quote:Research for the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and published in The Lancet has established the “deleterious effects” of taking a mixture of artifical extras that are added to drinks, sweets and processed foods. It has led the FSA to issue the advice to parents who believe their children to be hyperactive that they should cut out foods containing the E numbers analysed in the study.
Funny, i saw that on the BBC news this morning along with another report on a study that concluded that teenagers that binge drink are likely to run into health problems.
Next, a £500,000 2 year study concludes that children who don't sleep run the risk of feeling tired.
Surely it`s time there was a self-regulating body in the food industry to crack down on the use of all the extra rubbish that goes into processed foods...? (Duck...cries of `Nanny State!` But here`s a good cause for it if ever there was one, IMHO!)
And I would have to agree with you. We have interference where such interference is scarcely warranted. Here however ... But maybe that is the whole issue in a nutshell ... additives are money spinners.
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin
Please tell us something else we didn't know ...
Posted - 06/09/2007 : 09:33:46
