Reduce Your Exposure to Chemical Food Dyes – Part 2

Reduce Your Exposure to Chemical Food Dyes – Part 2

  The easiest way to avoid or reduce your exposure to chemical coloring is simply to avoid a lot of processed food.  Check your gluten-free labels always. FD&C on a label means the FDA allows the dyes to be used in food, drugs and cosmetics.  Sometimes you’ll see FDA Red 40 or FD&C Red 40, […]

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Chemical Food Dyes and Hyperactivity – Part 1

Chemical Food Dyes and Hyperactivity – Part 1

  Chemical dyes are in all types of foods and despite evidence of some of them wreaking havoc; the FDA has allowed them to remain on the “safe list”. Manufacturers like to use them due to their capabilities to enhance foods, gums etc.  The results are vivid, consistent and very appealing. The FDA monitors the […]

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A Gluten-Free Cooking Solution

A Gluten-Free Cooking Solution

Jen Cafferty, Founder of the Gluten Free Expo 2009 admits liberally to her own battle with the problem of how to eat healthy and nutritionally once she was forced to learn the ropes of a gluten-free lifestyle. In my interview with Jen, I learned that Jen’s daughter was the first to open her eyes to […]

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