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Re: artifical food coloring - yellow #6

From: Abby (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 2 Jul 2003 09:22:05 -0500 (CDT)

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At Wed, 2 Jul 2003, lorrie wrote: >
>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.
>
>--
>lorrie

>It's not usually necessary to go out of your way to a health store. Your regular supermarket contains plenty of unprocessed foods. Always read labels. I'm amazed that the margarine story is only now being told. I learned about this over 20 years ago in my college nutrition classes. But as you say, those food lobbyists yield lots of clout.

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