{"product_id":"whats-making-our-children-sick-how-industrial-food-is-causing-an-epidemic-of-chronic-illness-and-what-parents-and-doctors-can-do-about-it-9781603587570","title":"What's Making Our Children Sick?: How Industrial Food Is Causing an Epidemic of Chronic Illness  and What Parents (and Doctors) Can Do About It","description":"\u003cp\u003eExploring the links between GM foods  glyphosate  and gut health  With chronic disorders among American children reaching epidemic levels  hundreds of thousands of parents are desperately seeking solutions to their childrens declining health  often with little medical guidance from the experts. Whats Making Our Children Sick? convincingly explains how agrochemical industrial production and genetic modification of foods is a culprit in this epidemic. Is it the only culprit? No. Most chronic health disorders have multiple causes and require careful disentanglement and complex treatments. But what if toxicants in our foods are a major culprit  one that  if corrected  could lead to tangible results and increased health? Using patient accounts of their clinical experiences and new medical insights about pathogenesis of chronic pediatric disorderstaking us into gut dysfunction and the microbiome  as well as the politics of food sciencethis book connects the dots to explain our kids ailing health.  Whats Making Our Children Sick? explores the frightening links between our efforts to create higher-yield  cost-efficient foods and an explosion of childhood morbidity  but it also offers hope and a path to effecting change. The predicament we now face is simple. Agroindustrial innovation in a previous era hoped to prevent the ecosystem disaster of DDT predicted in Rachel Carsons seminal book in 1962  Silent Spring. However  this industrial agriculture movement has created a worse disaster: a toxic environment and  consequently  a toxic food supply. Pesticide use is at an all-time high  despite the fact that biotechnologies aimed to reduce the need for them in the first place. Today these chemicals find their way into our livestock and food crop industries and ultimately onto our plates. Many of these pesticides are the modern day equivalent of DDT. However  scant research exists on the chemical soup of poisons that our children consume on a daily basis. As our food supply environment reels under the pressures of industrialization via agrochemicals  our kids have become the walking evidence of this failed experiment. Whats Making Our Children Sick? exposes our current predicament and offers insight on the medical responses that are available  both to heal our kids and to reverse the compromised health of our food supply.  Perro and Adams book is an alarming  eye-opening read that documents more clearly than ever the devastating consequences that pervasive pesticide use in food production is having on our health  and the urgent need to protect our children from a system that prefers we treat illness and disease with pills rather than prevention.Carey Gillam  journalist  author of Whitewash\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45815849582645,"sku":"ByrdShop_1603587578","price":27.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781603587570.jpg?v=1785174914","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/whats-making-our-children-sick-how-industrial-food-is-causing-an-epidemic-of-chronic-illness-and-what-parents-and-doctors-can-do-about-it-9781603587570","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}