Joel Fuhrman - Disease-proof your child: feeding kids right

Praise for Disease-Proof Your Child

Should be required reading for every parent.

Howard F. Lyman; author of The Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the
Cattle Rancher Who Wont Eat Meat and No More Bull!: The Mad
Cowboy Targets Americas Worst Enemy: Our Diet

Joel Fuhrman; M.D., shares his nutritional and healing wisdom in this practical, readable book. [It] will help you give your offspring the healthiest start possible.

Michael Klaper, M.D., director of the Institute of Nutrition
Education and Research, Manhattan Beach, California

It is full of clarity, wisdom, and guidance you can trust and [the book] gives you the power to shape your childs health destiny.

John Robbins, author of The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can
Help Save Your Life and Our World; Reclaiming Our Health:
Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the Sources
of True Healing; and Diet for a New America: How Your
Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and
the Future of Life on Earth

Children dont need to be chronically sickas children or adults. Dr. Fuhrmans book compels parents to rethink the way they raise their children, starting with what they eat.

James Craner, M.D., M.P.H., consultant in occupational and
environmental medicine, Reno, Nevada, and assistant
clinical professor in the Department of Medicine,
University of California, San Francisco
School of Medicine

A powerful tool for insuring that the children you love will live healthy and happy lives.

Douglas J. Lisle, Ph.D., and Alan Goldhamer, D.C.,
authors of The Pleasure Trap: Mastering the Hidden
Force That Undermines Health & Happiness

Dr. Fuhrmans book offers your family the solution to the epidemic of obesity and sickness that afflicts nearly every child eating the rich Western diet.

John McDougall, M.D., director of the McDougall
Live-in Program, Santa Rosa, California

If you truly love your children and your grandchildren, or if you are simply concerned about the health of the nation, then read this book and put it into practice. Its light-years ahead and is a magnificent source of salvation for our children.

Groesbeck P. Parham, M.D., professor of gynecologic oncology and
preventive medicine, and senior scientist at the Comprehensive
Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham

The natural, clean, and simple approach to eating described in this book represents the ideal for healthy living today and preventing disease tomorrow. The connection between nutrition and disease is very real. There is abundant evidence that using the healthy food choices advocated for by Dr. Fuhrman will make a significant difference in the ability of children as well as adults to fight disease. If we as a society could even partially shift our approach to eating in the direction of the recommendations made in this book, we would see dramatic improvements in the challenges we currently face with obesity and many other childhood diseases.

Wayne S. Dysinger, M.D., M.P.H., chairman of the Department of
Preventive Medicine, Loma Linda University

The war against cancer is just beginning and the most powerful artillery in the scientific arsenal has just been launched. Disease-Proof Your Child is one of the most important health books of this century.

Thomas Davenport, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital
Fellowship/Harvard University, Microsurgery/Aesthetic
Surgery Fellowship/Memorial Sloan Kettering,
Webster International Fellowship/Interplast

It is simply unnecessary to die of heart disease and cancer. Dr. Fuhrmans book offers the lifesaving solution. I urge you to read it.

T. Colin Campbell, professor Emeritus of Nutritional
Biochemistry at Cornell University

Dr. Fuhrman provides information, easy to read and understand but science backed, that will help every parent raise healthy children who will later become disease-proofed adults.

Neal Pinckney, Ph.D., founder and director, Healing Heart Foundation,
author of Healthy Heart Handbook: How to Prevent and Reverse Heart
Disease, Lower Your Risk of Heart Attack and Cancer,
Reduce Stress, Lose Weight Without Hunger

An essential guide for every parent. The nutrition and health information, practical meal plans and recipes, and medical advice from one of our nations leading preventive medicine physicians is invaluable.

John Westerdahl, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D., nutrition editor,
Veggie Life magazine, director, Wellness & Lifestyle
Medicine, Castle Medical Center, Kailua, Hawaii

Disease-Proof
Your Child

Also by Joel Fuhrman, M.D.

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A Medical Doctors Program for Conquering Disease

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Feeding Kids Right

Joel Fuhrman, M.D.

ST. MARTINS GRIFFIN
NEW YORK

DISEASE-PROOF YOUR CHILD . Copyright 2005 by Joel Fuhrman, M.D. Foreword copyright 2005 by T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martins Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLIC ATION DATA

Fuhrman, Joel.

Disease-proof your child : feeding kids right / Joel Fuhrman.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223) and index (p.241).

ISBN-13: 978-0-312-33808-4

ISBN-10: 0-312-33808-2

1. ChildrenNutrition. 2. Diet therapy for children. 3. ChildrenHealth and hygiene. I. Tide.

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To my four wonderful children, who have made fatherhood the most joyous and valuable thing I do.
Talia
Jenna
Cara
Sean

I commend Dr. Joel Fuhrman for writing this book, Disease-Proof Your Child. In recent decades, much has been written on the relationship of diet and health or, more to the point, of diet and disease. Much of this literature has dealt with the so-called chronic degenerative diseases like the cardiovascular diseases, cancers, diabetes, and obesity. These are the diseases that primarily occur during adulthood and that command so much of our total health care costs.

But, in this rush to elaborate this information, far too little attention has been given to childhood nutrition and its large contribution to our adult health. It is for this reason, among others, that I believe readers will find Dr. Fuhrmans book to be so valuable. For children, the diseases of concern to many are of the communicable and infectious types. Do the foods that protect against adult diseases like heart disease and cancer, for example, protect against childhood diseases as wellespecially those like colds, flu, sore throats, and earaches that seem to come from school? Read this book and you will find plenty of evidence that the answer is a resounding yes. Healthy eating is a family thing: what is good for the young is also good for the elderly; what is good for one disease is mostly good for all diseases.