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Food Additives and Article Colouring
(Part 1)
Is your child one of these?
The quiet ones

• inattentive, dreamy or lethargic
• anxious, depressed or has panic attacks
• grizzly, miserable (in babies and young children)

The restless ones

• irritable, restless, easily distracted
• wakes at night or goes to bed like a jack-in-the-box

The defiant ones: oppositional defiance

• loses temper, argues with adults
• refuses requests, defies rules
• deliberately annoys others, blames others
• touchy or easily annoyed
• angry and resentful

Does your child or anyone in your family have?

• hives, eczema, dermatitis other itchy skin rashes
• headaches or migraines, tinnitus
• sensitive stomach, eg. Colic or reflux, recurrent mouth ulcers, toddler diarrhoea, bloating, stomach aches, bed wetting, sneaky poos
• asthma, glue ear, chronic stuffy or runny nose
• frequent colds, flu ear infections, tonsillitis

then it is possible your child is affected by common foods he or she eats every day.  Adults may be affected too.
Effects creep up
Some children go ballistic soon after eating food colours but what most people see is this:

• food chemicals can build up gradually, producing good days and bad days with no obvious cause.

When your child eats fast food or spaghetti, he or she might be irritable or have a bad day at school the next day or the day after.

Natural foods can affect children too.
Some children are more sensitive than others.
Not all children react to the same food chemicals.

• Don’t be quick to blame sugar – children will react more commonly to colours and flavours.

Researched by bestselling author Sue Dengate
Book – “The Failsafe Cookbook”
www.fedupwithfoodadditives.info

Watch for (Part 2) next week
“ What’s safe to eat”