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You’ll recall that I wrote last time that a lot of top managers in the food business WANT to switch to natural colors in their food products. BUT, if consumers like you – including some who own stock in these companies – make it clear that you want natural coloring in foods sooner rather than later, those managers will be able to push this issue up higher on their action list. Perhaps most important, these products are ingested, worn or applied on the skin disproportionately by young people – sweets, soft drinks, macaroni and cheese, popcorn, juice drinks, cough medicine, hair dye and deodorants are just some examples. So, if the industries that produce our food, drugs, cosmetics, personal care products, and textiles understand that their customers want natural colors without further delay, we believe it can happen without any action by the FDA.

2018 was a great year for the fight against artificial dyes. We saw many stores ban products using them and other companies pledge to remove artificial dyes in favor of naturally derived colors

I’ll cut right to the advantages: Putting this resolve into action can significantly improve your health, especially protect the youngest – and oldest – members of your family from brain damage, get some nasty carcinogens out of your diet, protect your heart and eyes, and help you keep your weight under control. The main goal in that marketing mission was twofold: (1) present as gospel-truth “facts” about HFCS that trashed years of scientific findings as to the danger of ingesting free (unbound) fructose, and (2) make anyone who attempted to tell family or friends about the health risks of HFCS seem like a nitwit who doesn’t know what they’re talking about. The monetary stakes are higher, the products that contain processed free glutamic acid are much more numerous, and industry has the full and unbridled support of the FDA. Top ten names of ingredients that always contain processed free glutamic acid (Courtesy of the Truth in Labeling Campaign) Linda and Bill Bonvie are regular bloggers for Citizens for Health and the co-authors of Badditives:

Before you run out for that shot, however, there are some things you should know – a bit of flu vaccine history that you won’t be hearing from the CDC, the CVS, your local health department and most especially Big Pharma. You wouldn’t know it by the big flu-shot push that revs up every year, but the fact that there’s no real proof to support this extensive (and expensive) campaign is out there in peer-reviewed and published data… much of it straight from the CDC itself. it demanded that the feds protect drug makers against any claims of adverse reactions from the shots – what’s known today as the Office of Special Masters of the U. S. Court of Federal Claims (a.k.a. the “vaccine injury court”). Of course, you could argue that even a smidgen of protection is worthwhile, but that’s another flu-shot theory that doesn’t hold water considering the risks involved, which range from agonizing shoulder pain known as SIRVA (shoulder injuries related to vaccine administration), to allergic reactions, headache, fever and nausea (the last three considered “common side effects” by the CDC).