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Re: artifical food coloring - yellow #6

From: lorrie (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 2 Jul 2003 09:02:19 -0500 (CDT)

At Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Danielle wrote: >
>Quick question regarding food coloring. I was reading the what to
>expect when you are expecting book and they list dangerous artifical
>food colors. Listed as "UNSAFE in the amounts typically consumed or
>very poorly tested" was yellow #6. While preparing to pour myself a
>drink of Sunny D I noticed that it contained yellow #6....and paniced.
>After calming down I noticed that LOTS of other food I normally consume
>have yellow #6. How can be so unsafe when so many foods have it????
>Please advise.
>
>--
>thank you in advance

Thats a great question. The short answer is that the food additive lobby is very powerful and there is a lot of pressure on the FDA to approve additives that have been inadequately tested. In fact, in many cases, the consumers (we and our children) are in effect the guinea pigs. Products are removed from the market only after people begin getting sick from them. A great recent example is margarine. The government touted margarine as the ideal healful substitute for butter only to find now that the partially hydrogenated oils they are made from (also known as trans-fats) are much more dangerous than butter and are actually causing the heart disease they were supposed to help prevent. Companies are now quietly removing them from their products.

The bottom line is, why risk your health and the health of your children? Orange juice is a much better choice than Sunny D. which is almost entirely made up of sugar. Health food stores have additive-free versions of a lot of favorite junk foods, frozen foods, cereals etc. from Cheetos to Oreos. Not that these are good choices in foods when you are pregnant, but if you need your occasional fix, its a MUCH better choice.

>

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lorrie



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