If you were hoping that summertime - a time with no school, fresh air, sunshine, and exercise - would help your child feel better and improve their behavior.... but it hasn’t, then salicylates might be your culprit. Salicylates in Food Salicylates are...
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Nutrition Program for Parents: Boost Your Child’s Nutrition and Improve Their Health, Learning, and Behavior! Copy
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Nutrition Program for Parents: Boost Your Child’s Nutrition and Improve Their Health, Learning, and Behavior!
Spring Enrollment is OPEN • Save 33% • Limited space availableJoin thislife-changing programand help your child today!Join thislife-changing programand help your child today!The leading nutrition program for childrenbased on clinical experience and research [Video...
Avoiding Holiday Havoc: Healthy solutions to avoid meltdowns and keep the holidays happy
The holidays are a wonderful time for being together with family and celebrating. But there are also new holiday traditions that can cause children to have behavioral and emotional reactions. Holiday treats and decorations can cause biochemical overload and...
Gluten-Free Casein-Free Diet is Not Working
10 Strategies for the GFCF Diet Plan for Autism and ADHDStarting on a gluten-free and casein-free (GFCF) diet for your child with ADHD, autism, anxiety, or other neurological/special needs can result in profound improvements. Let’s start by defining what these things...
Helping Children with Anxiety Through Personalized Nutrition and Therapeutic Diets
An astounding 31% of children have anxiety (and 46% of adults!) To say this is a problem would be an understatement in my opinion. Symptoms of anxiety can be debilitating and can negatively impact the child’s home life, school performance, friendships, and ability to...
The Feingold Diet and Failsafe Diets
The Feingold Diet and Failsafe Diets The Feingold Diet for ADHD and Autism The Feingold Diet is an elimination diet that removes artificial food additives, as well as foods high in salicylates. This is one of the diets I have found to be most helpful for people with...
Could Food Be Causing Your Child’s Aggression?
Aggression is a difficult and sometimes devastating symptom that occurs in children for varied reasons—some known and some unknown. The correlation between food and behavior intrigued me 20 years ago, and sparked my career as a nutrition researcher and clinician. And...
Nut-Free
(Go straight to the recipes) Nuts are a common allergen. Nuts are also high in oxalates and salicylates/phenols, so many people avoid nuts. I have many clients with nut allergies and intolerances, so I have created recipes to help. Be sure to read all of the...
Egg-Free, Nut-Free, and Elimination Diets
(Go straight to the recipes) Egg-Free Eggs are a common allergen, in children and adults alike. They can make a special diet that much more challenging to do, so we at Nourishing Hope are here to help. Eggs are typically used for three main functions: 1) leavening, 2)...
Low Salicylate, Low Amine, Low Glutamate Diets
(Go straight to the recipes) Salicylate Salicylates are natural substances created by plants, a type of phenol, used as a defense mechanism against organisms eating the plant. These natural food compounds can also negatively affect humans. Phenols are not all bad, but...
BioIndividual Nutrition and Therapeutic Diets
Personalizing Your Diet and Nutrition Approach Once you’ve made changes in your child’s diet (or even your own) and seen some improvements, now it’s time to customize your approach, optimizing the food your child eats to suit their unique needs. There are many special...