Food Coloring and ADHD?

Since the early 70's there has been a suspected link between artificial food coloring and the inability for children to concentrate. In 2005, Americans consumed 18.7 million pounds of artificial food dye. That is almost triple the 6.4 million pounds consumed in 1985. The more processing that we subject our food to the further it gets from the natural form that God designed for to give us nutrients. As an example, instead of eating fish that gives us essential fats to provide a healthy immune system and healthy brain tissue, it is chopped up and the healthy parts are either removed or destroyed by cooking it in high heat. Now instead of improving the health of the brain, we have fed the body altered fats that actually cause damage to the sensitive brain tissue.

Nutrition has been a much talked about topic in the popular media, but often that is all that it is "talk". I will attempt to take a look at some practical and maybe sometimes radical changes that your family can do to improve the health of every member.


To read an article on the topic of food coloring additives from the ICPA go here.