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he statistics are startling—as many as a quarter to one half of American children now have a


diagnosed chronic condition, according to studies that include one in Academic Pediatrics that includes obesity. Over the last few decades, the number of children with asthma has tripled to aff ect one in eight; those with attention defi cit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have doubled to one in 10; and autism diagnoses have increased at least 10-fold, to aff ect one in 50 (one in 31 boys). “It’s literally an epidemic of chronic


childhood disease,” says Beth Lambert, of Charlotte, North Carolina, author of A Compromised Generation: T e Epidemic of Chronic Illness in America’s Children and executive director of the nonprofi t EpidemicAnswers.org. “Our children, with their little bodies and immature immune systems, can’t tolerate the toxic environments we’re all exposed to. T ey’re the canaries in the coal mine that show us that the way we are living today is not sustainable.”


Call to Action As scientists pinpoint the causes of conditions, parents, researchers and healthcare practitioners are discovering, Lambert says, that many of the youngsters’ chronic illnesses share a “perfect storm” of factors, including pharmaceutical overuse, toxic or nutritionally poor diets, exposure to toxins and other environmental stressors. “Many factors contribute to these


chronic disorders; one size or one treatment doesn’t fi t all,” says Dr. Kenneth Bock, of Red Hook, New York, an integrative medicine practitioner who has helped more than 3,000 chronically ill children and authored Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies. “But if children with one or more of the disorders are treated with a fully integrative medicine approach, the vast majority show some improvement, many signifi cantly, and increasing numbers may recover to a point where they even lose their diagnosis.” Eff ective integrative applications oſt en change the child’s diet to nutrient-


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