Kelly Dorfman, M.S., has written a brilliant book. Using leading-edge research in nutrition and the practical experience of her twenty-nine-year career in clinical nutrition, Dorfman adeptly demonstrates the role nutrition plays in healing children’s ailments.

Cure Your Child with Food consists of a series of case studies involving a wide array of health issues in numerous individual cases.

For example, Dorfman describes the situation with four-year-old Tom, who had already been to a neurologist, physical therapist, developmental pediatrician, and speech therapist before his mother consulted Dorfman.

Cure Your Child With Food: Dairy Intolerance

None of the medical professionals could find a reason for Tom’s insomnia, lack of appetite, extreme mood swings, and propensity to catch every cold and cough going around. Dorfman spotted the signs of dairy intolerance, and Tom’s mother immediately removed milk products from his diet. In less than a week, Tom regained his appetite, slept better, and felt much calmer. After six weeks, he was cured.

Gluten Intolerance

Eleven-year-old Gaby’s mother brought her to see Dorfman with concern about Gaby’s constant hunger and large appetite. Gaby claimed to be always hungry and had started to gain weight. Dorfman learned that gluten-rich foods were the largest part of Gaby’s diet, and cheese was her main protein source. By cutting out her high gluten intake, and by increasing her protein and vegetable portions, Gaby’s constant hunger (a common symptom of gluten intolerance) was satiated and she felt satisfied after meals.

Dorfman believes the high rate of childhood obesity and other ills is often related to their diet, making it helpful for parents to learn more.

Cure Your Child with Food offers practical, scientifically-supported advice with refreshing case studies that read like medical mysteries. The book gives parents tools to have useful conversations about nutrition with their children.

As a mother of three, Dorfman understands the challenges parents face, and she uncovers clues behind a child’s health problems—from ear infections and attention challenges to picky eating, insomnia, digestive problems, anxiety, constipation, and much more. Dorfman proves that finding an accurate, nutritional treatment immediately is simpler than it may seem.

Cure Your Child with Food, Kelley Dorfman, M.S., Workman Publishing; April 23, 2013