Nutrition and Human Development Essay Example

United States. It is worth noting that artificial dyes can also be found naturally occurring in fruits like grapes and oranges.

Food colors are used to make oranges look more vibrant and appealing. They are also found in many processed foods such as breakfast cakes, candies, cookies, cereals, snacks, vitamin foods, and dessert powders. However, consuming artificially colored foods can cause symptoms similar to ADHD including hypoglycemia, learning difficulties, lack of focus, hypothyroidism, heart disease, anemia, visual and/or hearing impairments. It may even lead to bipolar disorder and allergies. The Food Freedom Network's research concentrates on specific artificial food colors.

The most common artificial food colors are citrus red#2, which brightens Florida oranges but can cause urinary bladder tumors, and blue#2 (indigo carmine), found in candies and colored beverages, which can lead to brain tumors. Another food color to be cautious of is blue #1 (brilliant blue), commonly used in baked cakes, candies, and colored beverages/juices, as it has the potential to cause kidney tumors.

Green #3 is commonly used in flavoring and coloring ice creams, juices, and candies. It has been verified to have carcinogenic traits that could lead to testes tumors and bladder complications in male children. Meanwhile, red #3 or erythrosine is a food color found in candies, sausage casings, and baked cakes. It poses health risks such as thyroid cancer in children.

Other harmful artificial food colors such as red #40 or allura red, yellow #5 (tartrazine), and yellow #6 have comparable effects on children, including hyperactivity, behavioral issues, and hypersensitivity. Allura red is commonly used to color beverages, foods, dessert powders, cereals, and many candies. However, there are opposing views on the benefits of

artificial food colors in enhancing the health and well-being of children. As a result, the government and artificial food color companies typically reject proposals to ban the use of these colors in food products.

Artificial food colors offer several advantages, such as enhancing the sugar content in food to increase the proportion of carbohydrates. This provides children with a considerable amount of energy and allows for instant vitality by accelerating glucose absorption into the bloodstream. Consequently, children can stay energized and engaged in activities throughout the day. Additionally, food colors transfer a noteworthy quantity of nutrients and minerals from the original food or fruit to the colored food.

When it comes to flavored baked goods, such as cakes and cookies, incorporating strawberry and orange flavors means adding the nutrients and minerals from strawberries and oranges into the final product.

Discussion

Many people are unaware of the health risks associated with consuming artificial food colors. Those who do know about these risks may struggle to resist buying food dyes for special occasions or parties because their children may not understand the dangers involved. Furthermore, it can be difficult to avoid purchasing and consuming dyed foods as some of these colors closely resemble natural food colors, making them hard to distinguish. Additionally, the added flavoring and sweetness of food dyes make them highly appealing, leading parents to view them as an ideal way to please their children.

The research conducted in this paper shows that artificial food colors have more significant downsides and potential dangers to children's health than benefits. These additives have been found to cause learning difficulties, restlessness, and daydreaming among children while they are in class, resulting in a

decline in academic performance. Therefore, not only does this pose a threat to economic development but it also makes these artificial food colors unsuitable for human consumption. Consequently, there should be a permanent ban imposed on them.

Conclusion

Despite their superficial advantages such as enhanced appearance and flavors, it is evident that artificial food colors present substantial health risks for children.

The society and government should pay more attention to the harmfulness of artificial food colors and proceed with a complete widespread banning of their use on foodstuffs. The negative impacts on children's health include heart diseases, learning disabilities, hypersensitivity, and allergies among others. In order to nurture a healthy nation in the future that is fit for the achievement of world dreams such as economic prosperity, children should be given natural and organic foods.

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On October 15, 2016, I visited http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/02/24/are-you-or-your-family-eating-toxic-food-dyes.aspx and found the following text from an article on articles.mercola.com. The authors of the article are Michael T. Murray and J. E. (2005).

The book "The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods" by Simon and Schuster is a valuable source of information regarding various foods and their healing properties. Moreover, the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) offers additional insights on this topic.The source of

the information is a website called "www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov". The specific article can be found at the following link: "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2957945/". The author of the article is Stevens, L. B., and it was published on April 24, 2014. The article discusses the amounts of artificial food dyes and added sugars in foods and sweets commonly consumed by children.