| Color dyes such as: Yellow Lake 6, Red 40 Lake, Blue | | | | and your kids: after eating foods with color dyes are |
| 1 and many others are in most foods and personal | | | | you/they less focused and more irritable? Remember |
| products. Check the ingredients on your favorite cereal, | | | | that color dyes can be absorbed through your gums |
| candy, juice, chewable vitamin, soda, toothpaste and | | | | and skin, so read all labels. |
| shampoo. You will find color dyes listed on most of | | | | It is tough to get kids off the candies and processed |
| these labels. If we could read the small-print ingredients | | | | foods that have so many color dyes. To help, try this |
| on make up and lipstick, we would find color dyes | | | | idea from a friend of mine: for small children, tell them if |
| among many other hazardous ingredients. | | | | they choose not to eat a candy or treat given to them |
| Color dyes have been implicated in the rise of ADD | | | | at school or after sports, they can put it in a jar at |
| ADHD cases. Dr. Feingold did research on over 1200 | | | | home. When the jar is full, they can be paid $5 or |
| children with ADHD and found half of them had allergic | | | | taken for a non-candy treat. It helped motivate my |
| reactions to color dyes that aggravated ADHD | | | | young kids! (We adults and grown kids will have to rely |
| symptoms. We took our four kids off color dyes and | | | | on self control and the desire to feel focused and |
| found that it improved mood and behavior in everyone, | | | | calm! |
| particularly in our more sensitive child. Watch yourself | | | | |