What?s in your food? – A primer on artificial food additives.
In this series, we?ve been exploring the issue of the health effects of artificial food additives from a study on hyperactivity to food coloring.
In this part, we look at preservatives.
According to the FDA:
?In its broadest sense, a food additive is any substance added to food [...]
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Since the 1970s food additives have been under the radar of toxicologists, psychiatrists, nutritionists and environmental/public health watchdog groups. In the last decade however, with what seems to be a growing set of diagnoses of hyperactivity and other childhood behavioral and diet-related disorders, interest in food additives has increased. So has the research.
Among the latest [...]
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