do you think the news / press about the hearings alone could compel more schools to take a stronger stand
against synthetic food dyes?
Not exact matches
All I know is that when I consider the struggle our bodies are up
against — air and water pollution,
synthetic and processed
foods, chemical toxins — I find myself clinging to every last study, report and trend that promotes beneficial health claims!
Distinctions between
synthetic and natural vitamin A have been absent in the extensive media coverage of this study — on the contrary, the newspaper reports contain implied warnings
against pregnant women eating liver, dairy products, meat and eggs, but none
against eating fabricated
foods like margarine and breakfast cereals to which
synthetic vitamin A is added — and one is moved to ask if there might be a hidden agenda in bringing these results before the public.
Though in 2011 the US FDA (
Food and Drug Administration) voted
against putting warning labels on
foods containing
synthetic dyes in the US, some American stores such as Whole
Foods do not sell products containing artificial dyes.
While studies already showed that people whose diets were rich in
foods high in vitamin C — typically 200 mg per day — have a lower risk of heart disease, certain cancers and other diseases, clinical trials testing isolated doses of
synthetic C have mostly failed to find any protective benefit
against disease.