Re: The Nut Diet vs The Real SCD/ IMPORTANT

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Bravo!

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this is an excellent explanation, thank you

Helen

>

> There is a diet that is pretending to be SCD and fooling many

> parents.

> Many parents think that they are doing SCD and are not aware that

> they

> are actually implementing the Nut Diet instead of SCD,confusing

the

> Nut

> Diet with the real SCD.

>

> Many parents begin SCD by replacing the breads

> and cookies of other diets with nut flours They also feed their

> children any food that is SCD legal without first going through the

> introductory diet and making sure that their child can tolerate

that

> food. This is done because most parents think that the rules of

> SCD

> and GFCF are the same. When parents start out with GFCF,they are

> allowed to use all the GFCF legal foods. It is important for

parents

> to

> realize that the rules for SCD are different. While the goal of

> GFCF is

> the elimination of foods that contain gluten and casein,the goal of

> SCD

> is to avoid foods that cannot be digested. A certain food can be OK

> for

> one

> child but not for another. Also,a food can be difficult to digest

> for a

> child during

> the first months on SCD but fine at a later time when more gut

> healing

> has happened.

>

> The important idea behind SCD is that " We must never forget that

> what

> the patient takes beyond his ability to digest does harm. "

> Undigested

> foods become great nourishment for the gut microorganisms that have

> an

> excellent ability to digest carbohydrates. These parasites then

emit

> toxins that destroy our children's gut and brains.

>

> Certain foods that are fine for advanced SCDers are not OK for

> beginners

> and might harm them. The most famous example is the nut flour. Many

> children cannot tolerate nut flours in the beginning stages of the

> diet.

> It is advised to start out with the intro diet and gradually

> introduce

> new foods. The " stages section " on www.pecanbread provide

> inspiration

> but there are no hard rules

> because our children are all different. The idea is to introduce

new

> foods gradually and watch carefully for reactions.That is how you

> implement the " Real SCD " . If you just feed your child any food that

> is

> legal SCD food without taking into consideration that some foods

> might

> be difficult to digest during the first months then

> you are doing the " Nut Diet " .

>

> As we see,there are two different ways to implement the legal SCD

> food

> list:the nut diet and the real SCD.

>

> Is the Nut Diet better than GFCF? Of course! Despite its

> shortcomings,it

> is a lot easier to digest than the starches that are allowed in

GFCF

> and

> other diets. I will give examples that might clarify this

confusion

> and

> show us that our children are unique and have different outcomes

> with

> the Nut Diet.

>

> Sue R-F had a 2 year old child who was extremely picky. only

> ate

> goat yogurt,banana,meat and nut muffins. She had constipation

but

> recovered with SCD and almost no other intervention (just a few

> sessions of Tomatis and a couple of hours a week of speech

therapy).

> While this nut diet was not optimal,it did recover a child from

> autism.

>

> Another mother,ST, had 2 children,she started with the nut diet and

> got improvements for both children. After about half a year

> later,she

> went back to the intro diet and introducing foods gradually. She

> reported that she got EVEN better results after reintroducing the

> foods

> gradually.

>

> Jen Young reported that her child was only able to eat a few foods

> during his first months of SCD. He could not tolerate nuts during

> his

> first 3 months on SCD. After starting the goat yogurt,Jen was able

> to

> feed her child more foods and enable him to recover from Autism.

Jen

> was only able to get results if she gave foods that were tolerated.

> If

> Jen had just followed the legal/illegal list,then her son would

have

> made no progress.

>

> L is a brilliant man who is very talented in science. He has

> written that SCD,supplements, and enzymes have helped his autism

> spectrum issues. He

> has stated that he does better without any nuts,despite the fact

> that he

> has been doing SCD for over a year.

>

> The advantage of the Real SCD is that it allows the parent to

design

> a

> diet that is custom made for that child and just right for each

> particular child. The Nut Diet is not optimal for a child who might

> have

> difficulties digesting nuts and other SCD legal foods during the

> first

> months( or with extreme cases,during the first year) of the diet.

>

>

> I have read on other lists the posts of parents who assert with

> great

> authority that SCD did not help their child's GI issues. In their

> post,they list the foods that they gave their child;there is always

> an

> advanced food on that list. I want to shout: " you cannot feed

> lentils to

> a child who has constipation,your kid's gut was not ready to digest

> this

> food and the undigested food fed the gut bugs. "

>

> I completely understand that it is hard for parents to do the real

> SCD,many children see other kids eating junk foods and feel

> deprived...some children are very picky.... I understand these

> difficulties and that is why we started a special list for children

> and

> SCD to help parents with these issues. What I ask of you is that

you

> be

> fair to other parents when you are evaluating your child's outcome

> with

> our diet. If you cannot do the real SCD but are doing the nut diet

> and

> not getting results,then please explain it to other parents. It is

> not

> fair to discourage other parents from doing SCD if one did not do

> it

> correctly.

>

> Before reporting about your child's SCD experience on other autism

> lists, please make sure

> that you implemented the diet correctly. When I used to do SCD

> counseling for free some time ago (I no longer have the time to do

> that), I found out that some parents asserted that they were

> following

> the diet 100% and not getting results. After talking to me,the

> parents

> quickly became aware that they were not implementing SCD correctly.

> After the mistakes were corrected, the child progressed with SCD. I

> no

> longer have the time to do SCD counseling but there are excellent

> ways to transform failures into

> success with this wonderful diet.

>

> If you are not happy with your SCD results,then please seek the

help

> of the list,websites,SCD pals and

> SCD counselors. It will be the best investment for your child :you

> will

> save lots of money because doing SCD correctly will shorten

> dramatically

> the amount of time that your child need to do ABA or other ASD

> interventions.

>

> Most parents of ASD children understand that a parent who

> implemented

> ABA,VB or RDI without the supervision of an expert might not get

> good

> results. ABA,VB and RDI are powerful tools for improving our

> children

> but they are complex and mistakes can easily be made by an

untrained

> parent. We need to understand that this situation might also occur

> with

> SCD for children with extremely difficult GI systems.

>

> We have been very lucky that we have been able to help so many

> children

> without private counseling but some children did fall

> betweeen the cracks when their parents stopped SCD without getting

> private counseling. This is a tragedy because a few sessions of SCD

> counseling can usually fix the problem and are so much more

> economical

> than other ASD interventions.

>

> Please do not give up on this wonderful diet without seeking help

> from this list,SCD counselors or experienced parents!!

>

> All the best,Mimi

>