Useful links

  • Improving children’s behaviour with SAFE food alternatives: Melbourne-based Additive Education is committed to informing families about the additives that are in the foods they eat and the potential effects of those additives. Often very simple changes are all that is needed to ensure that the food we provide to the children in our care is free of harmful additives. We offer additive audits of packaged products and processed foods (very useful for childcare centres) and assist with the development of additive free menus for all types of services and functions (ideal for canteens). Customised workshops can be tailored for different ages and interests in the community. The presentation, “Fed Up with Children’s Behaviour”, is ideal for parent groups, kindergartens and maternal health centres to educate parents and carers about the effects of food additives on children. To subscribe for free to the SAFE newsletter send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Supermarket tours can be organised for small groups or individuals exploring Failsafe or just Additive Free options in the supermarket isles. http://www.additiveeducation.com.au

 

  • Report adverse reactions to medications: Consumer Adverse Medication Events Line: Ph 1300134237, http://www.tga.gov.au/
  • Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has done more for kids’ health with his videos and no-nonsense approach than years of government “programs” in the UK. www.jamieoliver.co.uk
  • Rachel's Environmental and Health newsletters are named after Rachel Carson, the biologist who alerted the world to the dangers of pesticides. Why are people more sensitive to food chemicals now than 50 years ago? We know that exposure to chemicals can increase our sensitivity to foods. To find out more about environmental chemicals, visit www.rachel.org. In particular, see newsletters #726 and #712 (use "children" as the search keyword)
  • As Physicians for Nuclear Responsibility, this group won a Nobel Peace Prize. Now they have broadened their concerns and produced possibly the most significant document you will ever read about the future of our children. IN HARM'S WAY: TOXIC THREATS TO CHILD DEVELOPMENT (Cambridge, Mass.: Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility, May 2000) is available of the web at http://www.psr.org/chapters/boston/resources/in-harms-way-report-download.html or as a paper copy from GBPSR in Cambridge, Mass.; telephone 617-497-7440
  • The Parents Jury is a web-based network of parents who wish to improve the food and physical activity environments for children in Australia http://www.parentsjury.org.au/
  • Here's a fantastic cartoon for your school or office or to send to the media: click on it for a large printable version:

  • Epileptic seizures are highly likely to be related to foods in epileptics from food intolerant families (see Egger paper in references). Many network members have identified seizure-provoking food chemicals by using the diet recommended on these pages. But what do you do with a young child who is having 50+ seizures a day and is already heavily medicated with non-failsafe medication? The kuekids website http://home.iprimus.com.au/kuekids/home describes a different diet - but read the food intolerance page - many of these families eventually find their answers through failsafe. Remember that food chemicals passing through breastmilk can cause seizures in breastfed babies.
  • Reading and Dyslexia Clinic run by Heather Rawlins in supports failsafe as part of the process  07 4157 1031.
  • Kids Helpline "We care and we listen, any time and for any reason" 1800 55 1800 if your kids need help with emotional and other issues beyond failsafe.
  • A safe food lobbying group in New Zealand that offers information on a variety of food issues that regulatory authorities prefer not to deal with.  These include additives, pesticides, genetic engineering, irradiation, fluoridation and the advantages of organic food http://www.safefood.org.nz/
  • A Failsafe recipe website run by members: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~failsafe/
  • Links to Learning has achieved good results with Music-Based Auditory Stimulation, where the client listens through headphones to a series of specially engineered classical music CDs which have been specially produced to stimulate the brain's auditory pathways. It's called The Listening Program®, and is produced by an American company called Advanced Brain Technologies: www.links2learning.com.au
  • Here are some shocking public notices run in The New York Times by the Centre for Children's Health and the Environment in the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. To whom are our regulators listening if hospitals have to pay to advertise the harm caused by industrial, food and other chemicals?


  • For people with chemical as well as food sensitivities: Australian Chemical Trauma Alliance, http://members.ozemail.com.au/~actall/
  • If your child is sensitive to environmental chemicals, read the following book then give it to your school principal - "The Toxic Playground", by Jo Immig, from the Total Environment Centre, http://www.joimmig.com/images/toxic.pdf
  • How food manufacturers manipulate us consumers - the polished and entertaining anti-McDonalds website provides chilling insights into the reality of multinational marketing, see www.McSpotlight.org
  • Got a story about the effect of food additives in your family? Visit A Current Affair's website "Got a story to for ACA?" https://9now.nine.com.au/a-current-affair 
  • To find a source of preservative-free bread near you, see http://www.brumbys.com.au/ and http://bakersdelight.com.au for plain breads, or http://www.laucke.com.au/Catalog/breadmixes for breadmaker premixes, available in most supermarkets.
  • Worried about soy? See a report on the benefits and risks of soy products by the doctors from Harvard Medical School, http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/2014/02/12/straight-talk-about-soy/ .
  • For true allergies (not intolerances), see the website of FACTS, Food Anaphylactic Children's Training and Support Group in Australia, www.allergyfacts.org.au. There's useful peanut allergy information at http://www.themedifastplan.com/feature-articles/special-diet-needs-peanut-allergy/
  • In the USA, excellent diet support for children's behaviour is provided by the Feingold Association, using the old Feingold diet (not as effective as failsafe, but works well for some people), www.Feingold.org
  • In the UK, the Hyperactive Children's Support Group http://www.hacsg.org.uk/ strongly supports dietary management for children's behaviour, using the old Feingold diet. Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
  • An Australian website for people with chemical, environmental and food sensitivities: the Allergy, Sensitivity and Environmental Health Association of Queensland http://www.asehaqld.org.au/ and http://www.anres.org/
  • Learning Connections at http://www.learningconnections.com.au/ offer a full range of programs to help children with learning difficulties and are very failsafe-friendly. 
  • The Raising Difficult Children program in Australia for behaviour (and self) management once the diet is working http://www.difficultchildren.org/
  • Not failsafe, but useful for people who are gluten-intolerant: http://www.celiac.com/index.html
  • author Barbara Pheloung's website http://www.movetolearn.com.au/ for children with learning disabilities supports learning through movement programs and diet (not necessarily failsafe).
  • http://www.foodcanmakeyouill.co.uk/ provides a wide range of information based in part on Royal Prince Alfred Hospital's work.
  • This is how the government protects or fails to protect Australian and New Zealand consumers against the effects of harmful food additives: www.foodstandards.gov.au
  • The site Remedyfind is a non-commercial, unbiased, international site that allows patients to rate the effectiveness of different treatments they have used for specific chronic health conditions, including Asthma. http://www.everydayhealth.com/drugs/
  • www.kidsbehaviour.co.uk/home.htm has behavioural information

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