SV: Question re diet study

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Fra: Kalle Reichelt

Til: n Klaveness

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Dato: 18. mai 2001 09:02

Emne: Re: SV: Question re diet study

>Good morning.

>The first study on schizophrenia and grain free diet ( incidentally also

>milk free ) was from Papuan highlands and some islands in the pacific.

>Schizophrenia was a reare disease indeed in the grain free areas (1,2).

>Autism has not been looked at this way .However, immigrants to Europe from

>low grain very low casein intake countries results in an increased

>incidence of autism as would be expected(3). Incidentally the same holds

>for schizophrenia (4,5). The peptides in autism and schizophrenia are very

>similar . I suspect that the difference in phenomenology is largely duet to

>the fact that schizophrenia breaks out after puberty mostly when the

>personality is established already.

>References

>

>1. Dohan FC et al (1984) Is schizophrenia rare if grain is rare ? Biol

>Psychiat 19: 385-399.

>2. Lorenz K.(1990) Cereals and schizophrenia . Adv Cereal Sci Technol X:

>435-469.

>3:. Gillberg IC, Gillberg C. Autism in immigrants: A population-based study

>from Swedish rural and urban areas. J Intell. Disability Res 1996; 40: 24-31

>4.Selten JP et al (1997) Schizophrenia in Suraminese and Dutch Antillean

>immigrants to the netherlands: Evidnece of an increased incidence. Psychol.

>Med 27: 807-811.

>5.on G et al (1997) Increased iosncidence of psychotic disorders in

>migrants from the Caribbean to the United Kigdom . Psychol Med 27: 799-806

>For those who read Scandinavian :

>Lehtinen V ( 1987) Schizophrenins epidemiologi Nord Med 19 : 112-116.

>

>All the beat Tiny the Nog.

>

>

>K. Reichelt

>Pediatric Research Institute

>N-0027 Oslo, Norway

>Tel: +47 23 07 29 85

>Fax: +47 23 07 27 80

>E-mail: K.L.Reichelt@...

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