Arsenic in rice - What do I feed my kid?

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Safflower oil is a high heat oil.Works we'll with my son. We use olive for dressings etc that are not cooked. Hope this helpsMom to 5 year-old Liam Re: Re: Arsenic in rice - What do I feed my kid? Grapeseed oil tolerates higher heat. Walnut oil, too.Sent from my Kindle Fire

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, only after we enjoy our delicious waffles, of course...#insert more evil laughter#.

On a serious note, I will take a look and see. My guess would be to look in the direction of commercial grade.

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I think we all at one point or another get tunnel vision with following diets or any protocol...I have to remind myself over and over that one kid that does well on a certain diet does not mean it is goin to work for everyone...I couldnt even say the specific diet my son is on...other then after careful journalling i have found the foods specific for him that work...i think its great to use diets a s guidelines...gfcf , low oxylate , scd ect....but at some point we have to tailor it to our own kid....i always suggest in extreme illness to start with veggie soup because i find it is usually the easiest to digest and then build from their....add in foods slowly one every couple days....

and if a kid does well on organic wheat then that is what is good for your kid:)

i wish mine could eat wheat....i would be bakin delish breads and muffins all day long:)

To: mb12valtrex Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 3:08 AMSubject: Re: Re: Arsenic in rice - What do I feed my kid?

The one thing I've learned now is that if something doesn't look right to you, then it's time to try something else. If you see that he has more gut issues now than he did before GFCF, don't feel bad at all about adding gluten and casein back in. My kids had the same thing happen to them and I learned that my biggest mistake was that I kept at it because of the feelings of guilt about not doing so. Maia couldn't do milk for a while because of problems with leucine metabolism but since we upped the R5P, she's able to fully have dairy now (although I do moderate it because I don't want her to have leucine overload, I'm not entirely sure that pathway's fully fixed yet). Again, the problem's metabolic with my kids and not exactly because of "allergies". The GFCF diet pivots a lot on "allergies" and about not getting traces of gluten onto your spoon and cookware and toaster. But if it's metabolic, then you're looking

at something else altogether. I did speak to the kids' GI specialist about it at our final meeting a few weeks ago. She wanted to know what we did to resolve our GI issues and I said that we added in mito support. She admitted that she does see a lot of ASD kids with GI issues who experienced the same thing with the mito support.Not all kids get better on GFCF. It made my son a lot worse and the gut issues were the first thing to get worse and then his autism symptoms got worse until I put him back on dairy and then gluten. He has no allergies -- I think all his food issues are metabolic-based. I sometimes wonder if I could have made it better again if I abandoned GFCF sooner for him. Go with his gut, not what a diet says. I'm finding that we're getting a lot more gains when I listen to the kids' bodies. My son needed cysteine after being CF for a long time. His stools didn't improve

again until I added dairy back in and he got a lot better when I supplemented NAC for a while. What happens is that as B1 and B2 are depleted, more and more metabolic functions start shutting down and that's why some people start seeing increasing food intolerances. It isn't because they're allergic. It's because more and more metabolic pathways necessary to process different foods stop working. If I could define what GI issues involving mito dysfunction look like, I'd say it looks like increasing food issues and GI symptoms as you try to navigate the foods to avoid. If I could go back in time, this is how I would've tackled it with my kids from the get-go when I saw that they had problems with the GFCF diet:1. I'd remove the problematic foods temporarily. Casein and soy for my daughter. Gluten and rice for my son.2. I'd add in good mito support (first start with a good b-complex, then carnitine,

coq10, then adjust B1, B2, and B6 to balance things out -- not only will these help the gut, but they happened to help a lot of my kids' ASD issues, too).3. Add foods back slowly. Some foods might take longer than others, and there may be instances where some foods are never to be added back again (but you want this to be a minimal list). I gotta say, my life's not a living hell anymore after I was able to add foods back in.4. Add in lots of antioxidants to mop up the mess.5. Then, when metabolic functions are a bit more stable (not necessarily fully stable but just to the point where they can start processing fats, carbs, proteins, and aminos better), then hit the other supps like EFA's, your bacteria/yeast/viral/parasite/chelation protocols. Chances are, when you fix the mito functions, the body is stronger and better equipped to suppress bacteria, viruses, parasites, yeast and detox on its own and it's not an uphill

battle with the different protocols. They'll still need the protocols to give them a boost. When mito functions aren't working properly, it means that gateways to certain nutrients are closed and that means that entire components of the body's natural defense systems cannot be absorbed, which will result in a broken natural defense system. Not saying the protocols aren't necessary, but you don't want to be fighting bacteria, viruses, yeast, parasites, metals, toxins forever. Again, this is for what I saw in my kids. This exact process would've helped both of them much sooner. Some people may not need to do this because they don't have the underlying mito issue. Not all kids are the same but I wish I would've realized this sooner for my kids.

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this is......AWESOME!!

To: mb12valtrex Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 11:21 PMSubject: Re: Arsenic in rice - What do I feed my kid?

You can always have the rice products you are using tested for arsenic (or other metals for that matter). Both of my kids (ASD and NT) are above the 95% line for arsenic in their hair tests. My and son is on SCD and doesn't eat rice. I am having his pear juice tested as well as the soil in our yard to try and determine the source. I've dropped off the samples but don't have the results yet. It's $15/test/metal so i figure the $45 is worth knowing. i live in seattle and testing through http://amtestlab.com/default.aspCheers, mardi