If it's so bad, why are they allowed to sell it...?

[Indadhanu]

Ali - well I know myself when I did an elimatination diet (of sorts, wasn't a 'real' one, I just did it myself to work out what the heck was going on) that I have intolerances to those three plus a few others, and when Jazz turned one we widened her food range to some 'naughty' foods and oh goodness it was terrible for us all! Luckily we did it slowly, one at a time, so have been able to pretty much pinpoint what sends her off the rails. We only do 'raw'/from scratch at home anyway, so anything new is usually processed. And then we work out what is in the food that she could react to, and we link it up to other foods, we found a pattern between some sets of numbers. We have a 'food log' with daily food, mood behaviour sleep etc.

BW - I find my body seems to react worse when I have either 621, 282, or 160b. But it doesn't really matter, if I have a lot of different ones in a short space of time, the same things happen. If I even eat a small bowl of flavoured chips (621) I will be paying for it for the next week. But if I eat a little bit of another additive (not 621, 282, 160b) it's not nearly as bad, but if I eat a lot of the 'others' then its the same as a small bowl of chips.
At first I just get a 'hangover' - headache, dizziness, irritability, nausea, blurred vision, sudden tiredness, hot flushes, ringing in my ears.
And then over the next few days theres the 'evidence' of eating crap, of it leaving my body- acne, and sometimes constipation or diarrhea.
If I eat too much, like if I go silly over Christmas - New Year, eat food I don't normally eat, it's like a toxic build-up. All my joints swell, including the cartilage between my ribs and sternum making it really painful to breathe, and it takes a while to get it back on track. When I get the arthritis symptoms I also get clumsy and accident prone.
If I eat a lot over the course of a week or a few weeks (if I get lazy with cooking) I find I get really REALLY severe depression symptoms as well.