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 Grounded in cutting-edge science and filled with case studies that read like medical mysteries, Cure Your Child with Food-now newly updated-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. 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 (Eliminate, Add, Try), and how to get kids off drugs-antibiotics, laxatives, Prozac, Ritalin-and back to a state of natural well-being. Revised and updated with latest medical information, 2020. "In her terrific book, Kelly Dorman 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."

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