Building on the work of others, Larry Churchman provides an explanation for the rise of chronic diseases of the body and mind over recent decades: asthma to Alzheimer's, autism to early onset diabetes, depression to self-harming. New insights for medical practitioners and parents to be. Could there be a single root cause of most Western diseases? Why are some folk troubled by a range of Western diseases and others not? Presenting new ways of thinking about Western diseases and the surprising impact of bottle-feeding on our health worldwide. Here is a new approach to so-called autoimmune diseases and their root cause. And warnings about the use of palliative pharmaceuticals to hide symptoms of underlying atopic disease. A new definition of atopic disease is presented. Charles Darwin's experience of atopic symptoms is investigated.