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Do specific foods cause hyperactivity in children?
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Explores the theories that sugar, artificial food dyes, and preservatives create hyperactive behaviour in children. Outlines the symptoms of food allergies in children and explains how they can affect behaviour. Created by the Healthy Eating Affiliate for the CHN.
- Source: Canadian Health Network (CHN)
- From: FAQs: healthy eating
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Food Directorate
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Protects and improves the health of Canadians through science-based policies and programs related to safe and nutritious food. Focuses on nutrition, food additives, food processes, novel foods, food contaminants, and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
- Source: Health Canada
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Sugar and sugar substitutes: friend or foe?
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Addresses the myths associated with sugar consumption; explains how sugar can be a component of a healthy diet; and offers tips for identifying sugar substitutes. Includes dental health suggestions.
- Source: Dietitians of Canada (DC)
- From: Fact sheets
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