Food Additives Link to Hyperactivity

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Thursday, 27 May 2004

Artificial colourings and preservatives in food and drink boost levels of hyperactivity in pre-school children and urgent consideration should be given to removing them, doctors will claim today.

The additives have a "significant" impact on the behaviour of ordinary children and their elimination would be in the long-term interests of public health, researchers from the University of Southampton say.

The proportion of children with high levels of hyperactivity was halved when the additives were removed, the researchers found.

Source: The Independent; Daily Mail via www.soilassociation.org