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Standard American Diet

The Standard American Diet, deficient of many key nutrients and full of unhealthful non-food additives, is a key contributor to children’s chronic illnesses.

Standard American Diet Articles

The FLIGHT™ Team Gets Cooking for Jeremiah’s Family

The FLIGHT™ Team Gets Cooking for Jeremiah’s Family

The FLIGHT™ Study team brought a professional chef in to help Jeremiah’s family with cooking non-allergenic, healthy foods. Jeremiah has an autoimmune condition known as alopecia universalis that causes complete hair loss all over the body. As part of Jeremiah’s ... Read More
Study: Many Small Stressors Add up to Cause Big Health Problems

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
The Cost of Modern Living

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
Nutritional Deficiencies

Nutritional Deficiencies

Most children with chronic illness diagnoses or symptoms are known to have nutritional deficiencies. This does not mean that they are not eating or that they are starving, rather, it means that their bodies are either: a) Not getting the ... Read More

Standard American Diet Webinars

Rising Autism Rates: Why and What You Can Do
Nutritional Supplementation for Neurodevelopmental and Mood Disorders
What's Making Our Children Sick? with Michelle Perro MD

Standard American Diet Stories

Marilee and Douglas: Overcoming Kidney Failure and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

Marilee and Douglas: Overcoming Kidney Failure and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

This story is used with permission from Marilee Nelson, the founder of Branch Basics. Perspective and Awareness: What I Wish I Had Known Years Ago Perspective on any topic is based on an understanding of the available information that pertains ... Read More
Diana: Mold Toxicity

Diana: Mold Toxicity

It Took Years to Realize It Was Mold Toxicity Over the last three years, the brain fog gradually worsened, as did the fatigue. With it came weight gain, dramatic increases in food and chemical sensitivities and dreadful insomnia, with months ... Read More
Leo: Autism

Leo: Autism

excerpted from A Compromised Generation:  The Epidemic of Chronic Illness in America’s Children Upon meeting Leo for the first time, it is difficult to grasp that this friendly, bright-eyed 10½ year old boy once had autism. There is nothing about ... Read More

Standard American Diet Books

Fat, Stressed, and Sick: MSG, Processed Food, and America's Health Crisis
The Unhealthy Truth