What's Eating Your Child? by Kelly Dorfman is an eye opener, a brilliant must have book of sound advice packed with useful information for parents. She seems to be capable of knowing exactly what we're going to think of before we even carry the thought to fruition. I realized this between the moment I read the title and after finishing the forward by Richard E. Layton, MD; a Pediatric Allergy Specialist that opens the book by telling you how well educated, informed and important Kelly Dorfman's book truly is.
"Over the past fifteen years that I have been working with Kelly, I have been amazed at how intuitive and bright she is. She is a true Sherlock Holmes. Her ability to listen to a history and use her common sense, brain, and intuition to determine the source of a problem is truly remarkable. She has taught me an enormous amount about nutrition and how important the right diet and supplements are to attain optimal health. When it comes to the patients in my practice, I have more confidence in Kelly's opinion than that of anyone else in medicine. She is brilliant."
The words from Doctor Layton made me realize that this wasn't another hokey book that was going to tell me everything we were doing wrong with our families diet. It was an informed book backed by a pediatric allergist with other comments by a pediatric neurologist and a neurodevelopement pediatrician. By putting the Forward by a seasoned pediatrician Kelly Dorfman seemed to know that parents need to feel that what they are reading is medically sound and not just a personal opinion. She continues throughout the entire book to shock you with this way of knowing what you are going to think. She knows what you have tried with your children, what you may have said to them or all the reasons or excuses you make up for their diets. Most important, however, she never points a finger, she never says you are wrong and instead says I understand while helping you to feel more comfortable taking back control of your child's plate.
So what is it that Kelly Dorfman is trying to show us? She is trying to open our eyes to the connections between food and childhood ailments such as: anxiety, recurrent ear infections, stomachaches, picky eating, rashes, ADHD... and more. She doesn't just say, "This is the problem, now give your child this and everything is okay." She teaches you how to be a nutrition detective on your own, how to make lists in order to keep track of the facts so you can present them reasonably to doctors. How to talk to your doctor about possible deficiencies and/or irritates. She provides cases and studies to present to your doctor about the possibility of a certain food being an issue so you are presenting them with intelligent facts. She is so spot on that she urges you to mark certain areas in the book that you may feel are necessary and to leave it with your doctor. I felt this proved something on its own while also having me realize my mistake of bombarding my doctor with tons of information they are not listening to. Now that I know how they "listen" to the information being thrown at them by a worried Mom like me, I know how to speak to them to provide the necessary facts and possibilities.
Outside of the stories of other families cases regarding food irritants/deficiencies, the most important thing I believe she provides for parents is the most reasonable, easy and emotionally necessary steps to solve picky eating. She does this in a program called E.A.T. I've personally never seen anything like it and after I read the chapter I decided this book was the Holy Grail. What's Eating Your Child? is unlike any other book I've read in the category of food and children and it's a book that you will realize you can't go without. Kelly Dorfman is currently touring with her book and if you live in an area she may be attending, I would certainly go. When food is one of the largest problems we face today with our health we need to support educated Moms like Kelly Dorfman, for our children and our own sake.
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