Your monthly autism
support group is helpful.
Sometimes, a mom sitting
next to you is busy jotting down a shopping list.
You notice some
interesting items: coconut flour, rice noodles, gluten-free cereal and quite a
few organic fruits and vegetables. Immediately you realize that this mom must
follow a special autism diet for their child.
You may wonder if these
diets really do benefit children with autism.
You may have done little
research on diet, as you have been very focused on behavioral therapy.
What are the facts
supporting autism diets? You may begin to wonder if your child can benefit.
Diet is an important
part of intervention for autism.
According to leading
autism organizations, autism pediatricians, nutritionists and parents around
the globe, autism diets provide measurable results in helping reduce children's
symptoms of autism.
There are many diets
that autism nutrition specialists, physicians and parents are applying with
great results.
They are the Gluten-Free
Casein-Free (GFCF) Diet, Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD), Gut and Psychology
Syndrome (GAPS) Diet, Low Oxalate Diet, Body Ecology Diet, Feingold Diet and
the Weston A. Price Diet-each with their own individual healing properties.
Autism diets are
recommended and applied with the help of nutrition consultants based on a
child's autism symptoms, food allergies and sensitivities, digestive capacity,
family history, bio-individuality, and a number of other criteria.
According to parents
polled by Autism Research Institute (ARI), after mercury/heavy metal chelation,
autism diet is the most effective intervention for children on the autistic
spectrum - more that any drug, nutrient or other biomedical therapy.
One simple healing
principle holds true today: thousands of children are finding relief from
symptoms of autism as parents correctly and diligently apply autism diet.
Autism is treatable and
diet helps.
Parents and physicians
consistently report improvement in the following symptoms: stimming, sleep,
language, eye contact, attention, hyperactivity, learning, fatigue, aggression,
self-injurious behavior, rashes, digestion, diarrhea, constipation and gas.
While children
experience symptom alleviation at different levels, the GFCF Diet, for example,
shows a 65% improvement rating ("got better") as reported by
thousands of parents in an Autism Research Institute (ARI) survey; Specific
Carbohydrate Diet, while a smaller sample of hundreds, has shown a 66%
improvement.
Every parent with a
child on the autism spectrum that takes the time to do cursory research and
read parent reports regarding autism diets finds that they have a very powerful
healing tool right at their fingertips.
While it's important to
consult a qualified autism nutrition and diet specialist, it's beneficial to
take the time to understand and explore how food heals and how a particular
diet may help your child.
Since parents feed their
child every day, the more you comprehend diet and nutrition, the more effective
you can be.
Visit autism diet websites and explore the
leading autism diet books available.
You are your child's
most important health advocate.
On your next trip to the
grocery store, take these first simple steps to implement a healing autism diet
for your child.
Purchase organic fruits
and vegetables when possible; remove all artificial ingredients, colors and
preservatives from food choices.
Do not purchase pre-package foods such as
canned or frozen chili, macaroni and cheese or taco seasoning.
Serve only meat from
grass-fed animals when possible. By choosing nutritional organic foods to
prepare for your family, you remove harmful toxins, colors, additives,
pesticides, PCBs, antibiotics and hormones from your child's dinner plate.
The first diet most
parents, physicians and autism nutritionists recommend is the Gluten-Free
Casein-Free Diet.
Find out about the
interesting facts behind this diet-it's helping many children on the spectrum.
Enjoy the process-if a
healing diet might help your child, why not try it? Connect with parents on
autism diet Facebook and Yahoo! groups for success stories, resources, new
ideas, recipes and diet implementation tips. Remember, the most important step
to implementing autism diet-just start!
Julie Matthews, a top US
biomedical autism diet/nutrition specialist and Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!)
Practitioner, helps parents recover children from autism. She is a parent/physician
educator and creator of Nourishing Hope for Autism Nutrition
Intervention for Healing Our Children" (Book) and "Cooking to Heal
Autism Nutrition and Cooking Classes" (DVD). Visit http://www.NourishingHope.com to
study autism diets and view video presentations.
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