Environmental Chemicals and Food Allergies Unsuspected Causes of Obesity

1. Environmental Chemicals and Food AllergiesUnsuspected Causes of Obesity • Adrienne Sprouse, M.D., M. Ed. • Manhattan Health Consultants • New York, NY • (212) 725-5744

2. Statistics • Childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and tripled in adolescents in the past 30 years • This rapid increase cannot be attributed to genetics • More than one-third of children and adolescents are overweight (increased body weight/height) or obese (increased fat)

3. Think About the Obese Children You Know • Is obesity their only diagnosis, or do they also have other medical problems ? • Ear infections • Sore throats • Runny noses • Facial redness • Asthma • Skin rashes • Behavioral/Psychiatric problems

4. DARK CIRCLES UNDER THE EYES

5. EYE WRINKLES

9. RED CHEEKS

10. RED EARS

11. AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR

12. Video of Boy Eating Tomato • Feminized breasts • Aggressive behavior • Multiple undiagnosed food allergies • Multiple sensitivities to environmental chemicals • Insight on the part of the child as treatment progressed • Mother’s weight loss as she implemented a Rotary Diversified Diet of organic tolerated foods for her son, and removed chemical exposures from the home

14. Animal Studies With Low-Dose Chemical Exposure

15. Evidence for Obesagens

16. NHANES National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

17. Important Question for 21st Century Healthcare “No Longer a question of whether the patients before you have chemicals in their bodies.” “The question is how many, and what are the health consequences?” Adrienne Sprouse, M. D., M. Ed.

18. How Do Environmental Chemicals Get Into Our Bodies? • What we eat or drink • What we breathe • What gets absorbed through our skin • Maternal/Fetal transmission • Implantation of medical devices Once they enter our bodies, they enter our bloodstreams and circulate to every organ causing multi-system and sometimes metabolic dysfunction. ESur

19. Food Allergy, Food Addiction, Obesity • Fixed Food Allergy 10% • Each and every time you eat the food, symptoms occur • Cyclic Food Allergy 90% • Symptoms depend on frequency and amount of the food • Milk, wheat, corn, egg Rinkel Wheel

21. Rotary Diversified Diet with Organic Foods • A single organic food is eaten at each meal on a 4-day schedule-see handout • The child can help select the foods to be tested • Food families are separated by one day • Amounts for a 10 year-old child are suggested • A diary is kept by the child and caretaker • Symptom-causing foods are eliminated for at least one month or allergy shots are developed • Non-reactive foods are incorporated into the diet once every 4 days • Weigh the child every 2 weeks

22. Summary • Obesity is not simply a matter of too many calories consumed versus not enough calories burned • Genetics cannot account for the runaway increase in obesity in America • Obese children typically have other health issues • Environmental chemicals and food allergies are unsuspected causes of obesity and other concurrent medical problems and must be diagnosed and managed to control the obesity epidemic