Is BBQ GFCF? Texas Study on Diet and Autism
By Kim Stagliano
GFCF diet is getting attention and research at UT’s Health Science Center at Houston, Texas. I’m happy to see the study underway, since without proof on paper by scientists at a university, pediatricians will continue to turn around during the exam and roll their eyes when we mention the diet. Just as they did to parents who swore by the Feingold Diet before a study illustrating the adverse effects of artificial colors and flavors on behaviors proved what Mom and Dad had known for years. To its credit, the AAP did put out a statement about the success of the Feinfold diet for some children. It’s a shame American kids aren’t put onto this diet as a matter of course and “prescription” from a doctor (the only way many parents will try the diet) before ADHD drugs.
I have a couple of questions about this GFCF diet study.
1) Who is funding this study? 2) Why only four weeks long? Many of us did not see changes within this short time period. 3) How do they plan to ensure that there is no “cheating?” Will they give the families all of their food for the four weeks? It’s very hard to ferret out all sources of gluten and casein when you’re new to the diet and even as a veteran. 4) Who is funding this study? (Yes, I realize that one repeats.)
(HealthNewsDigest.com)- HOUSTON — Researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston have embarked on one of the first double-blind, clinical studies to determine whether gluten and dairy products play a role in autistic behavior as parents have anecdotally claimed.
The pilot study is one of seven current studies on autism in the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston.
“There’s a lot of misinformation, so that’s why this study is so important,” said Fernando Navarro, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics at the medical school and lead investigator of the study. “Hundreds and hundreds of parents think this works but we need serious evidence.”
Read the full article HERE.
Kim Stagliano is Managing Editor of Age of Autism. She just ate two pieces of birthday cake. One she baked for her husband’s birthday, loaded with gluten and casein. The other she baked for her children, GFCF. Which tasted better? Only her hairdresser knows… (and if you’re too young to get that line, my apologies. Google it.)
Source: Autism News
