| If anyone thinks they have not been affected by | | | | of heart disease, fractures, diabetes, obesity, |
| child abuse, looking at current statistics should tell you | | | | unintended pregnancies, alcoholism, and sexually |
| otherwise. The costs of child abuse in the United | | | | transmitted diseases. Although diseases such as |
| States has been estimated to be around $94 billion. | | | | these also affect those who have not been severely |
| That would appear to affect every taxpayer in | | | | abused as children, a closer look at this information is |
| every community across the nation. Of that $94 | | | | important. What clues are we being given in this |
| billion, roughly $55 billion is attributed to adult criminal | | | | research data on the abnormal physical health |
| behavior linked to early child abuse. | | | | problems of an abused child into adulthood? |
| When children are victims of sexual or other forms | | | | How might diet interventions change the long term |
| of severe and chronic abuse, it can cause a lasting | | | | and overall outcome of child abuse? Might not it be |
| impact on their developing brain. Chemical changes | | | | possible to apply objectively proven nutritional diet |
| develop to create response patterns that can | | | | strategies that have overwhelmingly demonstrated |
| continue through out a lifetime. Calculating the dollar | | | | relief of disease symptoms of those diseases |
| amount of child abuse on communities begins with | | | | mentioned above in study after study? |
| the need for more services that are funded by | | | | By trying the tried and true method of of disease |
| taxpayers with needs such as: | | | | prevention through nutritional means and applying it at |
| 1.School programs for at risk children. | | | | the earliest possible age deserves a chance in |
| 2.Lost productivity programs for the adult | | | | mainstream application. |
| unemployed or underemployed. | | | | Although this technique alone would clearly not |
| 3.Increased need for crime prevention and | | | | eliminate the need for counseling services for the |
| incarceration services. | | | | abused, it may just be the simplest method to use |
| 4.More mental and physical health care programs. | | | | as a first step prevention method in providing long |
| People then begin to understand the epidemic | | | | lasting results. |
| proportions that child abuse brings with other related | | | | While we are waiting for a better prevention model |
| issues to their communities. | | | | and others to light the way for us, America is |
| The child advocacy Center reports that one in three | | | | definitely sick and getting sicker. Our nation is not |
| girls and one in four boys will be sexually abused by | | | | listening to the impact poor nutrition has on our |
| the age of eighteen. Dysfunctional household | | | | society |
| situations where someone was in prison, a mother | | | | Whether it be hearts, lungs, kidneys, or brains, all |
| treated violently, there was an alcoholic or drug user, | | | | body organs need fed properly to function normally. |
| a chronically depressed parent, mental illness or a | | | | Brain health is treatable through a proper diet. Lack of |
| suicidal influence accounted for most of the recurrent | | | | proper feeding produces disease. The better |
| causes of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. | | | | prevention model is here right now and has been |
| A common denominator of nearly all child abuse | | | | proven to work! |
| survivors is they also have some type of an immune | | | | Body, mind, and spirit are as one and treating each |
| deficiency such as: lupus, multiple sclerosis, cancer, | | | | body part separately, as in what the conventional |
| arthritis, fibromyalgia, or chronic fatigue. | | | | drug model does, will be a model that will eventually |
| Researchers have also uncovered increased likelihood | | | | be doomed to fail. |