Nutritional epigenetics education improves diet and attitude of parents of children with autism or attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Table 1 Content of each module of instruction

Module	Title/book chapter	Topics covered	Activities	Films
One	How food regulates and supports gene function	Genes, epigenetics, gene regulation, methylation, hypomethylation, methyl donating nutrients, micronutrients to support PON1, BDNF, and MT	3	Ghost in your genes (BBC television)
Two	What we eat or don’t eat leads to disease	Characteristics of SAD, obesity, malnutrition, nutritional deficits, gene malfunction, USDA food availability system, refined sugar and vegetable oil consumption trends	3	Super size me (streaming documentary)
Three	Ingredients that add heavy metals to your body	Allowable heavy metal levels in food ingredients (e.g., food coloring, preservatives), food manufacturing, chlor-alkali refining, known contaminants (e.g., vegetable oils), zinc deficiency in autism and ADHD	4	The medicine of food (Smithsonian Institute)
Four	What we know about corn sweeteners	Corn sweeteners, manufacturing process, contamination, ultra-processed foods, heavy metal bioaccumulation, western diet - > western disease	2	King corn (streaming)
Five	What we know about pesticides	Chlorine, USDA Pesticide Data Program, OP, PON1 gene function in autism/ADHD, symptoms of OP poisoning	3	The autism revolution: Thinking about environment and food (IATP)
Six	How we can create a safe food environment	Current food regulations (e.g., ingredient safety and labeling), history of FDA, food allergies, dietary supplements, Hg in fish issues, healthy food labels	4	No video

ADHD: Attention deficit hyperactivity/disorder; OP: Organophosphate; PON-1: Paraoxonase-1; MT: Metallothionein; FDA: Food and Drug Administration; IATP: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.