Free Download: Behavior, Learning & Health (The Dietary Connection)

Just a quick post to let you know about a great book that is available for free download on the Feingold Program website. Behavior, Learning and Health offers a clear and concise overview of the dietary connection between food and behavior, learning and physical problems of so many children today.

Covered topics include: ADHD, asthma, aggression and disruptive behavior, bed wetting, Autism Spectrum Disorders and the Gluten/Casein connection.

If you are a mother of a difficult child and you have never considered the connection between diet and your child's behavior, this book would be a great place to start! It is not too much information so as to "overload" you. 

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Here is a startling excerpt from pg 15.-Aggression and Disruptive Behavior:

"In 1985 Dr. Stephen Schoenthaler published a series of studies on 12 juvenile correctional facilities, housing 8,076 young offenders. Just as he showed in the school studies (page 11), not all the children improved,but 20% of them made such a dramatic recovery that the total of“deviant behaviors” for all the children fell by 47%. At a Tidewater, VA detention facility, behavior problems fell 48% following dietary changes: Violence declined 33%, theft dropped 77%, etc. A controlled study of 1,382 youths at three Los Angeles County probation detention centers found a 44% reduction in bad behavior, and a northern California probation department facility making similar dietary changes found that violence fell 25% and “horseplay”declined 42%. In both these California institutions, suicide attempts fell 44%."

If you have not yet explored the idea that food could have a major effect on your child's ability to grow, behave and learn properly, I promise this will be eye opening for you!

I would love to hear from you if you read the book and find it helpful! 

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