Part of eating better has included eliminating artificial dyes. This has always been a very hard one for us. From discussing with family that we need to read the ingredient list of foods to keeping our children from eating the normal snacks after the baseball games with all the other kids. This is a very tough one.
Eliminating dyes is made even harder when national organizations like the FDA side in favor of the food organizations (even just slightly). The beginning of April the FDA debated whether these dyes may have some potential health hazards or cause behavioral changes. They decided in a a very close vote that they didn't.
Below are some great resources that I have found while looking into their decision.
While looking doing the research I also found a great blog with a lot of resources. I am really looking forward to perusing the whole website some night when I get a chance :)
Now if I could only figure out how to talk with our extended family, grandparents and aunts and uncles about the additives in the food. It is hard for us as parents to tell the kids "No, you can't have the Kool-Aid with your cousin" or "No, don't eat those twizllers". As hard as it is for us, I am sure that it is awful for the kids to have to want those so badly when we are around others who appear to be enjoying them so much. With all the sugar and additives to make them look and taste delicious who wouldn't want to have one...
It's all about the education. We have not been able to make it for a whole week without some type of processed food being eaten. Maybe after we are able to go one week without we will see difference and that will be reason or proof for others - I hope I can say we have done it soon!
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