Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label autism behavior diet

Autism and Diet By Kelly Jean Sullivan

 <script async custom-element="amp-auto-ads"         src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0/amp-auto-ads-0.1.js"> </script> Does diet affect autism symptoms? They found that  children with ASD are five times more likely to have mealtime challenges such as tantrums, extreme food selectivity and ritualistic eating behaviors . They also found inadequate nutrition to be more common among children with autism than in those unaffected by the disorder <amp-auto-ads type="adsense" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1763189992875486"> </amp-auto-ads> Does diet play a role in autism? According to the Autism Network,  nearly one in five children with autism are on a special diet . There is no specific ASD diet, but removing certain proteins may relieve symptoms. The gluten-free, casein-free (GFCF) diet has the most research and is one of the most common dietary interventions <amp-auto-ads type="adsense" data-ad-client=&q