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...

An all too common picture in my practice is meeting a young child who is growing weakly or even presenting with failure to thrive (unable to grow above 5th percentiles),...

You can make creamy delicious authentic hot cocoa that is free of major allergens like casein, whey, soy, or gluten. You can even leave out the sugar if you like,...

ABC News featured a story on a boy named Tyler with FPIES - that is, food protein induced enterocolitis syndrome. The boy had been sickly and weak for years; doctors...

World Autism Awareness Day comes every April. Lots of blue lighting going on. I'm not sure this is the best use of the enormous monetary resources that Autism Speaks has...

In my pediatric nutrition practice, moms often ask: Is it worth it to spend the extra money on organic foods and pricier supplements brands? My opinion is yes. I often...

Reasons not to do a special diet for your kids' autism / ADHD / anxiety / OCD / Tourette's / speech delay / diabetes / seizure disorder / ODD /...

News from Australia this week: What you eat in pregnancy matters for your baby’s mental health. You already knew that, right? Apparently, it surprised everybody that “mums who eat more unhealthy...