Are Artificial Food Colors Harmful to People?

When I investigated food safety information from the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), I discovered food dyes can cause everything from hyperactivity and allergic reactions to cancer. For food safety and public health reasons, this consumer watchdog (CSPI) is calling for the government to ban all food dyes. 

That's Why It's So Important to

Read all food labels. This is how to determine if ingredients in the product you are about to buy are safe and healthy. See FDA Food Guidance Regulation Document for more. Smart consumers look for labels that state, "This food contains no artificial colors, flavors, or preservative."

Petition government officials. Let them know you favor increased labeling regulations so labels list every ingredient on each label.

Speak Out to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Demand artific1al colors be banned from all food in the U.S. There is no health, nutrition, or other need for them. Sign This Petition to Tell-the-FDA-to-Ban-Harmful-Synthetic-Food-Dyes.

Stress the Fact that the FDA Needs to Conduct and Supervise Ingredient Testing by Independent Researchers. Currently, food manufacturers are within the law to test their own products.

Reach out to your U.S. Senators and Representatives, as well as State and Local Officials. Ask them to pass laws that require manufacturers to place warning labels on products that cause even one allergic reaction, behavioral issue, or is associated with any illness including gastrointestinal conditions and cancer.

Act Now. Contact food manufactures, and tell them you're going to stop buying their products, unless they voluntarily stop using artificial food dyes. Read my post at Obloggernewbie, Take-Action-with-Your-Food-Shopping-Dollars.

Select, Prepare, and Eat Real, Unprocessed Foods. Educate yourself about sound nutritional practices and food safety. It's a sure way to know what you're eating is nutritious and right for you.

Dana Angelo White writes Artificial Food Coloring: Good or Bad? 

Read Are You or Your Family Eating Toxic Food Dyes? from Dr. Joseph Mercola.

See Rachel Hennessey's article,  Living in Color: the Potential Dangers of Artificial Dyes.

Common Sense, observation, and scientific studies are proving the effects of eating artificially colored foods, snacks, soda, desserts, and the like result in impulsiveness, inattentiveness, and hyperactivity among young children. Many of these foods are also sugar, fat, or salt laden, and filled with empty calories.

One way to test this is to take stock of how you feel and act after Halloween. Notice how weird and hyperactive you and your kids act, if you've been munching on the unhealthy treats your kids collected. 

Take a look-see at Dr. Michael Greger's video and Website, if you're interested in improving your family's health. Then read Are-Artificial-Colors-Bad-for-You?

Eat foods that are minimally processed and snack on organic foods like those in the picture below. Take advantage of mother nature to add colorful eye appeal to meals, by eating fruits and veggies that get their vibrancy the natural way.

Are you currently eating foods that contain artificial food colors, and/or have taken steps to change family eating habits? 

Do you eat most meals at home and prepare real food snacks?

What will motivate you to look more closely at those labels? Please explain. 

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