The Crazy Makers: How the Food Industry Is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children is an unprecedented and impeccably reported look at how American food manufacturers and their “products” may be endangering our minds. With obesity becoming one of the fastest-growing worldwide epidemics, and manufactured food fueling that trend, The Crazy Makers is timelier […]
Healing & Wholeness: Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Mental Health
Healing and Wholeness: Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Mental Health provides a comprehensive overview of complementary and alternative treatments for mental health, with information and research on their effectiveness for treating specific disorders. Twenty-two chapters document research and the current practice of using complementary and alternative therapies in treating a number of disorders, including depression, […]
Gluten Free Casein Free Diet and Autism
Many parents of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) report that behavior improves when their children eat a diet free of the proteins gluten and casein. Much has been said about the gluten free, casein free (GFCF) diet and its use to help individuals with autism. Many families with children newly identified with autism wonder […]
Watching Television Linked to Autism
A study by Cornell University reported autism cases within certain counties in California and Pennsylvania rose at rates that closely matched cable subscriptions, rising fastest in counties with the fastest-growing cable rates. At the same time, autism and rainfall patterns in California, Pennsylvania and Washington State also correlated with rising autism rates. The researchers concluded […]