ban artificial flavors and colorants from food and drinks

Food is vital to our survival. However foods like twinkies and poptarts aren't really vital now are they? Truthfully, they shouldn't be considered food at all. We as consumers should be given the truth when it comes to what we buy and then put into our bodies. Artificial flavors and colorants hide the truth from what we are eating. They are literally chemicals being put into our food to make it appear and taste better. That's not natural and there is absolutely no need for them. The FDA makes sure that those chemicals are safe..but what defines safe? If we just get rid of them all together it will surely cause a decrease in obesity among Americans because no longer will we be buying these unhealthy products. We need to start to take the junk out of our food and this is the start we need.