http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/122/food-additives-cause-hyperactivity-in-children/ Vegetable Fruit & Herb Growing on my Allotment Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:05:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/122/food-additives-cause-hyperactivity-in-children/#comment-1114 John Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:29:47 +0000 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/122/food-additives-cause-hyperactivity-in-children/#comment-1114 Hi James I can understand them using a preservative but I really don't think there's any justification for colourings with known side effects, especially in foods and drinks aimed at children. I think giving a child a drug (using smarties' additives as a drug) is pretty poor. Funny how things run, after I posted this I opened the newspaper to find a double page on the subject! Perhaps this time they'll ban the blessed things. Hi James
I can understand them using a preservative but I really don’t think there’s any justification for colourings with known side effects, especially in foods and drinks aimed at children.
I think giving a child a drug (using smarties’ additives as a drug) is pretty poor.
Funny how things run, after I posted this I opened the newspaper to find a double page on the subject! Perhaps this time they’ll ban the blessed things.

]]> http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/122/food-additives-cause-hyperactivity-in-children/#comment-1113 james dougan Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:45:48 +0000 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/122/food-additives-cause-hyperactivity-in-children/#comment-1113 Hi, regarding additives, I have Crohn's disease and was told to avoid sodium benzonate. I had already stopped drinking fizzy drinks but still found my tongue would swell up but couldn't figure out why. It seems sodium benzonate is commonly used in a variety of food & drink as it's a preservative. A friend when trying to ween his young son off midday naps would give him a tube of smarties which would send him hyperactive. Hi, regarding additives, I have Crohn’s disease and was told to avoid sodium benzonate. I had already stopped drinking fizzy drinks but still found my tongue would swell up but couldn’t figure out why. It seems sodium benzonate is commonly used in a variety of food & drink as it’s a preservative. A friend when trying to ween his young son off midday naps would give him a tube of smarties which would send him hyperactive.

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