The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Some primal answers for kids' problem behaviors.

Last week, Chris Cressor wrote a great article discussing the emerging and likely causative link between poor gut health and child misbehavior.

He explained potential mechanisms for the association as well as solutions to counter it.

But as any parent knows, getting a picky child

to adopt your arsenal of perfect gut supporting foods and supplements isn't always easy. Not

every kid immersed in the righteous anger of terrible twos will stop what he's doing to drink

sauerkraut juice, nibble on kimchi, take resistant starch, and drink keifer and bone

broth. It's certainly a major part of the problem and the solution. But are there any other

dietary causes? What else can a parent try to stem the flood of tantrums? I have seven suggestions

for you. Number one, ditch artificial food coloring.

Artificial food coloring hijacks the visual system designed to spot ripe fruit.

It's partly why kids gravitate toward bright green, red, yellow, and orange junk food.

These colors are attractive to us in part because for most of human history, they

indicated the presence of ripe fruit. Remember, our color vision also evolved so we could spot

venomous snakes lurking in the foliage. Tens of thousands of parents consider these food-dice

predators in their own right, swearing their kid goes berserk after

a few handfuls of neon candy.

The FDA has even looked into it, admitting that dyes might affect kids with pre-existing

ADHD.

Others think the feds were too cautious, or just plain dishonest, and more recent research

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