Read it: 'Healing and Preventing Autism'

By: Steve Jacob

Autism has increased exponentially since the 1970s, with the prevalence rate going from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 150. For heartbroken parents, a diagnosis can seem like a life sentence. Healing and Preventing Autism: A Complete Guide (Dutton, $26.95) is a hopeful manual for parents and healthcare providers. The authors are pediatrician Jerry Kartzinel and actress Jenny McCarthy, whose son was successfully treated by Kartzinel.

Kartzinel blames autism on environmental and dietary triggers. That seems to be circumstantially correct. Pesticide and chemical use has risen dramatically, as has food processing, in the past three decades. Kartzinel calls it "toxic overload."

The physician suggests a number of prevention strategies and disease therapies to remove suspected exposures by process of elimination. He emphasizes patients can recover from autism, but not be cured, because it is a chronic condition. Kartzinel estimates 20 percent of patients can recover, 30 percent of cases can become mild, and 20 percent can be high functioning, with the remainder fairly resistant to therapies.

The book’s Q&A format is clunky, with McCarthy asking the questions and Kartzinel providing the answers. McCarthy has been the author of a number of successful books about parenting, but she is a B-list actress at best and her suspect celebrity status neither warrants her dominant presence as inquisitor nor adds value. A standard narrative would have worked far better.

Source: Star-Telegram

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