Food Dye and Behavior

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

Medical History, Health & Fitness, History, Medicine, Comedy, Sawbones

4.8 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Do artificially colored food dyes make your kids behave badly? This sounds like it could be true, and is certainly alluring to parents as an easy fix. But are they actually related? In the 1940s, Dr. Benjamin Feingold was set to research just that, believing that food dye not only could cause bad behavior, but was linked to asthma, eczema, and hives. But the solution to how to solve any of these problems is a bit extreme – too extreme to be practical or even show any real results. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/

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0:00.0	Saubones is a show about medical history, and nothing the hosts say should be taken as medical advice or opinion.
0:07.0	It's for fun. Can't you just have fun for an hour and not try to diagnose your mystery boil?
0:14.0	We think you've earned it. Just sit back, relax, and enjoy a moment of distraction from that weird growth.
0:22.0	You're worth it.
0:24.0	Alright, Tommy is about to books. One, two, one, two, three, four.
0:33.0	We came across a pharmacy with a toy and that's lost it out. We were shot through the broken glass and had ourselves a look around.
0:56.0	Hello everybody and welcome to Saubones, a marital tour of Miskite in medicine. I am not the birthday boy. My name is Justin McRoy.
1:13.0	I'm Sydney McRoy and I am the birthday boy.
1:17.0	No, well, no, I mean, you are, it's your birthday. It's your birthday.
1:23.0	Right, it's my birthday. I can podcast if I want to.
1:26.0	Or if you don't want to because the podcast trains got a run regardless. Right, that's true. Well, I love to Justin.
1:33.0	I love to share this information. I know you do.
1:36.0	And entertain people with the medical mishaps of your or now or now or now or whatever.
1:42.0	As it can be. No, this is a very special episode because well, one, we are recording on my birthday.
1:48.0	Which is, I mean, don't get more special than that. Well, it's the most special day of the year. I think we can all agree on that.
1:55.0	But also because of who suggested this topic. Yes, a friend Vanessa.
2:00.0	Yes, our dear friend Vanessa sent an email VLN to Justin about some some supposed concerns about cereal.
2:11.0	Yes, she had received the email. She didn't have the concerns. No, she had the she got email about concerns about cereal.
2:16.0	Concerns about different additives that can be in cereal. This was for to adjust and for to me like, hey, what do you think Sydney?
2:23.0	And I said, you know what we have never talked about mainly food dies preservatives to the idea that artificial food dies have some effect on behavior.
2:34.0	And that seems like a big like a big miss for us. Like why haven't we talked about it yet? That's a that's a big plot hole.
2:43.0	I don't think it's I mean, not I mean, we don't have a cogent narrative to the solvents podcast.
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