Important Message from Elaine/Re: Getting Started

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Old message.... worth reposting. -Patti

Important Message from Elaine/Re: Getting Started

from Elaine Gottschall: Date Mon, 7 Jun 2004 4:34 AM

After the introductory diet, Carol has gone through the chapter on foods

allowed on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet and has presented a good summary

of facts abstracted from my chapter on the diet.{See the post below}

There is absolutely no other way to find out in every individual case

which

foods should be carefully tried next. Some children thrive for the first

couple months on most of the foods with the exception of beans,

lentils and

members of the cabbage family. So go for the other foods slowly and

carefully. Only you can determine if your child has an idiosyncracy

to some

of these foods.

I have given you instructions in the autism chapter as for dairy.

Once the

gut begins to heal, many, many parents have noted significant improvement

with slow introduction of the yogurt. The casein protein in dairy is an

excellent protein and appears not to bother children once they are on the

Specific Carbohydrate Diet for a few weeks. As I instruct, introduce the

yogurt slowly and watch. The leaky gut generally stops " leaking " and then

the wonderful protein of dairy can not only be well tolerated but

appears to

bring about significant improvement.

It is just guessing if we try to give you an outline with stages.

While at

the DAN conference in Washington, I heard people telling me that the

stages

were interferring with introducing some very good recipes. For

example, one

nutritionist was concerned that she could not use the banana pancakes

because the stages stated not to use oil until later. I explained to her

that the stages were an attempt to help some people but were just

" guesses. "

She was relieved to find that she could then fry the pancakes in butter or

oil.

Some people may want to use the stages; others find them too restricting.

{This is the summary from Carol}

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> If you are just getting started this may help:

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> I have the new 10th edition with the autism chapter noted on the cover.

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> Page 62: " Ripe mashed bananas is one of the fruits that can be

tried first

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> Page 63: " When brisk diarrhea is no longer present egg may be

added to the diet

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> Page 64: " As is advisable for all people, , a daily diet should

consist of vegetables, fruits, nuts and some animal products

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> Page 69 " When diarrhea and cramping subside, cooked fruit, banana

and additional vegetables may be tried. As the individual feels

better, the rest of the diet may be introduced

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> Page 71 " There is no specified schedule for introducing foods with

the exception of yogurt

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> P.S. We have been called very strict and it is true. It says in BTVC:

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> Page 68: It is unwise to attempt this regimen unless you are

prepared to follow it with FANATICAL ADHERANCE