{"id":232329,"date":"2025-06-27T10:09:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T14:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=232329"},"modified":"2025-06-27T10:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T14:09:15","slug":"podcast-angst-over-additives-in-our-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2025\/06\/podcast-angst-over-additives-in-our-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Angst Over Additives in Our Food"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The “UConn Health Pulse” podcast brings a variety of expertise on health topics to the general public.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In light of efforts at the federal level to restrict certain food dyes, it can be challenging to separate fact from myth when it comes to things in our food that aren\u2019t naturally occurring.<\/p>\n

Dr. Rebecca Andrews<\/a>, UConn Health primary care physician whose roles include director of primary care, associate program director of UConn\u2019s Internal Medicine Residency, and nationally, chair of the American College of Physicians Board of Regents, has been following the science, and joins the \u201cUConn Health Pulse\u201d podcast to help differentiate between the potential risks of food additives and the benefits of natural, whole foods, why we may be paying more attention to this now, and how to navigate the noise to try to make good choices.<\/p>\n

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If you make foods more attractive, more tasty, and they make us feel good, we can develop almost food addictions or unhealthy eating. — Dr. Rebecca Andrews<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/span><\/p>\n

Listen now:<\/h2>\n