The Canary Kids Project: Putting an End to the New Childhood Epidemics


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hirty years ago, very few people had heard of diagnoses like ADHD or autism. Today, these are household words. These illnesses, and others like them, are just the earliest signs of an epidemic of historic proportions that is affecting our children most acutely. American children are being diagnosed with chronic ill- nesses (such as autism, asthma, allergies, diabetes, ADHD, autoim- mune diseases and many others) at a breathtaking rate, and even more undiagnosed children suffer silently. The social, economic and human costs of this epidemic are staggering. Our children, the ‘canaries in the coal mine’ of national health, are imploring us to take action now. This crisis stems from very specifi c and insidious environmental


factors (beyond just “pollution”) that have been introduced slowly into our lives over the course of the last half-century. Our children are experiencing a “perfect storm” of environmental factors that are destroying their immune systems, affecting their growth and devel- opment, and preventing them from living a full life.


Startling Statistics


• Rates of autism have risen over the last few decades from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 50 children. Autism costs the U.S. $126 billion per year.


• Asthma affects 1 in 8 children, and as many as 1 in 6 African American children. Asthma costs the U.S. $56 billion per year. • One in 3 American children is either overweight or obese; Obesity-related medical costs account for $190 billion or 21% of medical spending in the United States; childhood obesity carries a price tag of $14 billion a year in direct medical costs. • One in 20 children has a life-threatening food allergy. Food allergies result in over 30,000 visits to the emergency room annually and the total cost of managing allergies in the US is estimated at $14.5 billion per year. • One in 30 children are diagnosed with pediatric depression. The U.S. spends $83 billion a year on depression. • It is estimated that approximately 10% of American children have ADD/ADHD and 17% are labeled as “learning disabled.”


ADHD is estimated to cost the US upwards of $100 billion per


year. These issues are a human, societal and economic imperative, and it is time to ‘think outside the box’ not only about why our children are sick, but what we can do to help them get better.


The recovery program includes:


• Team of integrative experts, including a family health coach and clinical care coordinator


• Personalized nutritional support • Comprehensive therapeutic interventions that address genetic, environmental, and epigenetic causes, not symptoms • Green, highest quality, non-toxic, hypo-allergenic products • Personalized, humane, timely and high quality care and monitoring


2. New Paradigm for Healing The Canary Kids Project seeks to model a new way of address-


ing health by integrating the latest science with time-honored heal- ing traditions. The new model includes:


• Collaboration where medical mentors bridge the “bench-to- bedside” gap, and translate emerging science to clinicians and physicians


• Trans-disciplinary developmental screening • Cutting edge laboratory testing (immune, digestive, endocrine,


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What is The Canary Kids Project? The Canary Kids Project is a not-for-profi t grassroots, innova-


tive program that tests and documents a results-oriented model that looks upstream at the causes, rather than downstream at the symptoms, of chronic illness. There is a vast body of anecdotal evidence indicating that individuals with chronic conditions, even autism, can fully recover. The Canary Kids Project seeks to test and explore, through proper and rigorous scientifi c methodology, the underpinnings of these anecdotal successes. The program contains three main pillars:


1. Healing for 14 ‘Canary Kids’ The Canary Kids Project aims to enroll 14 children with one of


the following diagnoses into an 18-month long healing and recov- ery program: autism, ADHD/ADD, mood disorders, atopic disease, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, obesity/type II diabetes, and asthma. The goal is to reverse the disease process and optimize their health and wellness.


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