Eating for Autism: The 10-Step Nutrition Plan to Help Treat Your Child’s Autism, Asperger’s, or ADHD
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Eating for Autism presents a realistic 10-step plot to exchange your child’s diet, starting with essential foods and supplements and tender to more advanced therapies like the Gluten-Free Casein-Free diet. Parents who have followed Strickland’s revolutionary plot have reported fantastic improvements in their child’s shape up, from his mood, sleeping patterns, learning abilities, and behavior to his response to other treatment approaches. Complete with 75 balanced, kid-friendly recipes, and advice on overcoming sensory and feeding skill problems, Eating for Autism is an essential resource to help a child reach his full potential.
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Excellent book, it has fantastic recipes and in rank about 10 or so basic vitamin supplements. But, the book fails to mention problems with protein intolerance and it’s relation to autism. Some of these proven to be linked to autism are creatine deficiency, urea cycle disorders, lysinuric intolerance and peroxisomal disorders. There is alot about nutritional intolerance to gluten but NOTHING about problems with protein intolerance. There is also an article about how aspartame is composed of aspartic acid and phenylaline and is plotting to cause problems because your brain is receiving sugar and two amino acids in your brain and may cause problems. I plotting that was really ridiculous and uninformed reason for that. Aspartame can be toxic if you have Canavan’s disease, and phenylaline can be toxic if you have phenylketonuria both which can can autism and mental problems. In all, excellent recipes and limited info on basic vitamins, a lot of un-referanced and speculation chat about autism. Nothing about disorders than can contribute to autism. I did like how she had a link of private tales though.
Rating: 3 / 5
My daughter has a chromo disorder, apraxia and epilepsy with some features similar to ASD. We have been looking at nutritional approaches to improve symptoms including low glycemic index, omega-3’s etc and vitamin/mineral supplements. Our physicians have stated there is not solid research evidence through sound clinical trials to support nutritional therapy and parental anecdotes are not enough, not all bodies are equal in amts/types needed. The book clarifies this situation pretty accurately. Docs/dieticians so far are okay with us giving supplements at RDA defensive levels as this will not hurt, but beyond that there is not much support. This book helps in that it puts together in one place all the vitamin, mineral, omega, etc in rank out there on RDA amounts and upper tolerable amounts for parents to use as a guide pending clinical trials (which the author points out as being trying and costly to achieve, and may be years out yet). I haven’t evaluated the recipes much as more in need of the supplement in rank, but glad to have them as a start.
Rating: 5 / 5
Before this book, I felt like I was finding my way in the dark through the nutitional maze. I found this book very helpful by giving me specific steps to follow. I liked having the right dosage for supplements. As a mother of a child with Down syndrome and Autism, it was vital to me to first have excellent health and then second to know when to seek help from a professional on the more specific interventions.
Rating: 5 / 5
My review is partly in response to another’s eval that states that this author purports foods that are not nutritious and that the author must not have reviewed the literature etc.
I judge this book makes a fantastic approach at addressing the nutrition issues most often found in those with Autism, ADHD, Asperger.
As a practitioner, eating issues are prevalent. This author cannot suggest salads,a litany of fruits, legumes if the child won’t even go near those food types! Most often the parents states that this is the case. The mother comes in desperate because they have spent weeks, months preparing broccoli 10 different ways, or have pureed every legume in the book to try to get their child to eat healthy, and nothing works, because they have not ongoing with the steps she outlines. The vegetables, fruits, legumes are the ideal end in mind. But it is reasonable to start at a place where the child is at and make changes towards the goal. Hence, the “recipes” for alternative chick nuggets, jello, etc. Start with the food that looks like what they would even allow to come near their mouth, basically. The resources provided in the back, the support literature is very apt. Getting a child to follow all of these steps and take every vit and min desired on a daily consistent basis, is NOT simple and can be trying. It is not unacceptable to say so. Any child that can do this on a daily basis, therefore would not appear to have an eating problem! Simultaneously, the title does not say nutrition encyclopedia. Instead the author gives resources for one to look up the nutritional content of food and if I know a dietitian when I see one, likely would give you nutrition and food group intake and analysis/suggestions for free if you questioned. Brilliant, helpful, urge it!
Rating: 5 / 5
I like the title and cover of this book. I opened it with fantastic anticipation and optimism. An apple, carrot, strawberry and broccoli…it doesn’t get any healthier than that! I was SO disappointed to find no reference to any of these foods in the book or index. The closest it comes is applesauce muffins and carrot cake. The recipe section on “Vegetables” does not include any fresh or green vegetables, only frozen vegetables. Where are the broccoli, chard, green beans, avocado, kale, zucchini and winter squash? The dessert section has fruit jello and pudding. No fresh fruits.
There is, in fact, no right NUTRITION in the book! The recipes are for “junk foods,” not REAL food. Chicken nuggets (2 ways even!), fish sticks and spaghetti and meatballs? What about broiled fish, lamb chops, turkey burgers, lentil patties, buffalo burgers, hummos, burritos? Microwaving food! I cannot judge that the authors would support microwaved food when it is so perilous. What an opportunity they missed to help people eat more healthy food!
I found the book’s negativity very disturbing. The authors convince the reader that following their instructions will be trying. Examples abound: page 9- One of the largest mistakes parents make…page 15 – preparing home-cooked meals can be trying…page 73- there’s small research on effective therapy to handle feeding problems in children with autism (not right)… page 75 – it’s going to take time to assemble a team…page 105 – there’s small research supporting a GF/CF diet in autism (not right)…page 121 – Unfortunately, there’s no clear cut dosage. Haven’t the authors seen the mother checklist from the Autism Research Institute? Two-thirds say their kids got better on the diet, and nearly no one got worse!
Calling an ELISA allergy test “controversial” in autism is simply incorrect. It is one of the most valuable tools we have for helping our kids.
Where did the authors learn the material they place in the book? Not a single footnote attributes material to its proper source! One of the first things I learned is to show some gratitude to my teachers. Other than the few folks they thanked in their acknowledgements, they mentioned no one!
I cannot urge this book to the autism community. Please look at Unique-Needs Kids Eat Aptly: Strategies to Help Kids on the Autism Spectrum Focus, Learn, and Thrive by Judy Converse and The Kid-Friendly ADHD & Autism Cookbook, Updated and Revised: The Ultimate Guide to the Gluten-Free, Casein-Free Diet.
If you want to learn more about the science behind diets and nutrition for autism go to Envisioning a Bright Future: Interventions That Work for Children and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders. It has references and other therapies that work even better once the child is well-nourished!
Rating: 1 / 5