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Autism Vox

August 18th, 2008

Gluten-free more and more common (and not just for autism)

Gluten-free doesn’t have to mean flavor-free: the ultimate guide to wheat-less eating trumpets a recent post on Epicurious. Who don’t you know (sister-in-law, aunt, close friend from college) who hasn’t noted to you, “I’ve been going gluten-free and I feel so much better….”.
As long as my son’s been diagnosed, the gluten-free casein-free diet has been […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 13 comments

August 7th, 2008

Beyond Anecdotal Evidence: Clinical Trial of the GFCF Diet

We started our son Charlie on the gluten-free casein-free diet over nine years ago, when he was two years old. After several years of faithfully adhering to it, with the rationalization that “since Charlie can’t say how he feels when eats wheat and dairy, we’d best just keep him off them,” wheat (not dairy—-milk products […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 20 comments

April 3rd, 2008

The AAP Looks Into Biomed (and I throw out the xanthan gum)

So the American Academy of Pediatrics has met with leaders of advocacy groups, including Autism Speaks and the Autism Society of America, and also with “representatives of Defeat Autism Now! (a program of the Autism Research Institute) in an effort to facilitate communication between pediatricians, parents and researchers about the diagnosis and treatment of children […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 9 comments

March 13th, 2008

Special Diet, Charlie Style

There was a time (mercifully brief) when Charlie would only eat chocolate chip cookies. This was back in the spring of 1999: We had just taken him (permanently, though we did not yet know it) out of daycare, where he was known to “carbo load” on biscuits, pancakes, and the like. We were living in […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 19 comments