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Acknowledgements | p. xi |
Foreword | p. xiii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Healthy Kids, Sick Kids | p. 2 |
Note from the Author | p. 12 |
Sick Kids | p. 13 |
The Alarming Statistics | p. 13 |
The Economic Impact of Chronic Disease in Children | p. 25 |
Is the Epidemic of Chronic Childhood Illness Real? | p. 27 |
What Is Making Our Children Sick? | p. 32 |
The Etiology of Chronic Illness in American Children | p. 41 |
The Etiology of Chronic Childhood Illness | p. 47 |
Root Causes: The Perfect Storm | p. 49 |
The Pathway to Disease: From Physiological Dysfunction to Symptom Presentation | p. 65 |
Why Our Children? Why Now? | p. 113 |
America's Problem | p. 113 |
The Environmental Factors Responsible for Chronic Illness in America's Children | p. 118 |
Factor 1 - Medication Overusage | p. 125 |
Pharmaceutical Nation | p. 125 |
Antibiotics | p. 126 |
NSAIDs (Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs) | p. 131 |
Other Pharmaceutical Agents | p. 134 |
The Pharmaceutical Industry Rises | p. 136 |
Factor 2 - Environmental Toxins/Pollution | p. 141 |
Canaries in a Silent Spring-The Impact of Environmental Toxins | p. 141 |
A Different Kind of Pollution: Electropollution | p. 150 |
Factor 3 - Diet and Nutrition | p. 155 |
You Are What You Eat: Diet Matters | p. 155 |
How Americans Eat Today | p. 160 |
How Diet Contributes to Gut Dysbiosis and Immune Dysregulation | p. 165 |
Toxins in Our Food | p. 166 |
Soybeans and Other Genetically Modified Organisms | p. 169 |
Factor 4 - Habits and Lifestyles | p. 173 |
American Habits and Lifestyles | p. 173 |
Birth and Infant Feeding | p. 177 |
The Role of Stress | p. 183 |
Factor 5 - Immunizations and the Immunocompromised | p. 189 |
A Brief Overview of the Great Vaccine Debate | p. 191 |
More than Just Mercury: Evidence Indicating that Vaccinations May Play a Role in Chronic Childhood Illnesses | p. 208 |
Does the American Childhood Immunization Program Cause Chronic Illness? | p. 215 |
The Connection Between Vaccination, Gut Dysbiosis, and Immune Dysregulation | p. 219 |
Détente: Moving Away from Conspiracies and Toward Solutions | p. 231 |
Healing the Children | p. 239 |
The Recovered | p. 240 |
What We Can Do to Reverse This Trend | p. 259 |
A New Focus for Children's Health | p. 259 |
How to Protect Our Children | p. 261 |
Prepregnancy and Pregnancy Planning | p. 262 |
How to Help Children with Chronic Illnesses Now | p. 288 |
Conclusion | p. 295 |
Notes | p. 309 |
Index | p. 345 |
About the Author | p. 359 |
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