This is an important book! Written by Kelly Dorfman, a sought-after nutritionist whose typical family in her practice comes to her after already having seen three or more medical specialists, "What's Eating Your Child?" brilliantly reveals the hidden connections between nutrition and chronic childhood ailments while giving parents simple, straightforward tools to understand and solve their children's problems. Grounded in cutting-edge science and filled with case studies that read like medical thrillers, "What's Eating Your Child?" reveals that what children eat affects how they thrive. There's in-depth information on the surprising problems caused by gluten-intolerance, and - short of full-blown celiac disease - how difficult it is to diagnose. On why artificial sweeteners are worse than sugar, and why soy milk is a poor substitute for cow's milk. On how to cure sleep disorders with melatonin, hyperactivity with magnesium, anxiety with fish oil. Parents learn quickly how to become their own nutrition detectives, and how to implement the very simple EAT program to recalibrate their children's diets. They'll understand, at last, how to talk with a doctor about nutrition; why to choose organic; how to pick quality vitamins, minerals, probiotics and supplements; and, how to get their children off drugs - antiobiotics, laxatives, Prozac, Ritalin - and back to a natural state of well-being.
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The book as practiced in real life
17 May 2011
By Kathy Faubion
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This review is going to be primarily a review of the author, based on my family's direct personal experience, and how she has practiced what she wrote about in her book. Our son was a 90% height and 90% weight baby and early toddler. As he entered preschool, his height remain 90% but weight dropped to 50%. Through elementary school, he continued to lose ground, reaching about 50% height and 10% weight around 6th or 7th grade. Added to this, he demonstrated ADD (although not hyperactive) and anxiety problems, he had regular diarrhea and significant gas. We were scared. We tried child therapy, psychiatry, and eventually turned briefly to ADD medications (with horrible results). Finally, one of his teachers pointed us to Kelly Dorfman, who worked within a drivable distance. We contacted her through email, sent her records of our son's eating, and spoke with her on the phone. She concluded he wasn't absorbing what he was eating. She ordered some digestive tests, we met with her, and she recommended some supplements and diet changes. Over the next year, our son gained 20 lbs and grew about 8 inches. He's now 16 yrs old, pushing 6 feet, and his other symptoms have improved tremendously. Kelly Dorfman knows what she's talking about. Oh, and yes, my wife read the book and loved it.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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Amazing results right away
23 Feb 2012
By Laura M. Bangerter
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I'm not exactly sure what my intention was in reading this book. Curiosity mostly. I had some concerns about my daughter's health, but I honestly didn't expect any amazing answers from this book, but thankfully I was wrong. Chapter seven described my daughter perfectly--short in stature (3rd percentile for height though she has maintained that curve for a few years), extremely picky, small appetite, loose bowel movements, and an extremely sensitive sense of smell, but other than that very smart and energetic. I had googled her smelling issue, but couldn't find anything relevant, but it did seem abnormal. Almost all food smelled bad to her. She couldn't eat dinner with us at the same table. Bananas were the worst. She hated the smell of bananas and could smell them across the house. There were always arguments when her sister wanted to eat one.
Her symptoms exactly matched that of someone who is deficient of zinc. I immediately started giving her a supplement and within 4 days she was eating bananas! She almost seems to be a different person. She primarily subsisted on oatmeal, pasta, bread and apples and occasionally a few other things. Now she is eating meat, she is willing to try other foods, her appetite is greater, and she can sit next to someone who is eating something she doesn't want to, and not complain of the awful smell, she doesn't complain as much about textures of food and different food touching. I am optimistic that she will continue to expand her diet. I am so thankful that I read this book and it had this information in it. Meal times have become so much less stressful. After two weeks taking the supplement, all her symptoms are gone and I am anxious to see if she experiences a growth spurt soon. Thank you, thank you, thank you Kelly Dorfman for writing this book! I would like to see one for adults addressing issues like migraines, headaches, acne, joint stiffness, etc.
Her symptoms exactly matched that of someone who is deficient of zinc. I immediately started giving her a supplement and within 4 days she was eating bananas! She almost seems to be a different person. She primarily subsisted on oatmeal, pasta, bread and apples and occasionally a few other things. Now she is eating meat, she is willing to try other foods, her appetite is greater, and she can sit next to someone who is eating something she doesn't want to, and not complain of the awful smell, she doesn't complain as much about textures of food and different food touching. I am optimistic that she will continue to expand her diet. I am so thankful that I read this book and it had this information in it. Meal times have become so much less stressful. After two weeks taking the supplement, all her symptoms are gone and I am anxious to see if she experiences a growth spurt soon. Thank you, thank you, thank you Kelly Dorfman for writing this book! I would like to see one for adults addressing issues like migraines, headaches, acne, joint stiffness, etc.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Not quite what I expected...
13 Nov 2012
By J. Tyler
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Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I was super excited to read this book. I have been battling behavior issues with my son and wanted a dietary fix instead of a pharmaceutical fix. The first half of the book was great - talking about milk allergies, gluten allergies, effects of sugar, etc... but then she started talking about adding whole grains to the diet and soy products. As a Paleo follower, this was appalling to me, so I stopped reading. I browsed the chapters list to see if there was anything else I felt was relavent to our lifestyle and found nothing. I did like the chapter on "picky eating" and have implemented her suggestion of adding a multi that includes lots of zinc (Flinstones Complete has 12 mg of zinc per serving) and an Omega 3 (found one at Amazon.com that uses fish as the omega 3 source instead of plants). I like her advice about eliminating dairy, gluten and sugar as possible triggers for poor behavior, and her suggestions for supplements to improve sensory issues, vitamin deficiencies, and the like.
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