Which diet to choose?
Dietary intervention can have a profound effect on many of our kids.
Dr. Jim Adams and Julie Matthews just completed a study evaluating 13 therapeutic diets on 818 kids including benefits, adverse symptoms, and symptom improvement.
The diets included GFCF, ketogenic, Feingold, healthy diet, food avoidance, low sugar, specific carbohydrate, corn-free, casein-free, paleo, soy-free, and gluten-free.
The average overall benefit from the diet was greater than supplements and psychiatric medications.
Different diets were reported to affect different symptoms, suggesting that using an individual’s symptoms could be used to guide which diet may be most effective.
After averaging all of the diets, the top symptom improvements were in attention, irritability, cognition, health, hyperactivity, aggression, anxiety, language, and GI symptoms.
The results suggested that these can be safe and effective interventions for improving symptoms with few adverse effects.
Individuals who used therapeutic diets had significant improvement compared to those who didn’t implement one.
Many of the diets may seem overwhelming due to many of the sensory issues and limited repertoires of food that our kids consume.
The ANRC Autism Treatment Rater app can be downloaded where you can compare the data of the different diets, supplements, medications, and therapies’ effects on various symptoms.
I have found for clients and children that dietary intervention has been one of the most effective approaches and produces fewer adverse effects compared to supplements and medications.
I can help guide you through a personalized approach which may be the best diet to initiate for your child.
Diet is a major component of our Autism Healing Program.
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