Curious who’s gonna regulate it after they knee capped the FDA
I’m ready for that psycho to die. I don’t care how he goes. But he does need to go. Go on down to the lower room. Where his drug addled cracked out demented ass belongs.
His “point” is that food dyes cause cancer, hyperactivity, and autism. It’s a great horror story I’m sure. Not really a point.
For those interested in the actual science part of the article:
Why the fuss over food coloring? Are natural dyes really that much better for our health?
“They’re better for some people’s health,” says Jamie Alan, a professor of pharmacology and toxicology at Michigan State University. “There is a very small percentage of children who are very sensitive to these dyes. And when they eat these dyes, they display behaviors that we sometimes associate with ADHD.”
Alan stresses that there is no evidence that those kids actually develop ADHD. But research has found that after eating foods containing certain dyes, children, including those diagnosed with ADHD or autism, can show signs of hyperactivity, moodiness and inattentiveness. However many of these foods, particularly candy and soda, also contain sugar, which has also been connected to hyperactive behavior.
Alan recommends that parents talk to a pediatrician and try an elimination diet to make sure the dye and not another ingredient is to blame. But she largely supports phasing out artificial dyes; most public health advocates think this is a good idea. “In my opinion,” Alan says, “because we’re talking about children and because they are a vulnerable population, I do think this is a great thing to do. But I will recognize that it is not going to impact the vast majority of the population.”
None of this changes the fact that Robert F. Kennedy is a fucking moron.
Agreed. I wonder if he came up with this himself or someone from his team. There are plenty papers that cautiously correlate said dyes with abnormal brain functioning.
And my personal opinion, there isn’t any reason for such dyes to exist in food. Candy or soda shouldn’t have to look like “Demon Core Green”
Interesting duh moment right.
So… sugar correlation being taken for dye causation. Ok
Sugar doesn’t actually cause ADHD behaviors. There’s no casual link between sugar consumption and hyperactivity
https://www.verywellhealth.com/sugar-and-adhd-what-you-should-know-5207992
I never said there is causation. Indeed, I explicitly used the word correlation.
I didn’t say you did, did I?
Fair point
I was half expecting you to retort that you didn’t say I said you did, haha
However many of these foods, particularly candy and soda, also contain sugar, which has also been connected to hyperactive behavior.
Hopefully it is just the article being poorly-written and not MSU making terrible studies and/or Jamie Alan being a dunce.
“Dyes cause kids to be temporarily hyper, also, the food with the dyes has sugar in it which could actually be the cause.”
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Stopped clock. Hell, even a backwards running clock is right ever so often.
… A backwards-running clock is right more often… Unless I’m misreading what you meant.
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I saw what you wrote before you deleted it and it was ridiculous. I bow to your pedantry.
Also, I laughed way harder than I should have and was too embarrassed to explain to my wife what was so funny.
You’re not misreading but you are thinking too much about the analogy.
Reading deeper, some backwards clocks can be an accurate projection of working ones if used with a mirror.
I get it, because we want to do the opposite of what RFK Jr wants the majority of the time.
A backward clock can be an accurate projection of a working one with sufficiently timed strobes
Its right twice a day every day. Pretty fuckin generous analogy lol
Only decades after other countries kicked them out. Some of those common American food dyes are illegal even in China, of all places.
This reminds me of the study that said that people drive more colorful cars in times when the economic outlooks are better.
So, the colorfulness expresses their character and their outlook towards a positive future.
A colleague told me of a similar study that related shorter skirt lengths on women to better economic outlooks.
Let’s fix this society, if only for shorter skirts.
hell yeah!
huh, when i learned about the hemline index i learned about it in the inverse, but basically what i learned about macro is that it’s bullshit.
Non-peer-reviewed research in 2010 supported the correlation, suggesting that “the economic cycle leads the hemline with about three years”.
from the article you linked
very interesting, now i know the name for it :)
I want a roadkill-eating, worm-brained psychopathic junkie out of my food, can I have that?
All a distraction. Yes some of these ideas aren’t bad. We don’t need this fuckhead to implement them.
That’s why we need this fuckhead to implement them. This fuckhead is doing so many things that will harm and even kill uncountable number of people and there doesn’t seem to be anything we can do about it. Let him waste time on food dyes. Maybe it will help a small number of people who are sensitive but at least he’s not spending his time on something harmful to everyone. Let him distract himself from the evil schemes
I mean I don’t care. At least then I wouldn’t have vaguely orange spoons after making Mac-n-cheese.
Fun fact, though, Kraft Mac and Cheese removed artificial dyes in 2013, didn’t tell anyone at first, and waited to see if consumers would complain. Nobody did, so they announced that they were able to replace the artificial yellow colors with really colorful spices like annatto and turmeric.
So you’re still gonna get staining. Turmeric gets in everything.
You don’t care? You don’t care that you are being poisoned but you’re kinda happy your spoons won’t have a funny color.
Is this the American Educational system in practice?
We can’t get labels that say what’s actually in our food, and chuckle fuck thinks he’s gonna ban food coloring.
Why not disallow all food dye, not just the bright ones?
Beet juice is a bright dye, but it’s also a food. Some dyes are entirely harmless. I believe the rule they’re talking about affects artificial dyes, not bright dyes, and the headline is mistaken.
For example, some red dyes are sourced from petroleum instead of edible substances.
some red dyes are sourced from petroleum
so are skin creams and lipstick btw and i’m pretty sure these are non-toxic
if you wanna know more, look up “paraffine wax”. it’s literally what skin creams are mostly made of.
Skin safe is not necessarily ingestion safe
Harmless by themselves, perhaps, but if they make some ultraprocessed foods more appealing are they entirely harmless? I think it’s fine to make beet juice in the kitchen for our own uses.
LOL this is great!
I can taste some of them, especially red and blue artificial food dyes. I’d love to see them replaced because I look like a weirdo eating around the m&ms I don’t like.
Idk, there’s something beautiful about seeing all one or two colors of M&Ms left in a bowl.
I hate dyes because they are a form of advertisement.
