Food Additives Increase Hyperactivity in Kids
 (NY, Reuters Health, 6/3/04)

Dr. John O. Warner from Southampton General Hospital, UK, and associates, studied the effect of artificial food colorings and benzoate preservative on 277 preschool children, 36 of whom were both hyperactive and allergic; 75 were only hyperactive, 79 only allergic and 87 had neither condition. When food additives were eliminated from the children’s diets, parents rated their behavior as less hyperactive; whereas, hyperactivity rose when additives were re-introduced. (original source: Archives of Disease in Childhood, June 2004)