Fwd: [FAUS-ENEWS] Let's Let 'em Hear From US !!

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Dear Feingold Association Members & Friends,

 

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LET'S LET 'EM HEAR FROM US !!

 

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Last month I told you about the editorial in the British Medical Journal by

Andrew Kemp, Professor of Pediatric Allergy and Clinical Immunology at

Children' Hospital in Sydney, Australia.

 

Dr. Kemp maintained that a diet without artificial colorings, etc., should

not be considered " alternative. " Rather, he said, a dye-free,

preservative-free diet should be part of standard treatment for children with

ADHD.

 

The McCann study was published last fall, showing that even " normal "

children exhibit hyperactive symptoms and difficulty concentrating when exposed

to a

modest amount of food dyes and a preservative. Almost immediately, and in

response to a strong media campaign, the big supermarket chains in England

fell over each other competing to see who would be the fastest to get the

additives out of their house brands before the end of the year. Now, with

editorials and articles in prestigious medical journals like the BMJ supporting

the

McCann research, the big multinational companies

(Mars candies, McDonalds, Kellogg's, Kraft etc) are coming around -- in

England, anyway.

 

Is it fair that these companies -- these AMERICAN companies -- will color

their candy and cereal with safe natural colorings to sell in Europe, while

continuing to dump their trashy candy and cereal colored with dyes like Red #40

and Yellow #5 on our American kids?

 

Let's change this now.

 

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paste into the forms to send by email or fax to your senators and

representatives. You can find their addresses here:

 

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Remember to add the name of the person you are writing to at the top of the

letter, and your own name and address at the bottom. Feel free to add

anything else you like - perhaps write about why this is important to you, or

why

you think this should be important to the government.

 

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email address. Watch for a word or character limit posted on some of the

forms, so your message won't end up cut off before the end. At the moment, the

message contains 286 words (1,847 characters).

 

If you can, shoot me a note to let me know you have sent your emails. With

all of us together, we can blanket the nation!!

 

Shula Edelkind

Feingold Association of the United States

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Dear _________

 

I am writing to ask you to hold hearings and to pass a law banning

artificial food dyes.

 

Since 1973, many studies in the US and abroad have shown that these

petroleum-based chemicals can trigger behavior problems in children.

 

A recent meta-analysis (Schab 2004) concluded “our results strongly suggest

an association between ingestion of AFCs (artificial food colorings) and

hyperactivity†and called for “ambitious vigil against avoidable harmful

exposures.†In one study, for example, 75% of 200 hyperactive children

improved on

a diet without the dyes (Rowe 1994).

 

Also in 2004, a British government-sponsored study of 277 toddlers linked

colorings and a preservative to behavioral changes (Bateman 2004). The authors

called for removing these chemicals from the diet of all children.

 

A subsequent British government-sponsored study of several hundred toddlers

and older children (McCann 2007) found that the food dyes cause overactivity,

impulsiveness, and inattention. The researchers wrote, “These findings show

that adverse effects . . . can also be seen in the general population and

across the range of severities of hyperactivity.â€

 

Responding to that research, the British Food Standards Agency is urging

manufacturers to color their foods with safe natural substances. The European

Parliament is now expected to ban artificial dyes in foods for small children

and require a warning label on other foods containing these dyes. Kraft,

McDonald’s, Kellogg, Mars and other multinational companies are removing the

dyes from food sold in the UK – but not in the US.

 

In light of the research showing that these petroleum-based dyes pose some

health risk to all children, with no benefits to any children, I urge you to

protect American children and their families by passing legislation to end

their use in the US.

 

Sincerely,

 

 

 

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