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Also go to goodparentingtipsblog.com for good parenting tips. We are what we eat. Moreover we need to be more careful about what we put in our children’s mouths. Studies have shown that we have reason to be concerned about the relationship between food and behavior. Our food is depleted of nutrients because of changes in agricultural practices adopted in the seventies. What we eat is contaminated by additives. We also tend to over process our food, thus further depleting it of nutrients. First, changes in agricultural practices have changed the nature of our food. In his book, "Anticancer A New Way of Life," Dr. Servan-Schreiber locates the paucity of omega fatty 3 acids in our modern diet in the dietary changes of our modern cows. Grass pastures are naturally rich in omega 3′s. The replacement of grass pastures with battery farming in the seventies has changed our cattle feed from grass to a mixture of corn, soy and wheat which are wholly devoid of omega 3 fatty acids. Battery farming has literally taken omega 3 out of the human food chain. Research has shown that children with ADHD have lower concentrations of omega 3, specifically DHA in their bodies, a situation that has already been linked with an increased risk of depression and brain deterioration. Researchers have also linked the doubling of fatty tissues in children between 1970 and 1990 to the change in the character of milk coming from corn fed cows. Second, most of us are unaware of the added …