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"Healthy Halloween alternatives" seems like an oxymoron given that Halloween is the greatest yearly candy night for children of all ages. No child wants to be different than any other child. So, the question is “how do we make Halloween ... Read More

Parents have been implementing special diets for years to help improve the health of and reduce symptoms in their children with autism. Given the number of cookbooks and blogs dedicated to this subject, it appears the gluten-free/casein-free (GFCF) diet was ... Read More

What Is the Ketogenic Diet? The ketogenic (keto) diet was originally developed in 1923 by a doctor at the Mayo Clinic to help control seizures in children with epilepsy. These days, it is used for controlling or reversing symptoms of ... Read More

In this post, Carla Atherton, Director of the Healthy Family Formula, relates how she discovered that functional medicine has better answers for why her daughter developed type 1 diabetes. What Are We Missing in Conventional Care for Type 1 Diabetes? ... Read More

In this blog post, nutritionist Kelly Dorfman tells us why breakfast is important and how to choose what's for breakfast. Manage Glucose Levels Breakfast is the most important meal of the day! We’ve all heard that maxim. What is a ... Read More

What Is Low Blood Sugar? The body typically uses glucose - a simple carbohydrate - for its immediate energy needs; the amount circulating in the body is known as blood sugar. Blood sugar levels below 70 milligrams per deciliter are ... Read More

What Does Healing the Gut Entail? Keeping the gut clean and not continually having your child eat foods with toxins and chemical preservatives will help facilitate healing the gastrointestinal tract more efficiently. Sometimes changes are subtle and on a deeper ... Read More

How Does Food Affect Mood? No one likes to hear the old adage "you are what you eat", but food affects mood, especially for children. Children in general can be very sensitive to foods, resulting in mood changes very quickly ... Read More

I have two daughters ages 13 and 10. My second daughter, Terrie*, has many labels including PDD-NOS (which is now an autism spectrum disorder), hypotonia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, and Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD). She has come a long way in ... Read More

My four year old son, Eric was terribly constipated. He would go for several days without a bowel movement, and when he did finally go, he would sit on the toilet for what seemed like hours, straining. He seemed to ... Read More

Johnny and Nate's autism-recovery is excerpted from A Compromised Generation:  The Epidemic of Chronic Illness in America's Children. Johnny was born in 1997, a year when the word autism was just beginning to make its way into the mainstream media ... Read More