Disease-Proof Your Child: Feeding Kids Right
by Joel Fuhrman
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Book Reviews of Disease-Proof Your Child: Feeding Kids Right
Book Review: "Children aren't responsible for poor food choices--their parent's are."
Summary: 5 Stars
This book should be required reading for everyone who has a child (or one on the way) or who works with children. Rather than pumping our children up with sugar, toxins, carcinogens and frankenfood and then medicating them for the side effects, why not just feed them what nature intended and watch them thrive. Behavioral issues as well as serious health concerns can be resolved, alleviated, or completely avoided with a few lifestyle adjustments.
Dr. Fuhrman drives home an important point: it's one thing to trash your own health with poor choices, but it's negligent and irresponsible to trash the health of trusting children.
The tone of the book is not scolding however, just direct. In fact when he's done explaining the consequences of poor food choices (diabetes, heart disease, cancer, etc.), he comes accross very upbeat and and encouraging with ideas for coping with the bombardment of toxic food out there. He also has great suggestions for meals and treats.
Forget about what one reviewer said about nut allergies. This book not only has alternatives for eating nuts, but offers suggestions to help Prevent nut allergies. I also don't agree with the person who says it's "difficult". It's very simple and straightforward and really the only thing making it difficult is lack of education, unscrupulous marketing techniques, and the limiting belief that children won't eat healthy food.
This is a book full of hope and an important work. At long last, an MD is addressing children's diets in a real way. Two books that go along quite nicely with this one is THE CHINA STUDY by Campbell and GREEN FOR LIFE by Boutenko. The former illustrates in great detail with hard evidence why a vegan diet is necessary and the later focuses on greens. GFL gave me the idea for green smoothies (example: bannanas and greens such as kale or swiss chard) which are a fantastic way of getting the daily comsumption of greens Dr. Fuhrman recommends. I have never been a fan of Kale, but you honestly cannot even taste it when prepared this way and kids Love it! You will need a high powered blender for this (Fuhrman recommends Vitamix, but I prefer the Blendtec) which is expensive, but worth every penny. In the end, this diet is way cheaper than the standard American diet (SAD).
This book is the real thing, nothing gimmicky at all. Read it and thrive!
Book Review: A "must have" book.
Summary: 5 Stars
Every parent not only should own this book but keep it within easy reach as it will become a valuable resource as you navigate your way through the bewildering world of feeding your child.
If only I would have had this book when my children were little I could have spared myself those constant trips to the pediatrician for ear infections, colds, allergies and asthma and saved myself a bundle on antibiotics.
Not to mention the pain and suffering of my children!
So do yourself and your kids a favor read this book and get yourselves on this life changing diet and good health will be one of those worries you will be able to scratch off of your life list.
Find out why the Standard American Diet is really just SAD food for you and your child.
The back of the book has recipies to help you on your way to a happy, healthy, long life.
No child need suffer these common childhood complaints Dr. Furhman tells it like it is...tells it like your doctor probably won't, your childs nutrition is the key to their good health.
Book Review: A must read for parents
Summary: 5 Stars
We, as parents, have to step up and start educating our children about healthy eating. As a mother of 3 boys I have to say you can do it.
Even my 3 year old loves fruits and veggies. We simply don't have junk food in the house. The boys eat on average 10 fruits and vegetables every day and they really enjoy them. When they occasionally eat junk food at parties they moan about feeling sick. As their bodies are no longer use to junk food.
Some of the recipes in the book seem a little hard and I consider myself a good cook. However, you can make modifications and still eat really healthy.
My kids are rarely ever sick and I truly believe that the healthy diet has something to do with that.
Book Review: If you have a nut allergy, don't bother getting this book.
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this book with great anticipation, and I was SORELY disappointed. One of my children has a severe (life-threatening) nut allergy, and most of the recipes/meal plans are filled with nuts. Since the author uses nuts as a main source of protein and doesn't offer nut-free alternatives, this book was basically useless to me. Book Review: Fascinating---but difficult!
Summary: 4 Stars
This book puts forth many, many convincing arguments for feeding children a mostly plant-based diet. I don't doubt that this would be extremely beneficial for my kids.
The chapter on how to actually accomplish this seemed insufficient to me. The advice boiled down to: just do it. Don't feed your kids unhealthy food, don't even have it in the house, and they'll have no choice but to eat their veggies. Perhaps this would work, but I don't feel able to follow this advice at this time. I have two-year-old twin boys, and I am often by myself. It's hard enough even to follow the routine as it stands now.
Perhaps someone with a more manageable situation could "just do it." My plan is to try a bit later, when I can reason with them a bit more (perhaps rewarding them for trying new things, and the like).
In the meantime, this book has made me feel constantly guilty about the diet I feed my children. I do keep trying to get them to eat vegetables, but of course, if they have a choice they choose something else.
I suppose I'd recommend this book with the caveat that for most people, eating this way would be a major change.