"Disease-Proof Your Child: Feeding Kids Right" By Joel Fuhrman, M.D.

From back cover..."Cutting edge nutritional science for the family table: In his private practice, Joel Fuhrman, M.D. helps families transform their eating habits and recover their health. His nutrient-rich eating plan can have a significant impact on your child's resistance to dangerous infections, and a dramatic effect on reducing the occurrence of illnesses like asthma, ear infections, and allergies.  Dr. Fuhrman explains how you can make sure your children are eating right to maintain a healthy mind and body, and how eating certain foods and avoiding others can positively impact your child's IQ and success in school.

He also presents the fascinating science that demonstrates that the current epidemic of adult cancers and other diseases is closely linked to what we eat in the first quarter of life. Eating well in our early years may enable us to win the war on caner. Bolstered by this scientific evidence, Dr. Fuhrman helps you do everything you can to protect your child against developing diabetes, cardiovascular disease, autoimmune diseases, and cancer through a solid nutritional groundwork. 

Featuring easy-to-prepare, kid-friendly recipes that will satisfy even the pickiest eaters, your whole family will learn to establish lifelong healthful eating habits. harness the power of a nutrient-rich diet to ensure a lifetime free of illness and full of health!"

This is an amazing and powerful book. It quite clearly presents an abundance of scientific research that shows how what our children eat has such a dramatic effect on the rest of their lives.  He is quite persuasive in explaining how eating exceptionally healthy is the foundation for good health!  As a parent, I feel the need to be very proactive in the health of my children. This book has the potential to help you change any bad patterns in your children's diet and replace them with wonderful, healthy habits! Dr, Fuhrman has shared with us amazing knowledge to help us make correct decisions about the health of our children and ourselves.  You will never view food the same way after reading this book.  It empowered me to continue my efforts for a healthy lifestyle and to never give up, even with the pickiest eaters.  

I especially enjoyed his advice on instilling good eating habits in our children...like to never use food as rewards, teaching by example, and letting children eat when they are hungry instead of forcing them to eat at a certain time. As parents, we need to create the right environment in our home. We need to be responsible for the selection of food and for preparing the food our children eat. Our children need to be responsible for deciding how much and when to eat!  I love the ideas for many healthy snacks he gives, but still need to try his recipes for meals.  Some do seem rather daunting. But overall an amazing book on health and food.