Do you use regular dyes to dye your eggs or do you use all natural dyes?

When I was growing up, we always used the store bought coloring kits. But now that I am getting older, researching the effects of artificial food coloring and what it does to our bodies, made me take a step back and look at alternatives. There are many different studies that show that artificial food coloring are toxic, and they are why a lot of food coloring products are being banned, all over the U.K. Here is one of the many articles & studies I’ve read on the matter:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23026007

If you read that and find it troublesome, or want to know about alternatives and all natural food coloring continue on down.

Here’s a very interesting clip on the subject of natural food dyes:

http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/blog/dyeing-easter-eggs-natural-way

This makes me think how amazingly mother nature works, you can look for just about anything and you will find it in nature. For almost any sickness, more natural treatments can easily be found and accessed. However, it’s to be understood that medicine from pharmaceuticals have extensive research and development, which most times entails a higher understanding of how they react with the human body.

This, however, can lead to the misconception that pharmaceuticals are the end of the road, and that no other alternative medicine can possibly manage or eradicate symptoms as well as treat causes. As the notion that any and all alternative medicine being a sham is untrue, there are clear cases where doctors and native american “shamans” still to this day use and practice a more natural approach to curing sicknesses.

I found intriguing that traditional medicine doctors and “shamans” had similar alternative ways of treatment, and to be honest I didn’t believe it at first, but have since then extensively researched and used natural medicines to cure myself, my husband and my daughter of small ailments, like for example the common cold, bruises and cuts, early caught infections, etc. Over the winter, we had the unfortunate bronchitis that everyone seemed to have, but through using a natural product called Bronchosan, within a week of taking it as intended we were much better/functional then within two weeks were almost completely rid of it.

The medicine is sold by a well known company for homeopathic and natural medicine A.Vogel. (which for the record we are not in any way affiliated with), to be used only as an example. In summary, I’m not saying every single natural medicine out there works, but I do think it’s worth giving them a try before putting something most likely in some way toxic with a two-page list of side effects into my body.

Would you rather cure your body with stuff that is natural and easily assimilated, with nearly 0 side effects?

or

With pharmaceuticals, that have enough side effects to warrant entire academic studies around?