"While America fails to regulate artificial coloring, other countries are taking dyes' potential health impacts seriously. The E.U., for example, recently passed a law mandating that all foods containing artificial dyes must come with warning labels on the front of the package. Many European products - like Fanta soda and McDonald's sundaes - use natural food extracts while their American counterparts still rely on synthetic coloring."
Kelly Dorfman is a first-rate nutritional detective. Dorfman has been a nutritionist for nearly 30 years, and has a wealth of experience to back up her findings. What's Eating Your Child? The Hidden Connections Between Food and Childhood Ailments is very readable and extremely helpful for parents.
If you love following clues and figuring out puzzles, you'll enjoy reading along with her examples and trying to be a detective with her. If you just want to find out some specifics because of a concern you have, that's also easy to do, and the information is very applicable. Parents will be able to check whether their child's symptoms match enough of a specific food intolerance or deficiency to check with their doctor; or they may follow her guidelines for doing a trial for that food. Dorfman gives the science behind her suggestions, and many references, but the book is organized so well that you can pick and choose which areas you want more information on (and which ones you just need to get the general gist).
Dorfman teaches the reader to look with new eyes at the clues in plain sight, and ask whether there is something irritating, something missing, or a combination of both.
Her focus on "bio-individuality" fits in beautifully with HANDLE, as does her wise but common sense understanding of the holistic nature of the human system. Hyperactivity, moodiness, inattention, recurrent ear infections, picky eating, and the like are clues that lead down the road to nutritional solutions that work with HANDLE's organized movement activities in a mutually supportive way. This is a book not to miss."
What's Eating Your Child? The Hidden Connections Between Food and Childhood Ailments by Kelly Dorfman, MS, LND (Workman Publishing Company, Inc., 2011). Available from Amazon.
The review above is from the HANDLE INSTITUTE. HANDLE is an approach to neurodevelopmental irregularities that is simple, non-invasive, empowering, non-drug. It is an approach designed to enhance neurological systems that are causing learning or life difficulties.
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