How does our diet compare to the 1940’s? - The Feingold Diet

How does our diet compare to the 1940¡¯s?

1940¡¯s

White toothpaste or baking

soda

Today

Multi-colored toothpaste,

perhaps with sparkles

Corn flakes

Oatmeal

Toast & butter, jam

Fruity Pebbles

Cereal that turns your

milk blue

Pop Tarts

Whipped cream

Real vanilla in baking

Cheeseburger

Cool Whip

Artificial vanilla in baking

Big Mac meal

Cookies made with real

chocolate

No vitamins

(or perhaps cod liver oil)

White powder or bad

tasting medicine

Cookies made with

artificial chocolate

Artificially colored and

flavored vitamins

Bubble-gum flavored

liquid medicine

Sample school lunch:

Meatloaf, real mashed

potatoes, vegetable. Milk,

cupcake from scratch

Sample school beverage:

Water from the water

fountain

Sample school lunch:

Processed foods loaded

with synthetic additives.

Strawberry milk

Sample school beverage:

Soft drink with artificial

color, flavor and

aspartame

Candy with synthetic

additives frequently

Homemade treats several

times a year at class parties

Food Dye Production

(milligrams per capita per day)

Food Coloring

Red 3

Yellow 5 + Lake

Green 3

Blue 1 + Lake

Yellow 6 + Lake

Blue 2 + Lake

Red 40 + Lake

Orange B

Maximum Average

mg/day per National

Academy of Science

Survey, 1977

24.0

65.0

04.3

22.6

51.0

10.9

127.0

NO LONGER USED

1978: The mg/day the

Nutrition Foundation

Recommended for

Research on ADHD & Diet

1.6

7.3

0.1

0.8

6.1

0.5

10.5

0.1

TOTAL

317.6

27.0

How much food dye do we eat today? Nobody knows.

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