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
Sick Planet, Sick People
Our Planet Is Sick, and So Are We Sick planet sick people: Our relationship to the environment has a direct and immediate impact on our health, yet modern healthcare seems to all but ignore this inconvenient truth. Our children, our ... Read More
The Cost of Modern Living
Why does the cost of modern living make people in the Western industrial world so sick, fat and tired? How can we have a state-of-the-art healthcare system but also have one of the sickest populations on the planet? The truth ... Read More
The Startling Statistics
What Are the Startling Statistics? The startling statistics are that millions of American children live with diagnosed chronic illnesses. According to a research paper published in Academic Pediatrics in 2011, at least 54% of American children have a diagnosed chronic condition. Statistics for Common ... Read More
Behind the Statistics
What's Behind the Statistics of Higher Rates of Children's Chronic Health Conditions? Understanding what’s behind the statistics of autism, ADHD, allergies, asthma and other chronic childhood conditions will help you understand that epidemics aren’t genetic. There is a vast body ... Read More
Underlying Medical Problems
A Root-Cause Approach Is Needed We need to start thinking differently about health and wellness. What if we looked at diagnoses not as an endpoint but as a beginning? What if we view the symptoms common to a particular diagnosis ... Read More
A Unique Approach to Healing
Documenting Hope: Grassroots Initiative Tackles New Childhood Epidemics One of the greatest paradoxes of our times is that the most affluent, resourced and medically advanced societies in the world also have the highest rates of chronic childhood illness. Obesity and ... Read More
The Total Load Theory: Why So Many Children Have Developmental Problems
In this blog post, Kelly Dorfman MS LND details how the total load theory can explain why so many children today have neurodevelopmental disorders, as well as other chronic health conditions. An increasing number of children are being diagnosed with ... Read More
1 in 68 Children with Autism: This Should Be All Over the News Media!
The statistics are frightening enough on their own. 1 in 68 children has autism (and this number is growing!). In some communities (e.g., Somali immigrants in Minnesota), the statistics are even higher. 1 in 8 children has asthma. 1 in ... Read More
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