Jack Challem
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 We suggest buying supplements at health food or natural food stores because these products do not usually contain any sugar or artificial colors. (Supplements sold at pharmacies and discount stores often contain sugar, artificial colors, and cheaper, poorly absorbed ingredients.) You will also have a wide variety of excellent brands to choose from, including Carlson, Solgar, and many other companies. If you want to take a minimum of pills, we recommend that you take Carlson's Nutra-Support Diabetes, a multivitamin-multimineral that was formulated for people with prediabetes and diabetes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Instead, you want to buy completely natural pickles like the ones you get at Trader Joe's that are made without artificial colors or flavors and that have an extremely low calorie count as well. An entire jar of pickles may give you only 50 calories or so and yet they can be quite satisfying and take up a considerable amount of space in your stomach, thereby turning off your appetite cravings.
Just don't buy pickles containing any added sugars or artificial colors. Some pickles are, believe it or not, loaded with sugar. They're more like candied cucumbers than pickles. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 The behavior of the children who consumed the artificial colors or the preservative was substantially worse than when they were eating only the whole-food diet. This behavior was the same across the board in the children who had ADHD, those who had allergies, and those with neither of those diagnoses.
The Bottom une
If your child does have a learning or concentration problem, the first step is to work with his or her teacher to improve concentration and attention in the classroom. Have the teacher send home work that was not completed in school. |
| Removing artificial colors and preservatives from the diet was dramatically effective at reducing hyperactivity, somewhere between the effectiveness of clonidine and Ritalin.
After initial behavioral testing and diagnosis, all of the children were fed a diet of whole, fresh foods with no artificial food colorings or chemical preservatives for one week, after which their behavior improved significantly. The next week the researchers continued the whole-food diet but also gave the children capsules containing a mixture of artificial colorings, the preservative benzoate, or nothing. |
Jack Challem
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| Supplements sold at pharmacies and discount stores often contain sugar, artificial colors, and cheaper, poorly absorbed ingredients.) You will also have a wide variety of excellent brands to choose from, including Carlson, Solgar, and many other companies. If you want to take a minimum of pills, we recommend that you take Carlson's Nutra-Support Diabetes, a multivitamin-multimineral that was formulated for people with prediabetes and diabetes. In addition to vitamins and minerals, it contains many vitaminlike substances that can help to maintain normal blood-sugar levels and insulin function. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mike: Some of the popular products also have artificial colors in them. What about your products? What does it have?
Bovio: Well, we were proud to be, we believe, the only true sports drink in whole foods markets in the North Atlantic region, in Boston and New York. They bought us as an alternative to some of the products that contain "Yellow Number 5" and other artificial colors. We use natural colors. In the lemon, we don't use any colors. In the orange, the same thing that gives it the flavor gives it the color -- beta carotene. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| Reductions in sugary foods and foods with artificial colors and preservatives have been shown in scientific studies to help ADHD. Get your kid involved in athletics. If after several months there is no improvement, you may need to try alternatives. Many schools offer team appointments with your child's teacher, social worker, and psychologist. In public schools that kind of intervention can take years. |
Jack Challem
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 I recommend buying your supplements at health food or natural food stores because their products usually don't contain any sugars or artificial colors. I also list a number of reputable supplement companies in the appendix near the end of the book. By the way, I'm not involved in selling supplements.
Quick Tip
An Important Consideration
If you are taking any psychiatric medications (Prozac, Zoloft, or others), do not stop without consulting your physician or psychiatrist. |
Marshall Editions
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 Avoid all preservatives and artificial colors, which are toxic to the nervous system and contribute to hyperactivity.
Supplements: Take 100 mg of B-complex vitamins a day to nourish the nervous system. Also take 100 mg of vitamin B6 a day, which is essential for the synthesis of serotonin, a hormone important for causing a calming effect. A good multivitamin/multimineral, taken as directed on the label, provides the basic nutrients for proper brain function (consult a practitioner about a good-quality product). |
Michael Pollan
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 One of the problems with the products of food science is that, as Joan Gussow has pointed out, they lie to your body; their artificial colors and flavors and synthetic sweeteners and novel fats confound the senses we rely on to assess new foods and prepare our bodies to deal with them. Foods that lie leave us with little choice but to eat by the numbers, consulting labels rather than our senses.
It's true that foods have long been processed in order to preserve them, as when we pickle or ferment or smoke, but industrial processing aims to do much more than extend shelf life. |
Andreas Moritz
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 In addition, millions of people suffer from allergies or sensitivity to chemicals added to common foods, including artificial colors or preservatives. There are many environmental contaminants contained in food packaging materials such as plastic bottles or plastic wraps, not to mention the exhaust fumes, pesticides, paint or carpet vapors and other environmental chemicals so many of us are exposed to every day. It would be harmful for the body if it did not react at all against the massive onslaught of poisons it has to deal with. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Many of these products are loaded with unnatural compounds including preservatives, fillers, artificial sweeteners, artificial colors, artificial flavors, stabilizers and some even have partially hydrogenated oils (trans fats). Many people, including myself find the majority of these bars to have strange textures and tastes. Some experience unusual reactions such as itchiness, numbness and even swelling in the mouth and on the lips, which may be a result of an allergic reaction. It's not enough to focus on the calories, carbohydrates, fats, protein and sugar content. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They need to know that the colors in the food mean something and not the artificial colors that you find in all these packaged processed foods. They have FD&C Red No. 5, for example, in them. You know where artificial colors come from?
Ben: Where do they come from?
Mike: Coal tar. They are petrochemical products basically.
Ben: Like they use for the road?
Mike: Like they use for the road. If you modify those petrochemicals enough, you can create food colors. That's where they come from. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Gatorade: Crap sports drinks that contain artificial colors made from petrochemical derivatives.
Tropicana: A low-end fruit juice brand engaged in deceptive labeling for many of its products.
Quaker: This is perhaps the only tolerable brand in the PepsiCo portfolio. Oatmeal is essentially good for you, although instant oats and all the sugars found in many oatmeal products make it a rather high-glycemic food that's not recommended for most people (especially diabetics or obese people). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Not only was there sugar, it had propylene glycol and artificial colors. Basically, artificial colors and white flour with no nutrition were shaped into a dog treat with sweeteners and propylene glycol.
Newman: Yes. Propylene glycol is a plasticizer that maintains the moisture in the product. And so it gives it that chewiness. That is why they use that. It is also a preservative.
Mike: Isn't that the same thing they use to winterize RVs?
Newman: Yes it is. And it's very similar to antifreeze. Antifreeze has that sweetened taste to it, and that is why animals will die from it. |
Bottom Line Health
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| The most common culprits are milk products, wheat, corn, yeast, sugar, spices and artificial colors and flavors. Eliminate a suspected problem food from your diet for five to seven days. Do your symptoms improve when you avoid the food? Do they get worse when you reintroduce it? If you find a problem food, ask your doctor whether you may have a food intolerance.
•What are the major sources of stress in your life? Our bodies' nerves, hormones and immune cells work together to help us cope with emotional stress. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I say this in jest, of course, since I am adamantly against the use of Ritalin in children, but let's be crystal clear about one thing that's different from last year's Halloween: This year, we have scientific evidence that artificial colors cause hyperactivity in children.
The evidence I'm talking about is, of course, the study recently conducted in the U.K. at the University of Southampton and published in The Lancet which establishes a strong correlation between the ingestion of artificial food colors and hyperactivity (which is eventually diagnosed as "ADHD"). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Plus, many are loaded up with artificial colors, sucrose and chemical sweeteners. Avoid cheap, store-bought children's vitamins or anything containing cyanocobalamin (a toxic form of vitamin B12). Quality children's vitamins are available through sources like Nordic Naturals (fish oils) and www.IntegratedHealth.com (also check www.WellnessResources.com for high-quality supplements).
18. Dryer sheets
Most popular dryer sheets and fabric softeners are made with toxic synthetic chemicals that are not safe to use on children's clothing. |
| Many "children's" medicines are actually more toxic than their adult counterparts because they're sweetened up and cosmetically enhanced with artificial colors made from petrochemicals. Yet parents poison their children every day with over-the-counter medicine.
8. Sunscreen
The sunscreen industry is a huge scam. Most popular sunscreen products actually cause skin cancer due to the numerous toxic chemicals they contain (which are quickly absorbed into the skin where they cause DNA mutations that lead to cancer). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Pick up a piece of beef jerky at any grocery store, and you'll find a combination of multiple cancer causing ingredients in a single product: Sodium nitrite, monosodium glutamate and even artificial colors (not to mention the toxic animal fat sources used to make beef jerky). Where is the FDA when it comes to protecting Americans from American companies?
The unstated double standard is that American foods are safe merely by the fact that they are made in America. But the only real difference between U.S. foods and Chinese foods is that the China-made ingredients will kill you faster... |
Ann N. Martin
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 There are no byproducts, fillers, artificial colors, or preservatives. This company also encourages a "natural approach," which means occasionally adding portions of fresh meat and vegetables to a pet's diet.
Homemade Diets for Pets
Many people have told me that they are terrified that if they feed their pet anything other than what comes out of a can or bag they may be harming their beloved animals. They believe that their pet will keel over and die. If your animal companion has a serious health problem, first consult a holistic or naturopathic veterinarian. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 The DAN protocol recommends parents feed their children organic foods that are free of toxic chemicals such as artificial colors and flavors and preservatives.
FOOD ALLERGIES: Many autistic children have food allergies that hinder proper function of their digestive tract and/or immune systems. A significant study by Dr. R. Cade found that 87 percent of the autistic children tested had the presence of IgG antibodies, which is indicative of an allergy to gluten. The autistic child is also frequently susceptible to dairy allergies. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 Dyes Rose bengal orange; artificial colors (red, andyellow#5). SEE artificial colors.
Ethylene DiBromide (EDB) A highly toxic and controlled carcinogenic pesticide used in leaded gasoline until banned by the EPA in 1983, a heavy liquid with chloroform odor converts to gas at over 40A F, reported mixed and dispersed in JP-8 jet fuel exhaust visible as long or intersecting white clouds over the American heartlands in 1997-1998 for population control; tested in Cape Cod cranberry ponds, Maryland and Pennsylvania. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It has none of the usual junk found in multi-vitamins for kids (no artificial colors, no sugars, no chemical sweeteners, etc.), but it's loaded with plant extracts and even tastes great thanks to the xylitol and stevia in the formula. See the ingredients yourself at: http://www.integratedhealth.com/hpdspec/kids.htm
Here's the catch: This formula was made with such high-end ingredients that most parents thought it was too expensive at $24.95 / bottle. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| They contain virtually nothing other than corn syrup and artificial colors.
A holiday that's fitting for the most obese nation in the world
Every Halloween, I stare in astonishment at the scene playing out in front of my eyes. I'm not astonished at the children, mind you: They're just doing what they've been taught to do by television advertisements and peer pressure. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We will NOT promote products made with conventional dairy, refined sugars, chemical additives, artificial colors, yeast extract, etc. Don't even think about sending us a food bar made with sucralose or aspartame. (If we see products made with high-fructose corn syrup, we toss them into the round file.) We are only interested in extremely high quality, natural, earth-friendly products from high-integrity companies, period!
That's it. Enjoy! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If your product contains yeast extract, hydrogenated oils, high-fructose corn syrup, mercury, artificial colors or aspartame, don't even bother submitting it. I also don't promote products made mostly with fillers (for example, a bottle of mangosteen juice made mostly out of apple juice would not earn my recommendation).
To get exposure on NewsTarget, you have to offer a truly high-quality, innovative product (or book, website, etc.) that delivers strong benefits to customers.
2. Send an empty sample + literature to us. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Basically, artificial colors and white flour with no nutrition were shaped into a dog treat with sweeteners and propylene glycol.
Newman: Yes. Propylene glycol is a plasticizer that maintains the moisture in the product. And so it gives it that chewiness. That is why they use that. It is also a preservative.
Mike: Isn't that the same thing they use to winterize RVs?
Newman: Yes it is. And it's very similar to antifreeze. Antifreeze has that sweetened taste to it, and that is why animals will die from it. |
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