Fed Up: Understanding How Food Affects Your Child and What You Can Do about It

By Sue Dengate

Book Overview

In this long-awaited, fully updated volume, health specialist Sue Dengate provides sound information about food intolerance and the adverse affect of synthetic additives and natural chemicals in food. Inspiring stories of families overcoming their problems with dietary-based illness are provided along with dozens of recipes for all kinds of occasions. This is an essential tool for parents wanting a calmer, happier--and healthier--family.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1741667259
• ISBN13: 9781741667257
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

A must have for today's parents

I think that any parent who strives to feed their children healthy food and encourage good learning and appropriate behaviour should read this book. My son has had trouble with excitability and falling asleep and following some of the suggestions in this book has helped tremendously. No more dark cirles around his eyes and he's able to listen better at school - even for a 5yr old! I see other children with these problems and their parents are buying seemingly healthy foods ladened with preservatives and flavour enhancers such as msg and it breaks my heart. Food regulation agencies do very little to protect us.

Food allergies NOT adhd

I have 3 sons and 2 have been diagnosed with ADHD, and put on Ritalin. I was told by the doctor that nothing worked except drugs. My bright boy went from being bright and inventive (loud, destructive, non-cooperative, etc) to a little robot that sat on the chair and did nothing, nothing at all. In distress I went back and the doctor said - I'll get used to it ... not likely. I took him off the ritalin, and we went looking for another answer, finally finding this book. After the first week, I went from having 3 sons with severe behaviour problem to having 3 normal little boys, who have food allergies. This book is my bible in the kitchen, and if you have a child with ADHD, then please, read this book. I wish I had found it 6 years ago, as it has given my boys back to me.

Great Book .... Great info

I have and 8 yo adhd odd son. I started removing dyes and additives from his diet at 5 years old because I NOTICED that it made a difference. This year I finally bought sue's book and you cannot believe the difference this has made in my sons life... Sues book explains it all... My son is sensitive to salacylates amines and additives. Everyday his behavior is rated by his teacher from 1-5. pre diet we were lucky to get a 3... now 3s are bad days. It can be hard but it is so worth it... Mom in colorado

If you only buy one book in your life - IT SHOULD BE THIS!!

This is is the first review I have ever felt compelled to write in response to the first review which claims that this book is "rubbish". Let me just say that my father found out about food intolerance from the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney a few years before Sue wrote the book. Furthermore I have a sister who is studying neuroscience, another who studies medicine - we all support Sue Dengate and feel we are eating healthier food than we have ever done before. Food intolerance is a relatively new area being studied and we are far from completely understanding how chemicals (food and other)affect the body. Sue Dengates book was the first piece of literature which gave me an insight into food intolerance and how it affected me. Years later I still am re-reading it. EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE A COPY!!!!Growing up, though outside of the home I was thought to be an angel and was achieving exceptional grades (without studying mind you, which I have always regretted) - at home I was often a completely obnoxious, uncontrollable terror. The foods I was eating affected my health and mood (I often had a cold, had constant swings between adoring everyone and being depressed or angry - especially if I was asked to clean up etc). Rarely did a day go past where I did not get into trouble. We all thought it was normal behaviour - part of growing up. Imagine everyones relief when I started eating "friendly foods". In fact everyone noticed improvements - and mum's migranes are gone.I can't begin to descibe the profound effect this book and finding out about food intolerance has had on my family's life. I am still learning how food effects me. This isn't a diet!! Everyone is affected by food differently and everyone has a different tolerance level to certain chemicals (refer to "Super Size Me").It is about finding out if and to what extent you are affected - allowing you to make informed decisions about what you put in your mouth - allowing you to lead the life you want to lead.Once big problems like health and behaviour have disappeared there are subtle effects food has on your mood, concentration,sleep, balance etc These take longer to fix - and often you only notice the difference when you start eating the wrong foods again. I am one of the lucky ones to have been affected enough for the diet to have a notieable difference in my behaviour so these subtle benefits can give me the extra edge over my competition at university. Sue, if you read this - I CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH!

How "Fed Up" Gave me my Angel

My daughter was diagnosed ADHD at the age of 5 and put on ritalin and last year (2003) I found Sue's book, found lots of on my daughter in it so decided to take the plunge and tried the diet. My daughter went from being unhappy, rejected by her peers and academically lacking to a child who was happy, healthy, socially and academically capable and is still improving. For my daughter salicylates (which are in varying degrees in all fruit and vegetables were a killer, they prevented her from learning as her body could not tolerate them. Her teacher asked me what I had done to my daughter as she went from being distractive and disruptive in class to sitting in class and being part of the "core" of the class. It only took one week for her body to get rid of the offending salicylates (which were like poison to her body) and my angel appeared and she has now been able to be taken off ritalin.Thank you Sue for your wonderful book, without which my daughter would have been on ritalin and still no better off.