What's In That? How Food Affects Your Behavior

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sweetpocahontis — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:00:03 GMT

First post for me too!

My son was one of the children involved with the study in the UK into food colourants and sodium benzonate. Before that I'd thought that he had a pretty good diet, but seeing the change in him during the study made me realise that it wasn't good enough and since then I've worked very hard to give him the very best diet I can.

I am STAGGERED that the same advise to parents in the US is not given as the advise that we received in the UK.

Michelle, your story moved me to tears, I'm so happy for you that you found a way out.

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lareinarina — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:53:29 GMT

I can't help but wonder why school districts would continue to offer such crap-quality foods. I know they are trying to save money, but how could anyone think it's worth the numerous behavioral problems and the low test scores. We'd all do ourselves a favor to get them to change. The school district my children attend is a low-income one. All children are offerred free lunch - you can only imagine what the classrooms are like after breakfast and after lunch. Of course, my children take lunch everyday, but most families have no choice but to take the freebe. I'd like to get a collaborative effort together to take the school district on. Does anyone have any experience or ideas with this?

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OnlyTruth — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:22:36 GMT

Another avenue to pursue once you've conquered the food arena is your environment. I did an experiment with my youngest once. He would do his math (Saxon math) first thing every morning while his mind was fresh. I noticed that he often made silly errors (he was very good in math). I set up a test. Each morning I played a different composer while he did his math - Beethoven, Haydn, Phil Keaggy(instrumental), Mozart,etc. I did this for an entire semester.

At the end of the semester I checked the results. Whenever Mozart was featured he had no errors whatsoever out of the daily 30 problems. The next best was the Phil Keaggy instrumentals. What does this say about our "sound" environment? How are we being affected every day by the noises around us. We ought to at least try to produce a pleasant "soundscape" in our homes for ourselves and our children.

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HealthToAll — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:14:16 GMT

I have enjoyed the comments as well as the article. Our Mom and 3 of us kids have hypoglocemia which we found after reaching adulthood. Dessert was a Sunday occasion.

Three of us kids are now in our 80's and two on no prescription drugs, one now in Senior Care I talk to on phone and can tell he is now. They say for dementia, but personal observation of my mom and some freinds in senior care; some antibiotics and drugs they give can make this speed up the problem, causing them to do things out of their character; people need to beware of this. When it happened to mom I could not find out the name of the medicine, only doctors orders. I told the nurse to have the doctor call me. I told the doctor that my mom was not like that when she went into the hospital & she better not be like that when she left. Her mind had no more problems and clear until the end of her life.

Change only comes when enough people speak up and give their reasons why, lawmakers will listen. In Oklahoma the hospital staff can now tell you what you are taking and you have the option to take the medicines or not. If you are not acquainted with the book "Worst Pill Best Pill" that doctors are to refer to but many times too busy; get a copy - it tells the side affects and which to avoid, they are now starting a newletter.

I have learned the sprays used on yards contaminate garden foods so cause stomach problem, heart problems, cancer and brain disfunction slowing the body down. It seems worse since the cell phone towers have gone up. The sprays are giving me my biggest health challenges now. Red splotches on hands and feet even through heavy gloves and shoes lasted all year if I worked outside. It seeps into our homes. Gave me flu like symptoms where the cough would not respond or go away for 5 weeks. News said 2 boys 8 years old died & a baby from flu like symptoms that year. Please protect your family by not spraying & help make a change. Eatantioxidant foods fight free radical damage Hilda

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Loveriot — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:57:28 GMT

I'm totally stunned by the MSG on fresh produce!!! I hate news like this because it makes me feel like no matter what I do, I'm screwed and can't possibly eat right! I do my damndest to eat fresh and avoid processsed foods and here I find out that MSG is sprayed on my friggin' salad!

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Shellyct — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:32:04 GMT

Hi Loricwest -- yes we have made our own Ice cream, mostly for fun. We are a family of four on basically one income. I've been home with the kids for 10 years, and working part time. The cost of groceries has skyrocketed, so I've had to become quite frugal with our budget out of necessity, unfortunately. Breyers ice cream goes on sale often for $1.99 to $2.50 for 1/2 gallon (its normally $5.99 here). So I stock up when its one sale (we have a big chest freezer -- it probably costs more to run the darned thing, lol!) A half gallon of milk is $4.69, and never goes on sale, not to mention adding in a bit of sugar, the vanilla, and any other goodies you want to add it. We usually make ice cream when we're camping though, the kids love it, and it is very yummy!

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jeffbritney1 — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:20:39 GMT

Did anyone else catch the part about cows milk? "...that infant formula contained a dose of glutamate (the toxic ingredient in MSG) in the form of caseinate (cow’s milk protein) that can produce the very same brain injury seen in experimental animals." When I looked up went to the Blaylock article it states that one of the problems with the South Beach Diet is that it promotes high dairy consumption, "But high dairy consumption has been shown toincrease prostate cancer risk. This can be reduced bysupplementation with vitamin D3, but among foods, dairy products have the highest association with cancer risk — probably because of the carcinogenic viruses found in the cow’s milk." I do not drink cows milk for health reasons even though I know Dr. Mercola is a big promoter of it when raw. Does anyone know if this raw cows milk also contains these viruses?

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sadah — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:40:41 GMT

Thanks Shellyct! Your info is great. Isin't it great to live out in the country where you can grow and raise so much of your own. I grew up in the country but right now we are living in a small town. We do get organic eggs and I raise a garden...not a huge one but I do have one. Not a lot of room to plant as much as I would like for canning/freezing.

You gave me a great start on how to begin changing our shopping.

sadah

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Sam J — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:33:43 GMT

It's simple people. Eat what nature intended, the paleolithic diet will take care of this.

We've obviously lost our survival instinct, now our instinct has turned to desire, sexually and taste wise. Which is why we desire sex so much, and why we desire things that are so tasty. STOP.

Cut out: Gluten (breads, pasta, some rice, cereals) - Casein (all cows milks products, replace with GOATS milk) - Soya - Corn - Monosodium Glutamate - Aspartame - Acesulfame K - Sacharrin - Sucralose - High Fructose Corn Syrup - Sugar (this is tough) - Fluoride (tap water) - Artificial Flavouring/Colourings/Preservatives - Sodium Benzoate - Potassium Sorbate - Trans Fats (not animal or good fats).

Unfortunately the list goes on, they're the main culprit for the nations decline in health. Food is medicine, find out which foods have the most healing benefits, blueberries, avocados, lean organic meats (raw if you can stomach it, it's not that bad trust me, and you get 100% of the goodness), brown rice, oatmeal, brocolli, sprouts, parsley etc etc.

Willpower is key, if you WANT to live healthily with a powerful lean body, you will eat what you know is right (let's be fair, you know whats healthy secretely). However most people like comfort, here comes the DESIRE part again, if it TASTES good, and FEELS good, and SMELLS good, thats all that matters. Yeah well, don't come running to me when you've got cancer, 3 kids and a beautiful wife you're going to leave behind early. Better hope you got a good will for them!

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loricwest — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:07:48 GMT

Shellyct, how wonderful to have your own garden & chickens, etc. Your diet sounds great. Have you thought about getting an ice cream maker so that you can use organic cream & ingredients instead of buying the Breyers? I got the Cuisinart 2 qt. maker recently & the ice cream is GREAT.

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Lex Luthor — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:56:41 GMT

That kid in the picture looks excactly like me when I was his age.

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Dorle — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:21:02 GMT

As a correctional officer in the "Assessment Unit" (entry into the correctional system by first offenders, age 16+), I watched in utter disbelief when one of the inmates put about eight spoons of sugar into his coffee CUP. He then ladled the contents instead of drinking it!! Sugar addiction leading to criminal behaviour??

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pramela — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:03:59 GMT

Anyone else have difficulity accessing the full PDF of the article in The Lancet as cited by Dr. Mercola. I would like my brain-washed nurse practicioner sister-in-law to read it and hopefully get her empty head out of her butt once and for all.

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WAY-OF-LIFE — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:36:12 GMT

BORN IN 57, GOT A TREAT WHEN YOU WERE A GOOD BOY, HERE'S A COOKIE (HOMEMADE OF COURSE.) HA HA. BOY TIMES HAVE CHANGE. THEY SHOULD CALL ADD & ADHD, NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENT DISORDER. I TELL YOU I HEAR THIS DAY IN DAY OUT AT WORK. I TELL MY CLIENTS, THEY HAVE ALOT OF COMMON SENSE, BUT NOT ENOUGH COMMON PRACTICE. ANYWAY IT WAS HARD FOR ME TO CHANGE BUT WELL WORTH IT. HEALTH WEALTH, AND HAPPINESS.

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sadah — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:11:00 GMT

How do you go about getting sugar and msg out of your diet along with everything else harmful. It seems overwhelming! When you go grocery shopping, there is so much out there and reading all the lables.... Organic foods are also very expensive, when you are buying for a family along with other bills you have, how do you afford it? You would think organic would cost less seeing they don't spend money on all the fertilizers and junk when growing fruits and veggies.

I want to feed my family healthy, but with the prices of everything going up, it's frustrating!