Health

Forget Sugar, Doctor Screams for FDA Regulation of Food Coloring

Boston and Washington, D.C. have recently waged war on sugary drinks. Now, one prominent physician is beginning a battle against another edible evil: food coloring.

On yesterday’s episode of the daytime, Dr. Phil spin-off “The Doctors,” Dr. Travis Stork became visible flustered while discussing how ADHD and cancer can be traced back to the dye being used to color food such as jelly beans.

The problem, Stork says, is that the food coloring is made with “petro-chemicals“ and ”coal tar.”

When another doctor jokingly points out that it’s just food coloring, Stork quips, “It’s just ADHD. It’s just cancer.”

So what kind of science do the good doctors provide? “There are several studies showing that kids that take food coloring … they have higher rates of ADHD,” says Stork’s colleague Dr. Jim Sears. Dr. Jim never elaborates on the studies but offers some advice to parents: “If you child is having a problem in school … look at what they’re eating.”

So what is the whole point of the segment? You might have guessed by now. “These things are not good for us,” Stork says, and “how the FDA allows these in so many of our foods, drives me crazy.” Another doctor, Dr. Drew Ordon, reiterates the message: “The data is there showing that it has contributed to ADHD and things like that, yet the FDA leaves it there”:

The problem is that the FDA does currently regulate food dye:

The Food and Drug Act in 1906 established a voluntary certification that regulated the coloring added to food by manufacturers. The Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938 further regulated what color enhancers went into any food, drugs or cosmetics. In 1960 a color additive had to be on the Food and Drug Administration’s approved list to be used. In 1990 the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act required any food coloring must be listed on the label by its common name. All new colors must be tested and approved by petition the FDA. When added to the list, the colors may be restricted as to what food or products they are added to.

Apparently, that’s not enough. And in light of what Meredith wrote last week, we shouldn’t be too surprised if the FDA obliges to more regulation: “[N]ew government regulatory crackdowns on certain foods and beverages across the country are forcibly shaping new dietary habits for many Americans.”

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  • 1BECK HAPPY WARRIOR
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 1:02pm

    Oddly enough at the instance of one of my nieces a few years back I tried all natural vegetables – I love vegetables. After about 3 days I broke out in red hot rashes, really hot and red, all over my body, put some cool rags on them until I could get to the doctor. I was given medication and in a few days it was gone. I had not eaten anything differently other than the natural veggies. I do not go to the natural section anymore. I do eat fresh vegetables (which some consider all natural but I don’t) when I can get good ones but I stay clear of the all natural section. Point is since I know it I don’t do it. We should all have the right to regulate ourselves and eat what we want.

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  • Mr.Nick
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 1:02pm

    Oh, I got it. Regulate businesses out of business via regulation of their products then tell the public that its “for their own good,” then when jobs become scarce throw those seeking jobs some table scraps explaining you’re the “good guy that cares and who is looking out for you” while demonizing the company that was regulated to extinction as “greedy capitalists that couldn’t manage them selves property.”

    If you did that you could destroy capitalism and get EVERYONE dependent on government now couldn’t you?? now that would be communism now wouldn’t it?? that really depends how “gracious” our government actually is – if they allow you to keep your property or not.

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  • AngryTexanFromAmarillo
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 1:00pm

    2 years ago one of my wife’s friends son was diagnosed with ADD/ADHD. they wanted to put him on meds for this….THANK GOD my wife’s friend listened to normal thinking people and began …dun dun duh!!!! spanking her son for his behavior. and not giving him drugs…guess what. with in a few months his problems at school ended. He graduated last year as salutatorian of his high school. all with out any drugs. the key here is Discipline, don’t put kids on drugs for being kids. They are pint sized balls of pure energy and they need to release that energy by playing and having fun. not by giving them drugs.

    Funny how the government preaches all the time about drug abuse and how its hurting a large percentage of our country, yet they are the ones turning them into drug addicts from the day they start kindergarten because poor little billy is being disruptive in class because HIS parents don’t discipline him at home. SPARE the rod and you SPOIL the child.

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  • Republic
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 12:52pm

    If you remove the food coloring and turn out the lights…it tastes the same. I suppose I could live without the visual effects. My motto, “eat to live; not live to eat”.

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  • MrYouthPastor
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 12:01pm

    I hear you all and I agree with several. You are right, we don’t need the government to dictate everything to us, but seriously.. you don’t want anyone making sure that places that package your food are clean? If we all bought locally, if we grew our own food, make good homeade meals.. then.. we wouldn’t need government regulation.. BUT as soon as you buy from walmart.. you‘ll need someone to make sure they didn’t piss in the food before you got it.. there has to be rules.. maybe we could all use a little more common sense in our blogs.. lets not be as flippant as the left extremist and just throw emotional nonsense into the blog-realm.

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    • Christi
      Posted on October 1, 2010 at 12:21pm

      I find your post somewhat ironic. You call for us to use more common sense in our blogs, ask that we be less flippant than the left extremist and eschew emotional nonsense…immediately after having suggested the good people who work at Wal*Mart would piss in our food!

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  • skonspore
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 12:00pm

    I laugh with you except for the fact that when I eat yellow dye # 5 & 6 I get an acute pancreatis attach. Ever have one of those? Not fun, and all those chemicals in foods makes my Lyme Disease go insane. Do you not think there is a connection to autism, chronic asthma, multi autoimmune diseases and all these other unexplained illnesses.

    Though this could very well be Obama’s way to get rid of folks right of him…………………..Would nit surprise me one bit. But the FDA like all other Gov’t agencies are only in it for the money, therefore posion if paid the right $$$ would be deemed safe!!!

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    • Rowgue
      Posted on October 1, 2010 at 12:58pm

      It’s not about it being deemed safe. There are already poisons that people knowingly ingest. Alcohol, Tobacco etc. The point is it‘s not the government’s job to tell us what we can or can’t eat.

      Should they inform consumers of the risks of a prodcut? Sure. But the regulation is getting ridiculous. Especially when these quacks use these anecdotal studies that you never actually see, they just tell you they exist. And you can’t see for yourself whether the studies were actually even done let alone if they were done correctly. Show me the study data, let me see that it was a double blind study, that the sample size was sufficient to draw meaningful conclusions from, that a control group was accounted for, that the variable being tested was sufficiently isolated as to eliminate other possible influences. A guy sitting on a stage and saying “Studies have shown links to cancer” is completely useless tripe.

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  • Okpulot Taha
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:34am

    Problem with a lot of kids today is they do not eat enough dirt, do not play in mule manure, do not have their blood sucked out by ticks and chiggers nor huge mosquitoes. Problem with kids is they do not come down with ringworm and cat scratch fever. Kids are less healthy today because of not having piddled their overalls being frightened by a water moccasin trying to put the bite on them, nor having pooped their overalls after being kicked clean across a barnyard by an ornery mule.

    Kids are sickly today because they never squirt raw milk into their mouths straight from a cow’s teat. Kids today do not enjoy this exercise of being chased around a pasture by an angry bull. Kids are not inoculated against disease through a fat hog biting them trying to get to pig slop in a bucket.

    Kids do not develop immunities from barefoot stomping juicy cow patties spread around on a field for fertilizer nor do kids benefit from being injected with poison by mad hornets hiding in berry bushes.

    Very critical to good health, few babies enjoy these benefits of suckling their mothers’ breasts.

    Most often, kids are sickly from being sheltered and pampered by our modern sickly sissified society.

    Okpulot Taha
    Choctaw Nation

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    • Christi
      Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:54am

      There is much truth in what you say! Studies have shown for example that children raised with pets from infancy have fewer allergies. The process of vaccination simply exposes our immune systems to a toxin so our bodies will learn to fight it. I think mud pies accomplish almost the same thing!

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    • Okpulot Taha
      Posted on October 1, 2010 at 12:24pm

      CHRISTI is in tune with Mother Nature, “There is much truth in what you say! Studies have shown for example that children raised with pets from infancy have fewer allergies.”

      Yep. This is the “Bubble Boy” syndrome. These days children are so sheltered from literally everything in life, those children end up constantly sick later in childhood, and senseless.

      From birth to about age ten, children need to be exposed to Mother Nature in every way possible. This is an age when children develop the strongest and best immunities to many maladies. After age ten, there about, children do not develop immunities as vigorously as when younger. This is the intent of Mother Nature; hit children with everything to either make them stronger or weaker. This is survival of the fittest.

      You write of mud pies, yes, kids need to not only make mud pies, children need to eat mud pies!

      During my childhood, we were eaten alive by ticks, chiggers and mosquitoes. This is critical to good health to be blood sucked by one of those bugs. Each one of those blood suckers feed on all kinds of animals; birds, squirrels, coyotes, mules and cows along with many others. A blood sucker, such as a mosquito, injects a child with a disease, this child instantly develops an immunity to this disease or become sick. Most have no adverse reaction other than itching and a bite sore. Others become sick but survive and develop immunity. A few might die.

      This is the way of Mother Nature; survival of the fittest.

      Children need to eat dirt, need to be bit by bugs, need to be kicked by a mule. Eating dirt and being bug bit develops immunities. Being kicked by a mule teaches some common sense!

      Rural farm children are typically more healthy than urban city children. There is an obvious and good reason for this; farm children do not live inside a sterile bubble, and farm kids know not to walk around behind an ornery mule!

      Cute story. Grandpa plows behind our mule to turn up goober peas (peanuts) from under dirt. We kids are tasked to “pick off” peanuts and bag. Grandpa cannot see us with his being busy plowing. We kids eat peanuts, dirt and all, until our bellies bloat. Later in life, none of us suffer an allergy to peanut butter nor other peanut products.

      This is the way of Mother Nature.

      Okpulot Taha
      Choctaw Nation

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  • TrulyJen
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:54am

    The FDA is so screwed up and corrupt. They certainly don’t need more control over anything,

    But it’s people like these docs on TV that bring attention to the links between food coloring and ADHD.

    Take your kid off of foods with food coloring. If he improves, good, keep him off. Why does anyone need a multi-million dollar study to put two and two together?

    Fight for your right to eat that junk, but it’s nice to find out that your quality of life will improve when you eat the right food….if you want to…but I’m all for less regulations.

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  • DaddyKev
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:45am

    Weird, I just heard on the news the other day that ADHD was hereditary.

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  • Unbelievable
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:44am

    I am no where near saying that the FDA or any government agency should be able to tell us what to eat. I’m a firm believer in LEAVE MY FRIES ALONE!!! But there is truth to artifical food colors, artifical flavors and preservatives being a problem with kids (and adults). I would have never thought it but my child is a perfect example. He has allergic reactions to vanillin (artifical vanilla flavor), within minutes of eating something with vanillin in it he goes beserk, he turns from a normal happy kid into a monster!

    However I have NEVER thought it was the governments job to tell us how to deal with it. We take it upon ourselves to avoid it. Just like someone that is allergic to grass, they avoid going outside and rolling around in the yard. What’s the government going to do ban grass because some have allergic reactions to it?

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  • MikeinIdaho
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:37am

    Thank you Nanny State person! Peanut butter, real butter, fats, triglycerides, sugar, coffee, caffeine, blah blah blah! Oh and don’t forget global warming, global cooling, the hole in the ozone and ultraviolet rays, oh my! WE‘RE ALL GONNA’ DIE! Oh the humanty! Oh the horror!
    He is correct about one thing, though, and that is we ARE all going to die someday of something. I just can’t figure out how humainty has lasted this long! We should have all been wiped aout about 9,999 years ago! What a crock!

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  • helgothjb
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:21am

    The FDA was bought off long ago. Money is what gets thing approved. If you knew how aspertame was approved you’d never touch the stuff. The same goes for a multitute of other things. Plus, things that would be beneficial are denied because fo funding. It is typical government bureaucracy. Oh, and where is the authority given for the FDA in the constitution?

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  • Okpulot Taha
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 9:56am

    * raises and waves her hand *

    I have a question! I have a question!

    Why are those folks up there in this video wearing doctor outfits? Something ain’t right.

    Okpulot Taha
    Choctaw Nation

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    • democratgirl
      Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:01am

      It makes them look credible. Remember Obama and his trying to convince Americans that National Healthcare was supported by doctors when he got a room full of them dressed at doctors? Later, we found out they weren’t all true medically-licensed doctors?????? Oh, duh. Look at the station this is on. HERE’S YOUR SIGN.

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    • Okpulot Taha
      Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:21am

      DEMOCRAT GIRL observes, “It makes them look credible. Remember Obama and his trying to convince Americans that National Healthcare was supported by doctors when he got a room full of them….”

      Yes, ma’am, I surely do. The very instant I spied Obama surrounded by people wearing white lab coats I thought, “Obama is lying through his teeth.” This wearing costumes while lying is a very old trick, a false facade thousands of years old.

      Message I receive from this trick is, “Americans are ignorant gullible gits who will believe anything.”

      Okpulot Taha
      Choctaw Nation

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    • Okpulot Taha
      Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:06am

      Reminds me of almost thirty years back. My husband and I work our way from Oklahoma to California, barely been out here in La La Land for a year. Our girl is still making peanut butter in her diapers, still blowing bubbles, spraying spittle, dripping drool and giggling.

      My husband makes me mad and we are poor, very poor. I can no longer remember what he did to make me mad but I remember being poor. He is off at his construction job, I am at home, mad, sitting there in our cheesy apartment on the poor side of town, sitting there thinking revenge.

      Decide to papoose our girl and walk to a grocery couple miles away with her strapped on my back. We shop, I have four dollars budgeted for food, enough for a loaf of bread and cheap meat to make sandwiches for my boy who is the best husband and best father a couple of girls could ever have.

      Against my better judgment I decide to spend a quarter on a tiny bottle of red food dye. This is a quarter we truly could not afford to spend.

      Later in the day, hour or so before a factory whistle blows quitting time, I bathe our girl in our kitchen sink. I love her so, treat her like a little princess, and I want her to look good and smell good for her loving father who always rushes home to see her before even taking notice of me. After her bath I mix up cooking corn oil and red food dye then give our baby girl a delicate and loving rub down which she loves, makes her giggle. When done, she is the prettiest little bright red injun girl you could ever see.

      Daddy comes home from a hard day at work, rushes right to his pride and joy, our little baby girl. He looks and looks, then wigs out, “She has a fever! She is sick! Come on, we have to take her to a hospital right now!” Her daddy is in an absolute panic.

      “Relax, white boy, she is just turning red like her momma.” He is still in a hair tugging panic, “What?” I explain, “Around a year old, Indian babies begin to turn bright red. She will be bright red like this for years, probably until she is ten or so.” My darling husband just about has tears in his eyes, he is fit to be tied, “No! No! She is sick, she has a fever! She needs a doctor right now!”

      “She is just fine, nothing wrong with her. She is going through her wilding time.” I convince him this is her time of life when she begins becoming wild, savage and turns red like all Indians do. Think I remember what made me mad, his calling me a savage night before while we are in bed doing the wild thing. “Look, she is not sick!” Hold her up, no diaper, “See, her butt is just as lily white as your white boy butt and cool to the touch.”

      Finally dawns on him something ain’t right. Then he goes savage on me. Never seen the boy so darn mad, but he does eventually start laughing, starts telling me how much he loves the two of us and there is no man alive who could love us more than our girl’s daddy.

      You can convince people of just about anything with the right stage props and politics in America today ain’t nothing but stage props and lousy actors.

      Humors me to know so many Americans are so very gullible.

      Okpulot Taha
      Choctaw Nation

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  • tobywil2
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 9:04am

    Do you still believe that the Bureaucracy champions the “general welfare” of our citizens instead to the “special interest”?

    When the Bureaucrat replaces the “free market” with a regulation, we all lose. Every regulation gives a political crony a windfall at the expense of the general population. Printing money is not the only cause of inflation!

    THE DEVASTATING AFFECT OF THE BUREAUCRACY:

    Rules and regulations created and enforced by the “Fourth Branch of Government” (the bureaucracy) that restrict innovation, inhibit the creation of wealth and provide advantages to the “technologically challenged” are the root cause of our problems. Inflation, credit and failure of financial institutions are just the symptoms, an attempt to cover up the failure of “disastrous centralized planning.”

    Money manipulation is simply a method of misappropriation of wealth. Wealth must be created before it can be misappropriated and the Bureaucracy inhibits the creation of wealth.

    Our problems started when the bureaucracy obtained significant power during Roosevelt’s (T) Administration. About 10 years later the Fed Was created and it’s been downhill every since.

    Chapter 8 (The Bureaucracy – ICC) of “21st Century Common Sense” addresses this point in detail, including a description of the “Iron Triangle” (control of the bureaucracy by special interest) and an enlighten quote by Woodrow Wilson highlighting the capture of the Bureaucracy by “special interest.”

    The bibliography on my website allows you to visit the websites used for the book’s research just by “control-clicking” on the website address.

    http://commonsense21c.com/

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  • truthncharity
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 8:57am

    Everyone walks around with cancer, it’s when your body stops recognizing these abhorrent cells that they “manifest” into the disease.

    These “well meaning” regulators and elites, who are smarter than your average bear, will not lie down willingly or easily. Get your boots off our necks, leave us to our freedom and we’ll be fine without you.

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  • Sandy
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 8:51am

    THANK YOU DOCTOR’S! I teach martial arts and have been educating parents for years about the affects of Red dye #40 in their child’s diet. It causes many types of behaviors in children and adults. It depends on the persons body chemistry as to the side affects they may have. Some lose focus, some have irrational behaviors, some have emotional meltdowns. It is a horrible thing being put in our foods.

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    • Mom of 4 Future Presidents
      Posted on October 1, 2010 at 9:23pm

      Hey Sandy, It’s Becky from Karate. I agree with you. I notice a big difference in the boys when red dye is not in their system.

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  • Slayer
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 8:51am

    More Libs screaming for more governmental control. Which means less rights and more taxes. If Conservatives were in power, many of these huge government agencies would be lessened or eradicated. A great reason to vote Conservative. Not Republican, Conservative.

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    • Sandy
      Posted on October 1, 2010 at 8:58am

      I’m a conservative. What he is saying is so true. Things are put in our foods that they will not allow in other countries. I educate parents all the time about Red dye #40. I have seen the positive outcome from parents taking it from their child’s diet. It’s bad stuff.

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  • dconnor11
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 8:49am

    I am over 40 years old, ate a truck load of Jello, drank a swimming pool of Kool-Aid (before the socialist spiked it!) and dyed candy; a whole lot and still do! Do I have ADHD or cancer, NO. I am almost positive that if the young and very young people of this country spent a lot more time outside enjoying the spendor that GOD has created and a lot less time twitching in front of a video screen from video games and movies, their minds would be more at peace and not so random. I am VERY conservative father of two and HATE the death grip I see these video games have over our youth and once they get a decent mobile phone, the twitching is more about how many text messages you can send or receive. Take Junior away from the video screens and the amount of electrons they are exposed to may also help slow any “cancer-like” ailments!

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  • Justin.M.DeLong
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 8:45am

    Ok. I’m the first to say that we have the right to eat whatever we want. We are free. But my family has chosen to go all natural when it comes to food. We discovered about two years ago that my youngest daughter was allergic to food dyes. She even gets to the point where she stops breathing if she were to ingest food with artificial color. They didn’t start to put artificial color in food until the early 1900s and that was just to market the food. Not for flavor. It was all about getting people to buy their stuff. Food can be made with all natural colors that look just as good as the artificial junk. Ok, I’ll get off my soapbox now. I just hope that you all realize that there are people out here that are patriots that do care about the food we eat because for some it just might kill them.

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    • AngryTexanFromAmarillo
      Posted on October 1, 2010 at 9:26am

      I understand your concerns because my son has several food allergies, but see We (my wife and I ) know now what he can and can’t have so WE regulate his intake simple as that, I don‘t need the Federal government to tell me or anyone else what he can and can’t have, I don’t want new laws put in place to make sure he never has to worry. He’s allergic to Corn of all things, and let me tell you this, try going to the grocery store and finding a loaf of bread that doesn’t contain corn starch or corn syrup. Anyway like I said my wife and I know what he can have so we take care of it.

      All these cancer studies I think for the most part are stupid. I mean for God sakes they say people who eat red meat have higher chance of getting cancer, people who drink bottled water have higher chances of getting cancer. ( because of something in the plastic.) and my own personal study 98% of people who get cancer wear shoes so lets ban all shoes, and this just in!!!! 100% of people who have cancer breath AIR! OMG we must put a stop to this air thing, its the only factor everyone who gets cancer has in common, IT MUST BE AIR.!

      See how stupid there so called studies sound when you reword it a little.

      My mom is going through chemo right now because of breast cancer. She has been a health food nut since before I was born which was roughly 30 years ago. at the same time my 94 year old grand father smokes at least 2 packs a day and drinks whiskey like its water and no signs of cancer worst health problem he has is a messed up hip from a car accident (no didn’t involve drinking) lol

      So I guess my over all point is, If you’re going to get cancer, you’re going to get it regardless. I think its just in our genes.

      People act like cancer is a new disease and people have only been dieing from it in the recent past,
      well they have found proof of Egyptian mummies that died of cancer along with others around the world. So once again, If your going to get cancer your going to get it, I don’t care if you sit in a dark room on a towel made of 100% organic cotton naked drinking purified spring water your whole life, if its in your genes there is a chance you’ll get.

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    • alpha_grower
      Posted on October 1, 2010 at 9:46am

      I just read a response from somebody who said “They made the decision to go all natural…”. Good for you, you made the decision. Yet you think the government should tell the rest of us what is good and not good for us? Over the years there have been many “studies” on various items that we ingest and it depends on the mindset at the time whether they are harmful or beneficial. The main thing is, I want to decide whether I ingest these items or not. I do not need a government entity telling me what I can or cannot ingest. Will the next thing be you cannot drive a car that was made in America because the ones made in Japan are safer? And you cannot buy clothes from KMart because there was a study that found the clothes sold in WalMart are cheaper? Where does it end?

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    • Justin.M.DeLong
      Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:32am

      I agree that I do not want the Federal Government to tell us what we can or can not do. That has never been a question in my mind. We are all adults and can decide what’s best for us. But, I also believe that the government is there to provide for the common defense of it’s citizens. I know that this mainly pertains to the defense of our country, but I also think that if the manufacturers are putting things into our food supply that will harm us then that is something that the government can and should stop. Also, it is our responsibility as citizens to watch what we eat to make sure we do not harm ourselves or our children. It’s called being mature. We can‘t and shouldn’t rely on the government to do anything. The government is only out for one person and that is the government.

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    • 912always
      Posted on October 1, 2010 at 4:22pm

      I agree with you, but I am dead set against it not being my choice. Kick the government out and go back to making most of your food in your own kitchen and we will all be better off.

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  • normbal
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 8:39am

    And everyone just KNOWS mercury causes autism. Association isn’t causation, but those are big words for the likes of Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carey. Maybe, just maybe, what’s causing ADD/ADHD is the progressively short attentions we demand of our children through television programming, by commercials, facebook-type social interactions, game-boys/play stations and other video games. We expect less, we get less. We parent less, less discipline, less involvement with curricula, lowering the bar for success at every grade, and our kids are Obama voters by the time they graduate from school. Food dyes? Really? And life starts with parthenogenesis.

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  • slolsen
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 8:35am

    Stop regulating what I and others eat!!! It is our choice what we eat we don’t need a food police in our lives anymore. You can get cancer even if you eat the healthiest diet on the planet. Get a life and leave mine alone.

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  • norway1516
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 8:26am

    lol ironcowboy, ive heard this from a few people now but ive seen nothing when it comes to studys so I would like to see something to back this up.

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  • Areyoukiddingme
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 8:20am

    Man i could swim in that pile of Jelly belly’s….. MMMMM

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  • ironcowboy
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 8:16am

    Man…once the left gets done with my M&Ms, they will all be Albinos. Except then I’ll be accused of being a damn racists for having only white ones.

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    • Fitz1973
      Posted on October 1, 2010 at 8:26am

      So true! And then Hersey will be sued by Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

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    • norway1516
      Posted on October 1, 2010 at 8:28am

      lol Ironcowboy! ive heard this mentioned quite a bit but have yet to see a credible study to back it up…so where is the proof of this?

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    • w4jle
      Posted on October 1, 2010 at 12:29pm

      As one who is in his 7th decade of life, I remember when these same enlightened scientists claimed polio was caused by ice cream. Various charts, data, pictures with circles and arrows on the back showed that polio increased when ice creme consumption increased. Case closed ice creme caused polio. These folks are great at taking two unrelated things and arriving at a scientific conclusion that is full of bovine excrement. Sorta like man made global warming.
      The result was I was a ticked off kid with no ice creme until Jonas Salk restored sanity to a kids world and the ice creme trucks were once again able to ply their wares to the tune of “pop goes the weasel”

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    • FSUDAVE
      Posted on October 1, 2010 at 12:54pm

      So the dye in MM’s are bad for us and chocolate is bad for us, so a good alternative? Tofu pellets, mmm mmm mmm good. What should we have to drink with it? Soda? Try and buy one on city or state property. How about water? Sure as long as it isn’t bottled, Do you know the damage these do to the environment? After eating you tofu pellets and water from spigot, maybe you’d like a cigarette. Better hope you don’t live in NYC, Bloomberg doesn’t want you even smoking outside.

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    • icesk8rgirl96
      Posted on October 1, 2010 at 2:39pm

      So true IronMan! Plus I think Glenn would flip if his m&m’s were taken away…

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    • TruthLover
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 12:27am

      No – ask Mars to make your m&m’s with the same colorings they use in Europe. You’ll never know the difference, but you’ll live a little longer. Unless you eat them by the pound, which is a different problem.

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  • LLATPOH
    Posted on October 1, 2010 at 8:12am

    Another illustration of harms to change the status quo.

    Do you know that anyone who has ever had cancer in America has eaten some sort of food? Do you also know that anyone who has ever suffered from a car accident/pneumonia/heart attack/mosquito bite/stroke/death has eaten some sort of food at least once in their life?

    My vote is to go over that shady stuff we call food and ban the living crap out of it. It’s DANGEROUS!

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    • CoFX
      Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:03am

      Studies have confirmed that everyone who ate pickles in 1895 has since passed away. The FDA needs to be looking into that disturbing trend.

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    • CoFX
      Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:08am

      ADHD linked to candy that uses food coloring? Hmmm… anyone take into account that a lack of focus and uncontrollable energy levels may be linked to, I don’t know, the SUGAR in candy? lol

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    • momoftwochildren
      Posted on October 1, 2010 at 2:03pm

      what about immunizations? Could it be possible these shots may contain something in them that causes ADHD or a learning disbaility in some cases?

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    • Promotefreedom
      Posted on October 2, 2010 at 10:48am

      The FDA is a big government bureaucracy. They get it wrong most of the time.
      FDA is part of the Cass Sunstein agenda to “nudge” people into food choices that only include what certain bureaucrats (chosen doctors) consider “good” choices.
      Like your eating habits controlled by the government?

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    • TruthLover
      Posted on October 3, 2010 at 12:25am

      You’re missing the point. Food colorings like Red 40 are illegal in every developed country except the USA. If candy and food makers want to sell the same product in France, or Canada, or Russia, they have to use a different coloring agent – and they DO. Why is it allowed here? It’s not a matter of too much government involvement, but a matter of our established government agencies not doing their job.

      There’s nothing wrong with HAVING an FDA. There’s something wrong with allowing it to be corrupt and inept.

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