Safety of SCD / Was Re: Variations

September 16, 2005

Mimi-

Thanks for the info.

recoverymaze recoverymaze@...> wrote:

SCD is the safest autism biomedical intervention. The foods on the SC

Diet are very similar to the foods of primitive people. It has been

found that primitive people have less degenerative diseases than modern

people. Many illnesses developed after we started using grains. The

grains are harder to digest, interfering with the absorption of needed

nutrients, and, of course, the elimination of toxins. Both the Bible and

science agree that we are the descendants of folks who did not eat

agricultural food.(Adam and Eve did not farm in the Garden of Eden). Our

stomachs were not designed for potatoes and grains.

There are several prominent DAN doctors who use SCD for ALL their

clients with autism and getting outstanding results. If there was a

subgroup of children who regress with SCD,then we would know about

it by now.

The autism/SCD movement has been around for more than 3 years and we

have not seen any regressions except for the initial bad reactions. We

get very few reports of children who do worse on SCD. We thoroughly

investigated all the complaints and found the cause for these cases:

*Child did not get enough calories because he could only eat a few

foods. Children who can only eat a limited variety of foods can recover

from autism with SCD but their parents might need the extra help of a

counselor to make sure that they get enough calories..

*Child got junk food from a new source and parent did not know about it.

We had a mother who initially,saw fantastic results with SCD but soon

her son became really worse. Many months later,she found out that the

bus driver was giving out treats on the bus.

*Parent implemented SCD incorrectly.

*Temporary setbacks can discourage parents from continuing the diet. and

make parents to believe that SCD is dangerous for their child. Sometimes

there are setbacks during the first year on SCD when the dying gut

bacteria emit their worse poisons. This situation is more common for

adults who have GI symptoms and is referred to as " flares " . This

phenomenon can happen at the beginning at the diet and is called

" initial bad reactions " . If a child gets an initial bad reaction to SCD

then either persevere or try to make a slower and more gradual

transition to SCD.

*Parets add a food that provokes a reaction for the child .

*Iron deficiency(I will post a separate post about this topic)

All of the challenges above may be overcome.There are now SCD counselors

who are there to help the parents implement the SCD diet. They have had

great success in reversing diet outcomes. Do not give up on this diet

if you have problems,it is a wonderful therapy for our children!

http://www.pecanbread.com/SCD_Solutions.html

Mimi

For information on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, please read the book

_Breaking the Vicious Cycle_ by Elaine Gottschall and read the following

websites:

http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info

and

http://www.pecanbread.com

September 17, 2005

I can attest to this. Giving my daughter oatmeal over a year ago thinking

it would help her get unconstipated, led me to learning she was gluten

intolerant. She got more constipated instead of less which led me to

research and finding out that oatmeal and many other products contained

gluten. Bloodwork by a gastroenterologist didn't show her to be gluten

intolerant, but eliminating food products containing it helped her problem a

lot, but it wasn't until the SCD diet that we have begun to see real

progress in her constipation problems. It's funny after all the things

we've looked into

throughout the years, I never picked up on the research being done regarding

kids with autism and gluten intolerance. We were already eliminating so

many foods I discovered to be a problem (like lactose, corn syrup, red dye,

etc.) with

Kim's seizures that I guess I didn't want to think about one more thing.

Marilyn

Daughter Kim, age 20

SCD since April

Safety of SCD / Was Re: Variations

> Hi a and List Members,

>

> a meant this for healthy persons. Oatmeal is bad for a child with

> carbohydrate malabsorption(most kids with autism and/or IBD). The oats

> cannot be digested and end up as food for the gut bugs who are

> destroying our children's GI tract.

>

> Mimi

> Ex oatmeal lover

>

>> I do, however, think a good bowl of

>> oatmeal gets those poops moving, in a healthy person. Just my two

>> cents.

>> a H.

>>

>

> For information on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, please read the book

> _Breaking the Vicious Cycle_ by Elaine Gottschall and read the following

> websites:

> http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info

> and

> http://www.pecanbread.com

>

September 17, 2005