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“Most parents think that food regulators wouldn’t permit additives if they were harmful. But regulators don’t require food additives to be tested for their effects on children’s behaviour or learning ability; don’t require food additives to be tested on children at all; don’t monitor effects after they have been approved; see effects as only ‘minor’ problems; and say that people who are affected by food additives can choose to avoid them by reading labels – even though a lot of food is not labelled and there is no requirement to tell consumers what’s in it.”
― Sue Dengate, Fed Up (Fully Revised and Updated): Understanding How Food Affects Your Child and What You Can Do About It

“Foods that say ‘NO MSG’ in big letters will often contain hydrolysed vegetable protein or similar as well as nucleotide flavour enhancers (see the ‘Ribo Rash’ factsheet at www.fedup.com.au).”
― Sue Dengate, Fed Up (Fully Revised and Updated): Understanding How Food Affects Your Child and What You Can Do About It

“commercial popcorn is likely to contain additives linked to asthma. At one cinema, an attendant explained how they add a premix powder. ‘I wouldn’t eat it,’ she said. ‘There’s a lot of powder, I don’t know what’s in it.’ From reading supermarket labels, I guess it could contain yellow colours – either artificial or annatto – and possible synthetic antioxidants in the vegetable oil, as well as diacetyl butter flavour.”
― Sue Dengate, Fed Up (Fully Revised and Updated): Understanding How Food Affects Your Child and What You Can Do About It

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― Sue Dengate, The Failsafe Cookbook (Updated Edition): Reducing Food Chemicals for Calm, Happy Families

“I have found that most people with ADHD will benefit from a change of diet. I have also seen families benefit from medication but I would prefer families to be offered a trial of diet first. Medication can seem to be a miracle in the short term, but after twelve months, or in high school – when it is more difficult to change diet – users often begin to notice that not all their problems have been solved. There are also side effects that can lock the users into what one psychologist called ‘the medication merry-go-round’, where people think the only answer to their problems will be more or a different medication.”
― Sue Dengate, Fed Up (Fully Revised and Updated): Understanding How Food Affects Your Child and What You Can Do About It

“Parents of well-behaved children were surprised to notice an improvement in schoolwork when switching to unpreserved bread.”
― Sue Dengate, Fed Up (Fully Revised and Updated): Understanding How Food Affects Your Child and What You Can Do About It