About the Epidemic
Learn about the epidemic of chronic health conditions that affects at least 54% of U.S. children. Over one in two America children has a diagnosed chronic health condition such as an autoimmune disorder, a neurodevelopmental disorder, diabetes or obesity or a mood or behavioral disorder.
About the Epidemic Articles
The History of Total Load
Total Load Theory “Total Load Theory” is a widely used engineering term that, for decades, has been applied to explain why a bridge might collapse. Who or what is to blame? The truck driver? The trucking company? The engineer who ... Read More
Does the CDC Memory Hole the Real Autism Rates (or Is There Something Worse Going on?)
Autism Rates Are Increasing My friend Maria Rickert Hong and I just discovered something interesting about the CDC’s data on autism rates and prevalence. You may have seen the email we sent out recently about the new autism rates reported ... Read More
Autism Rate Increased Again?
Did you hear the news?The autism rate is now believed to be 1 in 36 children.That’s 2.8% of children.That’s 4% of boys. And 1 in 20 boys (5%) in California. When we opened our doors in 2009, the autism rate ... Read More
Study: Many Small Stressors Add up to Cause Big Health Problems
The CHIRP Study In 2018, Documenting Hope opened enrollment for the CHIRP Study which features the most comprehensive pediatric survey of children’s health, growth and development in the context of the modern world – a place with innumerable toxic and ... Read More
This Is Urgent
A letter from our Executive Director -- December 2017 Dear Friends, Seven years ago when I published A Compromised Generation, and founded Documenting Hope, I knew in my heart that if we just let enough people know about the skyrocketing ... Read More
Epidemics Are Not Genetic
Epidemics are not genetic, by definition. Genetic disorders occur at a stable rate because only a certain amount of people carry the genes for certain genetic defects. Because the population is growing at a low and stable rate, therefore, an ... Read More
Many Diagnoses, One Epidemic
The Epidemic of Children's Chronic Health Conditions Thirty years ago, very few people had heard of diagnoses such as ADHD or autism. Today, these are household words. These illnesses, and others like them, are just the earliest signs of an ... Read More
Shifting the Health Paradigm
The Current Health Paradigm: Name It, Blame It and Tame It >In the current health paradigm, your child is always sick. You’ve seen many doctors, and none of them can tell you WHY. They just hand you a new prescription ... Read More
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