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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Leonie  🍽️ 🥣‏ @leoniee54 10 May 2018
      Replying to @WeDietitians @foodnuthealth and

      Sulphites in foods. Nutritional benefit: zero Known adverse effects: skin effects, migraines, gut reactions, asthma. Can be life threatening for some ppl. Differs from other known provoking agents (eg allergens) as it is ADDED to foods.

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    2. Leonie  🍽️ 🥣‏ @leoniee54 10 May 2018
      Replying to @leoniee54 @WeDietitians and

      Artificial colours and flavours. Nutritional benefit: zero Known adverse effects: lots What foods are they added to: stuff we don’t need.

      1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
    3. Leonie  🍽️ 🥣‏ @leoniee54 10 May 2018
      Replying to @leoniee54 @WeDietitians and

      MSG Ditto

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    4. Leonie  🍽️ 🥣‏ @leoniee54 10 May 2018
      Replying to @leoniee54 @WeDietitians and

      Added Nitrates and nitrites in food. Nutritional benefit: zero Known adverse effect: probable carcinogen.

      2 replies 1 retweet 0 likes
    5. Leonie  🍽️ 🥣‏ @leoniee54 10 May 2018
      Replying to @leoniee54 @WeDietitians and

      Benzoate & other preservatives. Nutritional benefit: zero Adverse effects: respiratory. ADHD. At v high doses may form benzene, a known carcinogen, tho supposedly not at levels normally consumed. BUT why allow even the slightest risk?

      2 replies 1 retweet 0 likes
    6. Leonie  🍽️ 🥣‏ @leoniee54 10 May 2018
      Replying to @leoniee54 @WeDietitians and

      Note: core foods do not contain the above ... altho watch out for sulphites in fruit and potato products.

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    7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 10 May 2018
      Replying to @leoniee54 @WeDietitians and

      Uh, this thread has a whole lot of things that are either debatable or entirely incorrect. For one thing, MSG is fine and the mythos of "MSG intolerance" is largely to do with systemic racism against Chinese immigrants

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    8. Leonie  🍽️ 🥣‏ @leoniee54 10 May 2018
      Replying to @GidMK @WeDietitians and

      Unless you have had yourself formally tested by exclusion diet and confirmed challenge supervised by top allergy clinic in Australia.

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    9. Leonie  🍽️ 🥣‏ @leoniee54 10 May 2018
      Replying to @leoniee54 @GidMK and

      even the opinion pieces/ reviews on MSG/colours/preservatives don’t write the effects off, they just say it’s ‘only a small % of pop’ affected. But, if you are one of that ‘small %’ and for you it’s 100% of your problem ...

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    10. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 10 May 2018
      Replying to @leoniee54 @WeDietitians and

      There is always a tiny proportion of the population who will have an extreme reaction to any food product, but by that logic we should ban virtually all foods aside from plain rice and water from our supermarket shelves

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 10 May 2018
      Replying to @GidMK @leoniee54 and

      For example, were we to "delete" sulphites from our food shelves, we'd get rid of all dried fruit and a whole bunch of offshoot foods for an allergy that is quite rare

      4:51 PM - 10 May 2018
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        2. We Dietitians‏ @WeDietitians 10 May 2018
          Replying to @GidMK @leoniee54 and

          If the “positive” they proport to bring to the food supply, outweighs the negative, then sure....it has a case to stay. Every tweet/statement ever written is “debateable”. Here we are offering “ideas” on “how to improve food supply to halt and reverse the dominance of P&P”

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        3. We Dietitians‏ @WeDietitians 10 May 2018
          Replying to @WeDietitians @GidMK and

          P&P= processed and packaged.

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        2. We Dietitians‏ @WeDietitians 10 May 2018
          Replying to @GidMK @leoniee54 and

          I have to agree with L here Gid. We don’t/can’t maybe never will know everything about food, ingredients, micronutrients, additives. History tells us we’ve been wrong before (IBS & FODMAPS a go to example) - we need to listen more - listening is science too.

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 10 May 2018
          Replying to @WeDietitians @leoniee54 and

          We may never know everything about every food etc, but we can make pretty definitive statements about some of the products we're talking about here. Banning products because of anecdotally-reported symptoms is a pretty dark road to walk

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        2. Food Nut‏ @foodnuthealth 10 May 2018
          Replying to @GidMK @leoniee54 and

          Those affected by sulphites know to avoid, just like other components, and there are alternative products now. Having a reaction to sulphites is very unpleasant. What we need to do is revisit the the GRAS decisions & how the value of the b/g evidence.

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        3. Leonie  🍽️ 🥣‏ @leoniee54 10 May 2018
          Replying to @foodnuthealth @GidMK and

          I am time-poor & away from desk/refs & will come back to this in few wks. A few comments for now. 1) additives not extensively tested B4 intro, only for cancer & mutagenic effects. 2) ppl w sulphite sensitivity do not always know & sulphites not easy to avoid. 1/-

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