Disease-Proof Your Child: Feeding Kids Right

by Joel Fuhrman

Book Overview

Disease-Proof Your Child features easy-to-prepare, kid-friendly recipes that will satisfy even the pickiest eaters, and will help your whole family establish life-long healthful eating habits.

Harness the power of a nutrient-rich diet to ensure a lifetime free of illness and full of health

In his private practice, Joel Fuhrman, M.D. helps families transform their eating habits and recover their health...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312338082
• ISBN13: 9780312338084
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Disease-Proof Your Child: Feeding Kids Right is an awesome book!

So needed in today’s fast-food mentality. It’s well-written and easy to follow with great recipe ideas. I’m ordering enough copies to give to all my children so my grandchildren will get a good start for a healthy life!

The Greatest Diet on Earth

This is one book that no parent(s) or "potential" parent(s) should be without. It talks about "to be" mothers and the foods they eat can affect their childs development before they are even conceived. Visit DrFuhrman.com and DiseaseProof.com for tons of recipes and podcasts on how to feed your children. I have recommended this book more than any other book in my life, well maybe Eat To Live (Dr. Fuhrman's weight loss book) gets a fair share of recommendationos as well. This book is the fountain of youth everyone is looking for, give your children the best possible chance to have a disease free life. It also talks about how children that are breast fed longer (1-2 years) tend to have higher IQ scores in studies. One thing about Dr. Fuhrman is that he is a Medical Doctor (not a nutritionist) and he has 4 kids of his own and he has read and reviewed over 60,000 medical studies. he bases everything off of solid facts/studies. He does not favor just one study, he makes sure lots of studies agree on something, so there will be no science fiction in this book, everything is heavily referenced in his books. You must read this book, I personally gaurantee you will buy more than one copy it is such a great book!!

The one book every parent needs to read

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 eater Dr. 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 goin

very informative

I have found this book to be very informative. We are a vegetarian family and I have always wondered if my daughter is getting what she needs from her diet. Not only did he confirm the fact that she/we can be healthy as vegetarians he gave wonderful tips and recipes as well. I feel very comfortable with his recommendations and feel the book was very well done. It's one of those books that I want to read again and I'm excited to try more of the recipes!

Finally!!

..That is all I can say.. I was so excited to receive your book today! You are an amazing man and I thank you so much for somehow finding the time to write this! "Disease-Proof Your Child" shares with us the wisdom and knowledge we need to make the right decisions in our children's lives and future health. I LOVE IT! There is SO much fascinating information in this book. The RIGHT information finally! From vitamins... to supplements... to foods... to understanding causes of illness and disease.... I couldn't stop reading and learning.. It is all written in your easy to read and understand manner. You truly want to give us the tools and knowledge we need to make informed decisions about our own as well as our families health. I only wish this book were available years ago!! We really are what we eat and unfortunately lots of us are paying the price for what we ate when we were young. We (and our parents) did not have the right information. Now, thanks to Dr. Fuhrman, we do and children who are lucky enough to have a parent who learns this way of eating and living will not have to suffer from many of the health issues so many of us are trying to undo! If you are pregnant or planning to be or are a parent who wants to get off the cycle of ear infection...Dr visit...prescription..ear infection..Dr visit etc.... or have a child diagnosed with ADHD and you want alternatives to drugs or you want to prevent illness or you have a child who is a picky eater and need help getting them to like good healthy food this book shows you the way. Dr Fuhrman also shares advice on pregnancy, nursing, hormones, pesticides, antibiotic use, foods to avoid (at least) until first birthday, his ten super foods to use in menu planning, making over your kitchen...school lunch tips...and more! Even if you don't have children you can benefit from all the well researched nutritional knowledge this book contains. Thank you Dr. Fuhrman for all the hard work and time you put into this latest accomplishment. I am so grateful to you!