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I think most of us adults really do know artificial food dyes offer no nutritional value, yet, we continue to buy into the marketing farce. We are feeling good about handing our kids toxic substances in fun colors and endorsed by cartoon characters.
In this Toxic Stone soup series I have written my theories around the old tale of the peddler who conned the towns folk into making him a meal he called Stone Soup.
This guy provided the pot and the stone while everyone donated a carrot, an onion, some beef stock. You know, healthy stuff. These people, who had very little, all threw things into the pot to make a delicious stew with theri combined efforts. Now, while that was a wonderful idea, they had all gotten manipulated by the peddler.
Good choices or not?
I have concerns about our choices, as parents, for our children. I have the idea that we are all being conned by someone or group of elite into believing things that are not in the best interest of our children's future. We are shown the healthy ingredients, like the carrots and the tomatoes in bright colors, but no one shows us the toxic stone at the bottom of the big kettle. We don't ask, either.
Let's look at toothpaste...
If we honestly asked ourselves questions like...
- Would the kids be so willing to brush their teeth if kid's toothpaste looked "natural" or tasted "healthy" instead of strawberry pink bubble gum flavor?
- Or, is it take we, as parents, want so desperately to make undesirable chores more fun than we had to do when we were kids?
- Why not make tooth brushing fun with colorful fruity flavored paste disguised a candy?
...what would your answer be?
I would be the first to say I want the to enjoy life and do fun things. But then the No Non-cents Nanna side of me says, "Brushing your teeth is not a choice."
I remember my Grandmother handing me a toothbrush with baking soda and salt. I was told to brush and I did. Brushing my teeth for Grandma was never a choice.
- I get concerned when we, the adults in charge, think we have to make everything sugar coated in order to bribe kids into doing those very things that are not a choice.
- Many things in life are responcibilites we all have to learn to take care of or there are consequences to be paid. These responcilbilities in our tasks of daily living are not choices.
Personally, I never had a single hint of a cavity until I was in my 20's. I never used sugar loaded toothpaste. OK, we did use Ipana that came free in the mail along with a tube of Prell shampoo some time in the 1950's. It was advertsied on our black and white TV my folksused a a free babysitter.
A few generations after my childhood we are buying those cute cartoon labeled toothpaste dispensers full toxic stuff that will kill us all. (Hang on, I will get to that a little ways down.)
The TV commercials tell us to feel good about our parenting. Some big greedy company is now helping us all experience the chore of parenting much easier with their product. We buy into the hype.
What a crock!
Marketing experts know that psychology behind influencing the consumer. They put the right color of packaging on an artifically colored product that looks appealing. (I will cover the pyschology of color in an upcoming post.)
This makes me wonder just who is charge of raising our children? Is it Mom and Dad or is it the big company who only care about selling a product in order to get a big fat paycheck?
I have another question for you.
- When was the last time you read the ingredients or the instructions and warnings on a tube of tootpaste?
For me, it has been a year and half since I read that label. Well, I don't always use toothpaste. Looking at the tube in my bathroom, now, all I see is active ingredients: sodium flouride.
The does not mention the artificial flavors and colors that are not good for us, but seduced the kids into having fun brushing their teeth.
The fluoride sounds good. But, as I scan down ward I see warning keep out of reach of children. Why is that? Isn't flouride going to be making teeth to be strong and healthy?
Why does the label say to supervise kids while brushing their teeth and to not swallow?
Flouride in overdose is poisonous is what that means. YIKES! too much floride is harmfull. That is why children should not use adult toothpaste. Even with the kid kind they should never use more than a dab the size of pea. (You know the little round green vegetable.)
From my research I learned that there are many more flouride posionings than we know. Colic, tummy aches, head ache or the flu like symptoms can be a mistaken diagnosis for an over dose of flouride.
Even if parents or care takers catch a kid sneaking a toothpaste snack, many are misguided into believing, it is good for them and blow it off.
Posion control needs to called.
| For a poison emergency in the U.S. call 1-800-222-1222 |
| American Association of Poison Control Centers |
Bad trend
Years ago, it was a trend for mothers in some areas to let their kids snack on their own tube of toothpaste all day long.
Yeah, really!
As a new mother and a registered nurse, in the 1970's, I freaked when I saw this happening in the city I lived in. I would go to church, the grocery store to the park...
YIKES!
Kids everywhere were sucking on tubes of toothpaste. I have no idea who started the risky trend other than the influence of TV commercials.
I finally asked someone what was up?
"Flouride is good for their teeth. My kids have cavities."
Something else I saw among even the tots, too old to be carrying bottles, was brightly colored orange liquid. The kids were alternating sucking on orange soda or orange JELL-O all day long with their tube of tooth paste. They were sugar-coating their teeth!
No wonder the teeth were rotting in their heads. No wonder the kids complained of feeling ill! They were being poisoned.
As Head Start nurse, I saw this same thing happening in the 1990's happening. In fact, in some of the counties, I visited, numerous kids who needed oral surgery for rotten teeth. I had to find funding for them to pay for the surgeons willing to take on so many kids. Out patient surgery was another issue to be covered.
Moms, again, had been giving their children orange soda or liquid orange gelatin in a baby bottle under the misguided belief that if it is orange like a piece of fruit orange if must be healthy for the child.
The fact is there is absolutley no nutritional value at all in colored dyes. That crap is full of sugar. The chemical ingredients are the same as in the sole of your work out shoes. (Another blog.)
Back to flouride
The element flouride is a metal that is naturally occuring in soil and water. We may even breathe it in.
In the community I grew up the natural levels were very healthy. My peers had pretty good teeth. But, a few poorer counties over the flouride levels were very low. That just happened to be the counties in which my Head Start 3 -5 year old students had all of their teeth rottening out of their heads even while munching of toxic toothpaste all day. Parents sought the cheap sources of food compounding health issues.
History lesson
Around 1945 scientists noted that those areas in the United States with higher floride levels that occured naturally in the water had less tooth decay while those with lower levels had bad teeth. Just like I wrote above.
It is too bad that so many parents believed that those sugary products were good for the kids.
In 1962 United States Public Health Service (PHS) decided that all public water supplies should have a certain level of flouride. If cities water supply did not meet those standards flouride was added.
Many citizens were outraged feeling this was a Red or Communist plot to mass poisoning.
Oh, those were the days when paranoia was rampant and a Commie was hiding behind every tree with spying devices. I am not passing judgement, here. I am just saying, think about it.
summary
I am used to writing research papers. It is a challenge for me to cut things short when I have so much more say. This series will continue.
To summarize this toxic stone soup series theory of mine I want to encourage parents to not accept a nicley packaged kid appealing product as being safe.
- Read labels
- Research an ingredient every time you do not know what it is.
- Don't be buying into every commercial you see on TV or read on the inter-net at face value.
- Keep your kids supervized and product up where they can not help themselves.
I am Malika Bourne the No Non-cents Nanna saying, "Make good choices."
Have you read teh first post in the Toxic Stone Soup Series?
http://nonon-centsnanna.com/nanna/nanna.php
http://nanna.teoe.com/b2evolution/blog1.php/toxic-stone-soup-is-immunizations
http://nanna.teoe.com/b2evolution/blog1.php/toxic-stone-soup-series-continues
http://nanna.teoe.com/b2evolution/blog1.php/toxic-stone-soup-children-and