Patti Wood joins Mark Alyn talk about her book, Helping to Heal. The book is written for parents of children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses and is being widely distributed through hospitals, treatment centers, support groups and Ronald McDonald Houses all over the country.
Caring for a seriously ill child is one of the greatest challenges of parenting. It is a time when your instinct is to nurture and protect, but you may have feelings of helplessness and frustration while doctors and other health care professionals manage your child’s illness.
Helping to Heal is a practical and engaging guidebook that helps parents become important partners in their child’s healing process by encouraging them to prepare nutritious, nutrient-dense meals and provide a safe home environment, two things that only parents can provide.
A heightened interest in the role of nutrition in healing and the recent focus on children’s unique vulnerability to environmental toxins make this book not only useful, but very timely. The most recent President’s Cancer Panel Report, the American Academy of Pediatric’s “Handbook of Pediatric Environmental Health” and a new statement by the American Cancer Society vigorously support the book’s message and it has been enthusiastically embraced by doctors, nutritionists and researchers working on children’s environmental health issues around the world.
Patti shares her thoughts on the book with Mark, as well as some of the other projects that her non-profit is currently engaged in, including the issue of wireless radiation exposures and potential impacts on human health.