diet

has

> > shown me such positive results with my son and tremendous gains,

that I

> > was wondering if more of everyone removed these things (at least

the

> > artificial colors, since it is on the list to ALWAYS AVOID) would

the

> > childs progress on this diet be improved.

> > Just a thought I wanted to kick out there !!

> > on Long Island New York