"Why treat your child with drugs when you can cure him/her with food? What's Eating Your Child?: The Hidden Connection Between Food and Your Child's Well-Being reveals the hidden connections between nutrition and chronic childhood ailments, and gives parents the simple straightforward solutions they need to help their children thrive."

About the Book:
"What's Eating Your Child? is about the connections between common ailments such as chronic ear infections, reflux, tummy aches, picky eating, poor growth, mood and behavior problems and your child’s diet. Most people agree that a good diet is important but few know how to decipher the effect food has on their health. What's Eating Your Child? will help parents, medical professionals, teachers and caretakers identify possible dietary links and address the problem."

About the Author:
"Kelly Dorfman is known as a nutrition detective because she helps people find the possible hidden links between their symptoms/illnesses and their diet. She has been helping people develop nutrition strategies to address problems from chronic bad moods to strange rashes to sleep problems for almost 30 years. Many of the people seeking her services are the parents of children with vexing and persistent issues that have resisted traditional medical treatment.

She teaches workshops on how to use nutrition therapeutically all over the country. In addition, she has written dozens of articles and has been quoted in many publications, including the Washington Post. Her formal credentials include a master’s degree in nutrition/biology and a dietitian/nutritionist license."

My Take:
My son Dovid is quite underweight - less than 25 lbs and he's over 2 years old - and he just doesn't eat very much. He will eat a variety of fruits, veggies, meat/chicken and dairy, but he doesn't eat as much as his sister does. It has been this way since he was about 9 months old, although even earlier than that he would take less formula than Chana would at any given feeding.

There's an entire chapter in What's Eating Your Child? devoted to "The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow," which immediately stood out to me. My little boy won't grow either! The boy in this chapter, Liam, just wasn't very hungry and it turns out he had a zinc deficiency. A zinc deficiency can cause some people to lose their appetites and even makes food taste funny. A simple test using zinc sulfate can screen for a zinc deficiency. I'm planning to order a bottle to test Dovid to see if this might be his problem, and if so then I can start him on a zinc supplement and make sure he's getting foods rich in zinc (such as beef and poultry) every day.

Other interesting chapters are "The Child Who Wouldn't Fall Asleep," Two Cases of Chronic Ear Infections," The Child Who Couldn't Speak in Sentences," and "The Toddler Who Could Not Stop Spitting Up." If there's something going on with your child and doctors can't find anything obviously wrong, there could be a nutritional reason for it.

Cost: You can buy What's Eating Your Child? from Amazon.com for $11.02.

Overall: We give What's Eating Your Child? a 10/10!

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We were sent copy of the book "What's Eating Your Child?" free of charge for the sole purpose of this review; no other compensation was received. All opinions expressed are my own.