Cure Your Child with Food: The Hidden Connection Between Nutrition and Childhood Ailments - Softcover

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.

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.” —Maurine Packard, MD, Pediatric Neurologist, New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center