Most parents of young children try to feed their kids healthy foods for many reasons, including the avoidance of mood swings that can be caused by candy and junk food.  But it probably never occurred to us that this might work for adolescents as well.  This story of a high school’s transformation is really quite amazing, and by simply changing the students’ diets, they successfully addressed problems like truancy, drop-outs and weapons violations. 

Even if you don’t have children in high school, this article is worth a read.  An allergy physician at Kaiser Permanente advocates that we eliminate all synthetic flavors and colors from our diets, regardless of our age, and offers a comparison childrens’ intake in the 1940’s with today, even from products like toothpaste.  For parents, this is an eye-opening look at how the food on our dinner table can shape our childrens’ personalities---and probably ours too.