Grounded in cutting-edge science, Cure Your Child with Food reveals the hidden connections between nutrition and chronic childhood ailments, and gives parents the simple, straightforward solutions they need to help their children thrive.
Discover how zinc deficiency can cause picky eating and affect growth. The panoply of problems caused by dairy and gluten. How to cure sleep disorders with melatonin, hyperactivity with magnesium, anxiety with fish oil.
Kelly Dorfman, a nutritionist whose typical patient arrives at her practice after seeing three or more specialists, gives parents the tools to become nutrition detectives themselves. She shows how to recalibrate children's diets through the easy E.A.T. program, and how to get kids off drugs—antibiotics, laxatives, Prozac, Ritalin—and back to a state of natural well-being.
"In her terrific book, Kelly Dorfman clearly explains how to decipher the clues to nutritional disorders that affect the body and brain. Parents will find it packed with sound advice and useful information." —Maurine Packard, MD, pediatric neurologist
A Nautilus Book Award Gold winner.
Kelly Dorfman, MS, LND, specializes in finding nutritional solutions to common ailments. She writes for the Huffington Post, is a columnist for Living Without magazine, and has been featured in and written dozens of articles on health and nutrition. In addition, she lectures on diet and health around the country and has appeared on CNN and Fox News. Her practice is located outside of Washington, D.C.
Foreword
Introduction
Part One: Nutrition Detection at Work
Chapter 1: How important is nutrition, really?
Chapter 2: Becoming a nutrition detective
Chapter 3: The conundrum of pick eating
Chapter 4: The E.A.T. Program: What it is and how it works
Part Two: When the Body Behaves Badly
Chapter 5: The toddler who could not stop spitting up
Chapter 6: The girl whose tummy always hurt
Chapter 7: The case of the boy who wouldn’t grow
Chapter 8: The little colon that couldn’t
Chapter 9: A case of chicken skin
Part Three: Kids and Their Many Moods
Chapter 10: The child who wouldn’t fall asleep
Chapter 11: Hyper and annoying: Otherwise known as Tyler and Oscar
Chapter 12: The bipolar child who wasn’t
Chapter 13: The worrier
Part Four: Learning and Behavior in Kids
Chapter 14: Two cases of chronic ear infections
Chapter 15: The tales of Chuck and Dale
Chapter 16: The child who couldn’t speak in sentences
Chapter 17: The overly sensitive child
Chapter 18: Frequently asked questions
The Last Word
References
Index