On 23 Mar 2006 19:28:10 -0800, wrote:

Mark Thorson wrote:
wrote:

Mark Thorson wrote:
Like what? Why don't you quote the best evidence
they have that Red 40 is carcinogenic?

The evidence against Red 40 is pretty cut-and-dry.
It convinced a lot of European governments.

But you can't quote any of it?

Is the best evidence against Red 40
the unsupported assertions of a
scaremongering website?

You and the boron guy seem to be advocates of the additive-laden
food industry.

Yeah, I have raised three children on a diet of nothing but additives.
No foodstuffs allowed. It is the additives that got them on the Dean's
List, I'm sure. I cannot tell you how difficult it is to prepare
meals with nothing other than additives to work with, you dumb cluck.


Here's a peer-reviewed article where the authors
examined
various studies of food dyes and their impact on behavior. This study
is from Columbia University:

You idiot. If you do not have the slightest comprehension of what you
are reading, why bother to post it?

As I mentioned previously, you can find sub-sets people who are
sensitive to almost anything. YOU, on the other hand, claimed the
following:
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I have read of a couple studies showing that the banning of
artificial colorings from school cafeteria food resulted in the
reduction of behavioral problems among students in the
school. They seemed to concentrate more and seemed
less hyperactive.
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The study below refers very specifically to children with "hyperactive
syndrome," and is not a general population study.

Get a clue.

Schab DW, Trinh NH. Do artificial food colors promote hyperactivity in
children with hyperactive syndromes? A meta-analysis of double-blind
placebo-controlled trials.
J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2004 Dec;25(6):423-34. Columbia University,
Department of Psychiatry & The New York State Psychiatric Institute,
New York, New York 10032, USA. ABSTRACT:
Burgeoning estimates of the prevalence of childhood
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) raise the possibility
of a widespread risk factor. We seek to assess whether artificial food
colorings (AFCs) contribute to the behavioral symptomatology of
hyperactive syndromes. We searched ten electronic databases for
double-blind placebo-controlled trials evaluating the effects of AFCs.
Fifteen trials met the primary inclusion criteria. Meta-analytic
modeling determined the overall effect size of AFCs on hyperactivity to
be 0.283 (95% CI, 0.079 to 0.488), falling to 0.210 (95% CI, 0.007 to
0.414) when the smallest and lowest quality trials were excluded.
Trials screening for responsiveness before enrollment demonstrated the
greatest effects. Despite indications of publication bias and other
limitations, this study is consistent with accumulating evidence that
neurobehavioral toxicity may characterize a variety of widely
distributed chemicals. Improvement in the identification of responders
is required before strong clinical recommendations can be made.


Once again, think twice and thrice before feeding your kids Mountain
Dew soda, Sunkist or other orange-colored soda, Artificial
cherry-flavored soda, or bottled salad dressing containing the
infamous sequestering agent calcium disodium EDTA (a known
kidney toxin).

Think twice about posting to Usenet.Fewer people will think you have
terminal idiocy.

Boron