The best kid-friendly recipes and guide to the gluten-free milk-free diet for ADHD and Autism.
What it is. Why it works. How to do it.The Centers for Disease Control reports significant increases in Autism and ADHD - both affecting primarily boys. The CDC estimates that 1 out of 175 children (age 4 to 17) currently have Autism (300,000). Before 1985, Autism occurred in less than 1 out of 2000. ADHD is much more common in that it affects 4.4 million U.S. children (age 4 to 17).
Common to both of these conditions is the negative impact of certain foods - especially milk products and glutens such as wheat(and to a lesser degree - soy and corn.) One of the challenges that parents face is coping with children who have picky appetites and crave the very foods that affect their behavior, focus and development. The other challenge is finding ways to get their children to eat healthy foods and improve their nutritional status.
The uniqueness of this book is that it not only provides gluten-free milk-free substitutes and recipes, it provides successful suggestions for feeding the picky eater. The authors share details about just how and why the diet works. The specialty ingredients are explained and extensive sources provided. There are also testimonials from the parents and from the children themselves.
Pamela Compart, M.D., is a developmental pediatrician and a functional medicine physician. She is the founder and director of HeartLight Healing Arts, Inc., which is an integrated health care center providing comprehensive traditional and complementary medicine services for children and adults.
Dana Godbout Laake is a licensed nutritionist in Kensington, Maryland. Within her practice, Dana Laake Nutrition, she provides preventive and therapeutic medical nutrition services. An honors graduate from Temple University (health sciences, dental hygiene), she received her masters’ degree in nutrition from the University of Maryland. She was recipient of the Temple University 50th Anniversary Outstanding Alumnus award. Dana was co-author of the legislation which established licensure boards for dietetics and nutrition in both Maryland and Washington, DC. In addition to writing, media presentations, and accreditation as a provider of professional continuing education courses, Ms. Laake has been a Maryland Legislative Assistant on health issues and has served four Gubernatorial appointments on two health care regulatory boards (dentistry and dietetics). She has hosted a live radio show "Health Talk 2000". Her practice includes nutritional evaluation and treatment of the full spectrum of health issues affecting adults and special children with special needs. She resides in Kensington with her husband Peter Laake and they have four sons and two grandchildren.
