Eating for Autism: The 10-Step Nutrition Plan to Help Treat Your Child’s Autism, Asperger’s, or ADHD

Halfway through this book so far and learning a lot. Wish I got this sooner. Reading to learn how to support adhd dietary needs and wish I knew this book existed sooner. Thank you for the reasonable price Amazon

Very informative book. I’m still learning and love this book

My daughter has a chromo disorder, apraxia and epilepsy with some features similar to ASD. We have been looking at nutritional approaches to improve symptoms including low glycemic index, omega-3's etc and vitamin/mineral supplements. Our physicians have stated there is not solid research evidence through sound clinical trials to support nutritional therapy and parental anecdotes are not enough, not all bodies are equal in amts/types needed. The book explains this situation pretty accurately. Docs/dieticians so far are okay with us giving supplements at RDA preventive levels as this will not hurt, but beyond that there is not much support. This book helps in that it puts together in one place all the vitamin, mineral, omega, etc information out there on RDA amounts and upper tolerable amounts for parents to use as a guide pending clinical trials (which the author points out as being difficult and costly to achieve, and may be years out yet). I haven't evaluated the recipes much as more in need of the supplement information, but glad to have them as a start.

I checked this book out of our library. I am buying a copy because the recipes are delicious. Most of the baked goods call for a mix of brown rice flour and sorghum flour, and they are every bit as good as recipes made with regular flour. The information regarding the 10 steps is quite overwhelming. I found a more succinct resource for modifying the diet in The Autism-ADHD Diet by Barrie Silberberg, so if you haven't yet read up on changing diet, I'd suggest you start there first. However, once you adopt a gluten-free, casein-free diet, this book has amazing recipes.

I have three kids and one (7 yrs old) with a metabolic disorder who is currently in the GFCF diet. I purchased this book because it included recipes for my child. Since I was experiencing the same side effects of the disorder (bad temper, angry, no tolerance etc) with my first boy (9 yrs), I decided to test him and the results came positive for the same disorder. I agree with the author of the book that many of our kids are not getting the essential nutrients and minerals they need for proper nutrition. My second child was diagnosed by one psychologist and one psychiatrist with ADHD and they were ready to medicate him but I decided to explore other options like providing him with proper nutrition and going to the geneticist. I can say that after two years in the proper diet my son is a 4.0 student doing great and with no medications at all. He was just missing the right amount of nutrients required for proper functioning. It is just plain and simple we are not eating right. We need to be very careful of what we feed our children because sometimes their behavior might be due to just an allergy or bad nutrition. This book was really an eye opening for me and believe me, I already recommend it to all of my girlfriends with children.

I'm not in to a lot of self help books but I really enjoyed this book. My son has severe ADHD and I was desperate for help where medications were failing us. I have been very pleased with the suggestions and implemented almost all but gluten free diet. The suggestions on eliminating red food dyes & certain preservatives made a huge difference for us. The format is easy to read over a period of time in short increments and very easy to understand. My friend who is a licensed nutritionist recommended and said that she has been using quite a bit in her practice with great results. The author gives background on how the body functions and metabolizes different substances and the mechanics of why some of the vitamins and neutraceuticals work to improve body functions. Highly recommend.

The cover is a little deceiving but it’s a good book for what it is.

what a great read and a wonderful place to start for food therapy. My son with aspberger's has now been GFCF for 8 months and it is a dramatic difference for him. The little light in him just got brighter and brighter. Results began happening for him with in the first two weeks. If your son or daughter is on the spectrum, please consider this treatment for you child.