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Boron Elgar[_1_]

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