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Parents who suspect that artificial ingredients in food are affecting their children's behavior can now point to some cold, hard proof. A carefully designed study released Thursday in The Lancet, a leading British medical journal, shows that a variety of common food dyes and the preservative sodium benzoate - an ingredient in many soft drinks, fruit juices, salad dressings and other foods - causes some children to become more hyperactive and distractible than usual...
Opitz said that a hospital nurse told him that the sodium level in his blood was supposed to be around 135 moles per liter, but his had fallen down to just over 127 moles per liter...
Last Tuesday, Javier J. Castro ’09 was hospitalized for dangerously low sodium and electrolyte levels, and on Wednesday, Opitz was admitted to Mount Auburn hospital and placed on intravenous saline solution...
University To Meet with SLAM (May 9, 2007): The University agrees to meet with student protesters to discuss their demands the same day that one of the students participating in the hunger strike is hospitalized for dangerously low sodium and electrolyte levels. The University also announces an independent firm will review the security guards’ contracts and ensure they meet Harvard’s parity standards for direct and indirect hires...
...Wednesday afternoon, a second undergraduate participating in the strike was hospitalized for dangerously low sodium levels. Matthew A. Opitz ’10 was admitted to Mount Auburn Hospital and placed on intravenous saline solution. He was released at 5:30 p.m. and is continuing with the hunger strike, according to a statement released by the Stand for Security Coalition...