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

Foundations of Health

Foundations of Health

What Are the Foundations of Health? When facing a complex chronic health or developmental condition, it's easy to fall into the mindset that only something highly sophisticated—like stem cell therapy or a cutting-edge biologic drug—holds the key to healing. This ... Read More
The FLIGHT Team Gets Cooking for Jeremiah’s Family

The FLIGHT Team Gets Cooking for Jeremiah’s Family

Cooking Non-Allergenic Foods 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 assessments, ... 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
Immune System 101

Immune System 101

The immune system is the human body’s first line of defense that protects against viruses, bacteria, foreign invaders and toxicants, both natural and synthetic. When a person’s immune system is strong and healthy, it regulates normal growth and development 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

Standard American Diet Expert Interviews

Nutritional Supplementation for Neurodevelopmental and Mood Disorders with James Greenblatt MD
What's Making Our Children Sick? with Michelle Perro MD

Standard American Diet Stories

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

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