Designing an Autism Diet Requires Knowing About the Ideal Human Diet

There are a Myriad of Problems When it Comes to an Autism Diet

Autism makes an already very complicated problem for healthy people more troublesome when it comes to an autistic child diet. Lets pinpoint some of the issues:

• arguments about what is a healthy diet relative to diet composition: low-fat, low calorie, low-carb, high protein
• how many grains, fruits, or vegetables
• an autism diet is further complicated by texture and taste
• religious beliefs
• arguments by university experts
• government organizations, and expert panels
• economics and family lifestyle

Diet Recommedations are Made by Expert Organziations But Really Reflect "Group-Think-Hidden-Agendas" and Have Nothing to Do with Diets That Truly Confer Real Health

A low-fat diet is still the one most recommended by health experts although the low-carb diet has recently taken the country by storm.

Most health experts believe that people are committing dietary suicide by following a low-carb diet.

What usually ends up happening is that some expert takes a piece of dietary advice and advances it as a significant factor in maintaining health. No disease condition escapes the hordes of people providing dietary advice. The autistic child diet has been singled out for a large amount of attention.

Rarely is there any compelling evidence to support the adoption of a specific dietary protocol for autism. Two of the most popular today are the gluten free/casein free diet (gfcf) and the specific carbohydrate diet (scd) each requiring much dietary micromanagement.

These two diets are examples of what most diet plans do: assign health-destroying qualities to specific fragments of whole foods.

The autistic child diet now becomes one in which these food fragments are isolated and parents go about following tedious recipes, and eating regimens, all in an effort to avoid the offending agents.

Too Much Micro-Managing of Diet Can Be a Major Stress to the Child and the Whole Family

In my view of autism as a Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, this dietary regimen becomes just another stress added to the already overwhelming number of stressors experienced in autism. Further, the family experiences the same stress from experimenting with these dietary manipulations.

Designing an appropriate autism diet starts with understanding the ideal foods for human health.

Ideally, the autism diet should be low in carbohydrates of all kinds: this includes sugar, fruits (particularly fruit juice), vegetables, and grains. These all digest to glucose which is one of the most toxic substances on the planet.

Naturally, protein intake will be good and so will fat because the diet would be high in animal products -- the longtime ideal diet for humans.