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Food dyes and hyperactivity
Posted: May 18, 2013
I was wondering if anyone else has noticed when their children have food dyes if they get super hyper and do not listen well. I have noticed a pattern with my 3-year-old daughter, especially with the red 40 dye. When we give her anything with the dye in it she turns into a completely different child than her normal self. I don't want to make a mountain out of a mole hill but was wondering if anyone else has noticed this? Thanks.;
That is a well-known problem - Wondering what food needs to be dyed
[ In Reply To ..]Just a question for you . . . What "food" are you giving your child that HAS . . . or requires . . . "food dye" in it?
That might sound like an odd question, but I ask it in all seriousness.
Hyperactivity IS a known adverse effect of food dye, but the problem you have is that you aren't giving your children real food at all. Real food doesn't contain dye, nor does it need it.
Even if you eliminate acny product containing red dye, your kids will still be affected by wheat, gluten, casein, fillers, MSG, salt, and all the other garbage manufacturers use to extend shelf lives of the garbage they sell.
If your kids were eating fresh vegetables, fruit, and rice, meat, and other nonprocessed food, there wouldn't be any dye to worry about.
I would also caution you about thinking of the problem as a bit of hyperactivity. I have that problem myself. From the inside view, it is a lot more than it looks on the outside. Your daughter just can't describe it.
You are affected by it as well, at least to some degree. You are just so used to it that you think it is the way things are. If you could see it from my perspective, you would never buy anything that came in a box, bag, can, or freezer case. You would go back to natural foods and you wouldn't care what they might cost.
never buy anything that came in a box, bag, can - or freezer case
[ In Reply To ..]and where exactly do you buy your food to eat?? I am highly curious. Do you grow your own? are you vegetarian/vegan? I only ask because where I live, ne central, there is absolutely NO place in order to purchase all the "fresh foods" you mention. None...zippo. "organic" yes, but the cost is outrageous, and when you do not have enough money to even buy the unhealthy stuff, the added cost of natural foods is a very high concern!! and some of these "organic" foods that are labeled as such, do not taste any better or make you healthier, and I "suspect" are just the "regular foods" being labeled as organic and sold for a higher price. The American public is truly being "ripped off" with the cost of their foods, and made ill because of it, so the doctors and pharmaceuticals can become rich...and then they say "obesity" is OUR fault because we eat too much or eat unhealthy foods. Well many of us do not have a "choice" as to the type of foods we can afford to buy...particularly on an MTs wages. I would really like to know where you get all of your foods??
Where did I say organic??? - Wondering
[ In Reply To ..]I never said "organic"!
I said "natural." That means unprocessed. Nothing special about it. I listed some in my post . . . things like fresh fruit, vegetables, rice, and meats.
Unless you are shopping in Dollar Stores and gas stations, there ARE fresh, unprocessed foods available to you. They are in the produce department and meat case, primarily, with a few scattered in the rest of the store.
You might also try farmers markets, vegetable stands, and co-ops.
It would be interesting if you listed the contents of your shopping bags. We could suggest alternatives.
Processed food-like manufacturers have overwhelmed the market with convenience foods to the extent that many people think that is how food must be.
The worst is that many of those alleged "foods" have little or no nutritional value. Soft drinks, Kool-ade, candy, Pringles and similar chips, snacks in bags and boxes, cookies, crackers, Little Debby type pastries.
American cheese, Velveeta, pudding, nearly all processed yogurt, Kraft mac and cheese, instant potato products, Stouffers . . . and the more bargain they are, the worse they are.
Natural foods - like you listed
[ In Reply To ..]Even the "natural foods" you listed, particularly in the produce department where I shop (woodmans) is sub-standard. Even for natural foods, produce, vegetables, and most especially the meat department, they should be prepared and eaten within specified time frames after picking. Since woodmans purchases their foods from warehouses, who knows exactly how long these "fresh" foods and vegetables have been stored. The meat cases are full of meats that were "processed" by way of factory farms with hormones injected to grown the meat quicker to be fatter and taken to slaughter faster. We ingest those hormones, contracting diabetes and obesity, particularly from cows and chickens and pigs. To purchase range fed, hormone-less meats, one has to pay a "pretty price" and even still we are not sure they are just "packaged" as such, saying they were raised this way when in all actuality they were not. I have noticed, when attempting to purchase "Idaho" potatoes (because I like the taste much better) that they are packaged as Idaho potatoes, but if you look more closely at the labeling, particularly the shipping labeling, they are simply Russet potatoes, labeled as Idaho potatoes and sold for a higher price. We do not have co-ops within a 100 mile radius of where I live. There is one farmer's market every Saturday during the summer months, and since I have been "stung" there more than once with purchasing some of these so-called "homegrown" foods, I suspect the foods are purchased at Woodman's also and re-sold to consumers as homegrown, for a much steeper price. I do not shop at dollar stores, gas stations and convenience stores. I do not purchase Little Debbie's, soft drinks, kool-aide, candy, Pringles, or any other of these processed snacks. I do not buy boxed dinners, yogurt, mac and cheese, potato chips, crackers, snacks or anything of the like. Frozen foods, yes, as that is the closest I can get to fresh and not have to frequent the market on a daily basis, and I could not afford to do that, either. Even those, I am skeptical of....but then I am skeptical of everything being offered to the public as "fresh foods and vegetables." I just do not believe them.
Then WHAT contains the red food dye? - sm
[ In Reply To ..]First you asked about red food dye, which is in highly processed food.
Now you are off on a rant about being unable to trust vegetables and claiming you don't buy processed foods.
you are talking to the wrong person - I posted nothing about red food dye
[ In Reply To ..]stop assuming only one person posts on these things. I am not the op. so back off!
Where exactly I buy food -- - Publix
[ In Reply To ..]And, no, I don't necessarily buy organic or have issues with the freshness of the food there.
where there are artificial colors, there are usually artificial flavors... - sm
[ In Reply To ..]and where there are artificial flavors, there are often preservatives. We call them "food additives", but they are chemicals. I think the best rule of thumb is to avoid consuming chemicals as much as possible.
People consume a lot of stuff that isn't food, and kids are especially vulnerable to the effects of these non-food substances (chemicals).
Plus, I can't think of one product with red dye that does not contain lots of sugar - which can really make kids hyper! I think avoiding excessive sugar is good, but I personally do not think that aspartame is a safe "sugar-free" alternative, either.
I don't think you're making a mountain out of a mole hill at all. I think you're attentive and alert to your little girl and how she's feeling.
Check out the ingredient lists on stuff you buy. I like to avoid stuff with chemicals and artificial flavors and colors. Lots of people say it costs more to buy "clean" food, but it really doesn't.
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