Let me tell you the five most helpful to-do's I have seen parents use for their children's health, as we start a new year. These come from my twenty years'...

There has been buzz for years now about camel milk, and its purported benefits for autism, Crohn's disease, allergies, feeding problems and more. I've been slow to embrace this possibility,...

Got kids? You might have noticed, if they're school age, that their teachers start to get itchy, usually around fourth grade. For many traditional elementary schools, that's when the game...

Gluten-free is a big part of my pediatric nutrition practice. It has also been my life since 1998, when we pulled gluten out of my son’s diet. He was 22...

Healing leaky gut is one of the most requested tasks in my pediatric nutrition practice. Many parents are surprised to hear me say that it is possible to repair leaky...

I'm now serving my second generation of clients, working with moms who where were not even born when I finalized my credentials as a dietitian/nutritionist. Recently I did a double take noticing...

There is plenty of banter out there about whether using nutrition tools for kids with autism - including special diets - is an essential task, or a waste of time....

  Is your child underweight? Your doctor would have told you, right? Maybe not. In fact, I am often the first person to capture this finding in a toddler, child...

Kids needing feeding clinic intervention are the pickiest of the picky. Their super picky appetites have frustrated their parents to no end. They tend to have more dental problems, get sick...

FPIES - food protein induced enterocolities syndrome - is becoming a frequent presence in my pediatric nutrition practice. There are no prevalence studies for it yet, and it has only recently...

Orange and purple. Pumpkins, Frankenstein, cute goblins. It's Halloween.  When I was a kid, October was my favorite month. Not only did it bring my birthday (still does), it felt like the most...