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Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders |  | Authors: Kenneth Bock, Cameron Stauth
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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ISBN: 0345494504
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Publication Date: April 10, 2007
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Autism is an epidemic: It has spiked 1,500 percent in the last twenty years. ADHD, asthma and allergies have also skyrocketed over the same time period. One of these conditions now strikes one in every three children in America. But there is hope. Leading medical innovator Kenneth Bock, M.D., has helped change the lives of more than a thousand children, and in this important book, with a comprehensive program that targets all four of the 4-A disorders, he offers help to children everywhere. This is the book that finally puts hope within reach.
Doctors have generally overlooked the connections among the 4-A disorders, despite their concurrent rise and the presence of many medical clues. For years the medical establishment has considered autism medically untreatable and utterly incurable, and has limited ADHD treatment mainly to symptom suppression. Dr. Bock and his colleagues, however, have discovered a solution – one that goes to the root of the problem. They have found that deadly modern toxins, nutritional deficiencies, metabolic imbalances, genetic vulnerabilities and assaults on the immune and gastrointestinal systems trigger most of the symptoms of the 4-A disorders, resulting in frequent misdiagnosis and untold misery.
Dr. Bock’s remarkable Healing Program, drawing on medical research and based on years of clinical success, offers a safe, sensible solution that is individualized to each child to help remedy these root causes. The biomedical approach to autism, ADHD, and the other 4-A epidemics, as innovated by Dr. Bock and some of America’s finest integrative physicians, is one of the most promising and exciting medical movements of our time.
In this eminently readable account, written by Dr. Bock in collaboration with critically acclaimed author Cameron Stauth, you will meet children and parents whose dramatic stories will inspire you to change the life of your own child. This program may be the help that you have been praying for.
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Best Resource for Biomedicl Treatments! September 20, 2009
M. Walsh (Chicago, IL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We have purchased this book several times over and keep handing it out to friends with children suffering from ADHA,Autism etc. This book is easy to read and gives great steps on how to start your children on the road to recovery. Our son was diagnosed with Autism and has been on a biomed plan for over a year and we have seen SIGNIFCANT progress in his recovery process. Thank you to Dr. Bock for making this daunting journey not so daunting and for giving us parents back our hope for our children. EXCELLENT resource for anyone looking for biomedical help for children with ASD,ADHD, Allerices and Asthma.
A "must read" for any parent of an autistic child!! August 31, 2009
S. Ardisana (Cooksville, MD)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Informative. Very easy to read. Puts many of the pieces of the autism puzzle together. I have made an appointment with a DAN doctor to talk about starting my son on the Healing Program.
 Loaded with disinformation June 22, 2009
J. Defenderfer (Apex, NC USA)
30 out of 33 found this review helpful
With all the five-star reviews on this book, perhaps I set my expectations too high. On the plus side, Dr. Bock's after-the-fact suggestions are undoubtedly helpful, although he handicaps any solution by common myths.
Firstly, he repeatedly attacks saturated fats (e.g., Page 178, "Similarly, it's important to avoid foods that are pro-inflammatory, such as the trans-fatty acids found in margarine and other saturated fats.") Per Julie Matthews, a renowned expert on autism nutrition, "Clinical research shows that both saturated fat and cholesterol are essential for growth in babies, especially for healthy brain development" and "[There have been] decades of incorrect nutrition information on fats fed to the public by almost all mainstream nutrition sources".
Clearly, the problem is that Dr. Bock is one of sources of disinformation. This disinformation leads inevitably to mothers on bagel and fruit fat-free diets; then, made unable to breastfeed, with the blessings of their pediatricians, they give harmful omega-6 loaded soy based formulas to their infants; and finally they ween their children to cereal and fruit juice centric diets. (Dr. Bock missed the fact that the increasing levels of gluten in today's popular wheat varieties contribute to the timing of these epidemics. And, he missed the fact that the excess omega-6 fats in soy-based formula are often harmful to the liver and thus impair digestion.)
Anyhow, the saturated fat scare that Dr. Bock repeats may be the most significant root cause of the autism epidemic. Firstly, the necessary fats are mostly absent, and secondly the grains wreck the gut, making the children particularly vulnerable to toxins that healthy guts easily chelate. (And the high blood glucose and insulin levels caused by the carbohydrate intensive diet are damaging as well).
Another missed factor is massive vitamin D deficiency from these poor sources of vitamin D (i.e., grains, fruit, and juices) coupled with the doctor supported sun scare (see the Vitamin D Council's papers on autism to understand the connection). And, the vitamin D deficiency contributes to the chelation problem, as well. While Dr. Bock gives a little attention to vitamin D, his recommended dosage is one tenth of being adequate to remedy the deficiency, per the best experts on Vitamin D.
Instead of recognizing the saturated fat scare and the sun scare as significant causes of the autism (and other immune system disorders), Dr. Bock propagates myths about mercury levels (Page 18, "Our oceans are so full of poison, especially mercury, that it is now unsafe to eat more than one can of tuna per week.") From other sources, the reality is "there's considerable evidence that the amount of mercury in fish has remained the same (or even decreased) during the past 100 years." [...]. The mercury myth not only helps create an omega-3 fat deficit, but it has helped create the self-chelation problem by contributing to a widespread iodine deficiency; iodine/iodide is a critical supplement (particularly nearly absent in a low seafood diet) that goes entirely unmentioned in this book.
When the root causes of autism are so badly misunderstood and instead blamed on (exaggerated) factors we largely cannot control (e.g., ocean pollution), it dooms millions of children to suffer from these and other immune system disorders. The good this book does (by providing too rare sensible advice for victims of health disinformation) is more than offset by the disinformation it actually propagates.
Read this book, perhaps, for mostly credible information on supplements and drugs, but get your nutrition advice from the few trained nutritionists that actually understand nutrition, such as Julie Matthews, author of Nourishing Hope for Autism: Nutrition Intervention for Healing Our Children, (or perhaps doctors such as Michael R. Eades or John Briffa or Barry Groves). (Often, you may use their opinion on saturated fat as a litmus test of being enlightened.) Because of his ignorance of basics, I suggest mostly ignoring the root causes that Dr. Bock claims.
Healing the New Childhood epidemics By Dr K bock and Cameron Stauth March 11, 2009
DM JET (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a truely outstanding book by a world leading authority in his field.Any parent with an autistic child would find this book valuable especially in relation to the effect of different diets on the development of autistic children.He also covers ADHD,Asthma and Allergies
This book was a lifesaver February 22, 2009
AZ mom
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had heard about biomedical approaches to treating autism, but I had no idea of the links with asthma, ADHD, and allergies. Suddenly, my autistic, asthmatic, allergic kid made sense. I started on the program recommended in this book and my kid changed totally. I concocted a blend of supplements and diet interventions and I saw a change within weeks. I later started with a DAN doctor to tweak my program, but this was the best 20 bucks I ever spent!
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