Healing the New Childhood Epidemics

By Kenneth Bock M.D. and Cameron Stauth

Autism is an epidemic: It has spiked 1,500 percent in the last twenty years. ADHD, asthma and allergies have also skyrocketed over the same time period. One of these conditions now strikes one in every three children in America. But there is hope. Leading medical innovator Kenneth Bock, M.D., has helped change the lives of more than a thousand children, and in this important book, with a comprehensive program that targets all four of the 4-A disorders, he offers help to children everywhere. This is the book that finally puts hope within reach.

Doctors have generally overlooked the connections among the 4-A disorders, despite their concurrent rise and the presence of many medical clues. For years the medical establishment has considered autism medically untreatable and utterly incurable, and has limited ADHD treatment mainly to symptom suppression. Dr. Bock and his colleagues, however, have discovered a solution – one that goes to the root of the problem. They have found that deadly modern toxins, nutritional deficiencies, metabolic imbalances, genetic vulnerabilities and assaults on the immune and gastrointestinal systems trigger most of the symptoms of the 4-A disorders, resulting in frequent misdiagnosis and untold misery.

Dr. Bock’s remarkable Healing Program, drawing on medical research and based on years of clinical success, offers a safe, sensible solution that is individualized to each child to help remedy these root causes. The biomedical approach to autism, ADHD, and the other 4-A epidemics, as innovated by Dr. Bock and some of America’s finest integrative physicians, is one of the most promising and exciting medical movements of our time.

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The 9-Inch Diet

By Alex Bogusky and Chuck Porter

The 9-Inch Diet is the healthy eating plan America has been waiting for. Far from the fad diets that momentarily populate bestseller shelves, this book promotes a lifestyle that’s simple to understand and easy to stick to. Considering that, on average, we’re now consuming more than 300 excess calories per day, switching to a smaller plate can make a big difference. It’s hard to dispute the facts: by using a 9-inch plate at every meal, we can decrease our caloric intake by 30 to 35 percent! Written by Alex Bogusky with Chuck Porter, The 9-Inch Diet tackles new diet book territory—at one turn focusing on the psychology of why we eat the way we do, while at another providing detailed instructions on how to make plate stepping stones for your garden. Full of pop culture references and expert advice, it’s the first diet book that’s as comfortable on the coffee table as it is on the kitchen table. Bogusky and Porter run what is arguably the most creative advertising agency in the country, if not the world. With years of experience manipulating the masses, two of the best tricksters in the industry explain how you as a consumer are being duped, and how you are actually a part of the conspiracy to make you fat. But more importantly, they teach you how to break the cycle.

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Eat for Health

By Joel Fuhrman, M.D.

This two–book set teaches you how to prefer a health–promoting diet–style over a disease–promoting diet. The hallmark of healthy eating is to consume more foods that contain a high nutrient density and less food with a low nutrient density. To make it easy, Dr. Fuhrman has scored thousands of foods so that in each of the 4 phases, the nutrient density of the suggested menus increases. The outcome is that when you eat enough high nutrient foods you can reverse most medical problems without drugs. If diets never worked for you in the past this book will help you to understand why and motivate you to lose your excess weight and get well again.

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Newman’s Own Organics Guide to a Good Life

By Nell Newman and Joseph D’Agnese

The Newman’s Own Organics Guide to a Good Life is an essential book for those of us who care about our quality of life, global warming, clean water, and disappearing resources. Along with realistic, practical advice, the book illustrates how and why living a more environmentally conscious life benefits you and your immediate surroundings. In addition to recycling and reusing, the book covers consumer-related steps such as: how buying and eating organic food supports small farms (and tastes better, too), choosing to buy clean power through your regular power company, as well as where to buy everything–from pots and pans to pet food–so that you can “vote with your dollar” and feel good about your purchases. Packed with profiles of fascinating people and a heavy dose of sanity, this book is organized according to the way you really live, making it easy to identify what areas of change are viable for you. A resource directory of publications, retailers, groups, and associations is included in the back of the book.

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The Healthiest Kid in the Neighborhood

By William Sears, M.D. and Martha Sears, R.N.

It’s hardly a secret that too many American children don’t eat right. The frequency and severity of childhood illnesses—from depression to diabetes, from limited attention spans to cholesterol imbalance—have reached an all-time high, and this alarming situation can be directly linked to the food kids eat. With ubiquitous fast-food restaurants, junk food in schools, and high-risk sweeteners and trans-fats in snacks marketed directly to children, parents need help!

This book provides help in the form of an eating plan that’s already proved effective for countless American families. Their plan identifies foods and eating habits that can counter or prevent many common illnesses. It explains how parents can shape young tastes to crave the right proportions of healthy foods, and how young metabolisms can be programmed to make the most of the nutrients kids consume while their bodies and brains are growing.

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