Disease-Proof Your Child: Feeding Kids Right

Until recently I had no idea the real importance of diet. In 2009 I was classified as morbidly obese. I lost the weight in part due to Dr Fuhrman's work. He is informative and his work is eye opening particularly when it comes to the food pyramid. What we were taught in school was so wrong!This book goes into great detail explaining how disease occurs in the body, how diet can protect and reverse disease in children and gives clear dietry guidance including tasty recipes in the back of the book.I have used the guidance and recipes in this book with my son and myself. He loves the recipes as do I. He is rarely ill.I have bought this book as a gift for friends and family on a number of occasions and I'm sure will do so again.

Great book to help our children and meet their health needs.Highly recommended.

Very informative and helpful. Not sure if I can put all the suggested eating habits into place with my little grandsons, one of whom is a very finicky eater. Recipes need quite a bit of preparation and not sure I have the time to do them all. I also spent £50 at the health food store on nuts, seeds, dried fruits etc, so not the cheapest way to live. However, any little tweak of our eating habits will hopefully escalate into a healthier lifestyle for the next generation.

Well written highly very informative book. Love that it included some recipes at the back

Great product. Thank you for the prompt delivery.

Great book to read

Great book, written in simple and understandable manner. I love the recipes in the back. We should all consider, what we feed to our children and how it will affect their health and overall quality of life in the future.

I enjoyed Reading this book because it opened my eyes to just how important nutrition is to a health immune system. The recipes however, the main reason for buying, were a bit too complicated if you are to try introdce new foods to your child's diet.

Book arrived on time, well - packaged.The book was as it should be for a new copy.No complaints about the service at all.

This is a great resource for parents who really want to do the very best for their children. We are in the era of fake fast food and Dr. Furhman brings us back to real food and balance. We have used this information successfully to avoid antibiotics for an ear infection in our grand daughter. Her parents held firm and let her immune system do its work which it did beautifully. She is 15 months old, still breastfeeding some, and has one cold with an ear infection. We actually bought the book for her physician who has shown interest in nutrition. It would be wonderful if physicians were educated in health and prevention instead of illness and treating symptoms. Bravo Dr. Fuhrman.

fuer alle Eltern denen die Gesundheit ihrere Kinder am Herzen liegt!Der Autor hat nach jahrelanger Erfahrung viel zu erzaehlen.

Disease-Proof Your Child does two things no other book has ever done. First, it clearly and persuasively presents scientific research that shows what our children eat now will more or less determine their risk of developing cancer and other killer diseases as adults. After reading the first few pages, you will never again view sodas, donuts, fries, pizzas, candies and other "All-American" junk foods as innocent again.Allowing and encouraging our kids to eat this garbage on a regular basis is excusable only when we don't know what we're doing. Now that Dr. Fuhrman has exposed the truth - we can cause or prevent 99% of all diseases by what we eat - no parent who reads this book will be able to allow their child to develop "cancer on the installment plan" through malnutrition. And if you're not into long-term thinking, Dr. Fuhrman also demonstrates the link between the Standard American Diet and the national epidemics of childhood asthma, ear infections, colds, flus, and allergies.So a warning: do not buy this book unless you're willing to exert your responsibility to protect your children. If you read it and do nothing, you'll go through hell as you watch your kids poisoning themselves with their favorite addictive substances and starving their immune systems by not eating nutrient rich foods.Which brings me to the second thing this book does that no other has: it provides tools and a roadmap and a philosophy for transitioning your family to a healthy diet. Remember paint by numbers? This is the diet transition equivalent. From practical ideas (the "refigerator advertisements" is a wonderful example) to over 50 recipes ("string beans and almost dust" will blow you away with its simplicity and how much your kids will love it) to lists of delicious "non-recipe snacks" that ensure you'll always have healthy alternatives to junk fod - Disease-Proof Your Child is a well-written and well thought out "operations manual" to your most important job as a parent: setting your child up for a lifetime of health and happiness.In Disease-Proof Your Child, Dr. Fuhrman explains:- how to prepare your home for eating healthfully before making the shift- why "three meals a day" is a recipe for failure when it comes to feeding kids right- why focusing on quality, not quantity, is the key to healthy eating- why "consistent but not perfect" is more effective than 100% "compliance"- when and where it's OK to compromise- how to teach your kids never to "diet"- how to reform the picky eaterDr. Fuhrman is not an armchair researcher. He runs a family practice, and offers many case studies that show exactly how families transitioned successfully to a healthy diet - even when both parents thought their child's eating habits were a lost cause.After reading the first half of the book, you will be shocked, angry, and motivated like crazy to do something to save your kids from a lifetime of obesity and disease. The second half of the book, the solution, is going to get dog-eared and underlined and photocopied and food-spattered. You're going to want to recommend it to your friends, mostly because you won't be able to part with your own copy. I already find I need two - one for my study and another for the cookbook shelf.There are few books ever written that have to potential to have such a huge positive impact on the well-being of your family. Is it easy to put this into practice? Not at first. But is it worth it? Try the following thought experiment:It's 35 years from now. Your child is a grownup, with a kid in elementary school and another in high school. You get to choose one of the following scenarios: a) your child is a healthy and vibrant adult, at the prime of life; or b) your child has just been diagnosed with cancer, possibly fatal within 3 years.I know that's stark. But the links between what we feed our kids now and their health as adults are that real. Try the thought experiment for 2 minutes and see what moves within you.If you're not able to link current behavior with the long-term future, here's another experiment:What if you were able to prevent most of the ear infections, allergies, colds, feveres, and severe asthma attacks that your child gets on a regular basis? The long nights up with a crying child, the endless trips to the doctor for another round of antibiotics, the missed events, the feelings of "when will they outgrow it"? That's a real outcome too.Please - as a health educator, as a parent, as someone who cares about the world we're sending our kids into - I urge you to get and study this book.

This book should be required reading for everyone. The simple task of eating a nutritious diet can save your life. Dr. Furhman drives that home in Disease-Proof Your Child. Meanwhile, it seems most people continually feed both themselves and their children harmful foods that have no business on our plates. I've long been opposed to meat and dairy consumption, but I've learned even more about why that's a healthful choice. I'll do all I can to raise my daughter using the knowledge I've gained reading this book.