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> No low gluten diet, Jenny McCarthy BS, I wouldn't link a low gluten diet with "Jenny McCarthy BS". My wife teaches autistic children and she told me that al

> No low gluten diet, Jenny McCarthy BS, I wouldn't link a low gluten diet with "Jenny McCarthy BS". My wife teaches autistic children and she told me that all the children, not most, all children in the classroom have had improvement when put on low gluten diets. I don't pretend to be as close to the issue as you, but you would be wise not to dump on an issue just because it didn't work for you:)

tokenadult 17y ago
http://www.asatonline.org/suggreading/reviews/elder.htm http://www.asatonline.org/suggreading/reviews/elder.htm A carefully designed study, http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html rather than anecdotes, doesn't support a conclusion that gluten-free diets are helpful for autism. Nonetheless, the study reports, http://www.asatonline.org/suggreading/reviews/elder.htm http://www.asatonline.org/suggreading/reviews/elder.htm "even after being informed of these disappointing results, some parents opted to keep their child on the GfCf diet." Patient human interaction with autistic children does seem to be helpful, and my cheers to anyone who is providing that.
- KirinDave 17y ago
  Going to show that the three most dangerous words in medicine are, "In my experience..." They are both a blessing and a curse.
  - DenisM 17y ago
    The scary part is that once I realized this I was feeling all enlightened. Then I realized it again and then I felt even more enlightened. And then I stopped and asked myself - is my current realization the final one? How deep is the rabbit hole? This is some seriously scary stuff.
ZeroGravitas 17y ago
Firstly, the low gluten thing, if it didn't start with Andrew Wakefield (the guy getting once again slated for his unprofessional and fraudulent behaviour), it became big because of him Second, reviews of the evidence show no evidence of a link, and suggest that the weird diets can actually be causing harm. So feel free to dump on this issue.
oconnor0 17y ago
I wonder if their improvement was due to the low gluten diet or because they're forced to find healthier foods to eat - because you have to be more careful about what you eat & can't eat unhealthy bread, etc.
jfarmer 17y ago
With all due respect, you don't have any evidence it worked for those children, either.
nollidge 17y ago
How can you tell it was the diet without eliminating other variables? This is why personal experience is not evidence; in no way are confounding variables accounted for when you're just informally observing things.

tokenadult 17y ago

http://www.asatonline.org/suggreading/reviews/elder.htm http://www.asatonline.org/suggreading/reviews/elder.htm A carefully designed study, http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html rather than anecdotes, doesn't support a conclusion that gluten-free diets are helpful for autism. Nonetheless, the study reports, http://www.asatonline.org/suggreading/reviews/elder.htm http://www.asatonline.org/suggreading/reviews/elder.htm "even after being informed of these disappointing results, some parents opted to keep their child on the GfCf diet." Patient human interaction with autistic children does seem to be helpful, and my cheers to anyone who is providing that.

KirinDave 17y ago
Going to show that the three most dangerous words in medicine are, "In my experience..." They are both a blessing and a curse.
- DenisM 17y ago
  The scary part is that once I realized this I was feeling all enlightened. Then I realized it again and then I felt even more enlightened. And then I stopped and asked myself - is my current realization the final one? How deep is the rabbit hole? This is some seriously scary stuff.

ZeroGravitas 17y ago

Firstly, the low gluten thing, if it didn't start with Andrew Wakefield (the guy getting once again slated for his unprofessional and fraudulent behaviour), it became big because of him Second, reviews of the evidence show no evidence of a link, and suggest that the weird diets can actually be causing harm. So feel free to dump on this issue.

oconnor0 17y ago

I wonder if their improvement was due to the low gluten diet or because they're forced to find healthier foods to eat - because you have to be more careful about what you eat & can't eat unhealthy bread, etc.

jfarmer 17y ago

With all due respect, you don't have any evidence it worked for those children, either.

nollidge 17y ago

How can you tell it was the diet without eliminating other variables? This is why personal experience is not evidence; in no way are confounding variables accounted for when you're just informally observing things.