Nutritional Dangers Articles

Most conventionally-grown food is less nutritious than the organic equivalent, although there is some controversy about this.

There are many hundreds of additives in food, drinks and medicines.

Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) , a flavour enhancer, is extensively used in savoury foods, snacks, soups, sauces and meat products.

Sulphates are among the top food allergens. Symptoms include difficulty breathing, swelling of the throat, sneezing, hives, stomach pain, headaches, bed wetting, cough, fatigue, sinusitis

No studies have been done on the safety of Sucralose (Splenda) on children. No human trial on the safety of Sucralose (Splenda) has exceeded six months.

"... Any attempt to replace sugared beverages with aspartame-containing products will, in my opinion, have a devastating impact on the health of our children and adolescents."

**See also "Pesticides" under "Environmental Dangers".***

TV programme's dramatic evidence of

food additive effects

An experiment involving identical twin brothers (carried out on the British ITV1 programme Tonight With Trevor McDonald) provided dramatic evidence of the effects of additives in food. Christopher and Michael Parker, aged five, were put on separate diets for a fortnight. Michael's diet was completely free of food additives. After just two weeks Michael had become more assertive and calmer than his brother. He also outperformed him on IQ tests.

During the experiment Michael was banned from eating chocolate and sweets, fizzy drinks, flavoured crisps and caffeine. He was allowed additive-free goods such as ready salted crisps, fruit, banana chips and some yoghurts. In IQ tests before the experiment the twins each made the same mistakes and completed them in exactly the same time. Two weeks later, they conducted the same tests and Christopher had improved 10% but Michael had improved by 25%.

View source article http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2984519.stm

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