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from TFWA >In their report, the AAP found that they could not recommend the use of special diets for children with autism spectrum disorder because of inadequa
by thomasz 13y ago
from TFWA
>In their report, the AAP found that they could not recommend the use of special diets for children with autism spectrum disorder because of inadequate evidence.
> A 2008 systematic review from the Cochrane Library indicates that a gluten-free and/or casein-free diet has not been shown to have any effect on the behavior or functioning of individuals with autism
> The systematic review, conducted in 2009, concluded that the results "reveal that the current corpus of research does not support the use of GFCF diets in the treatment of ASD.
- guruz 13y agoI don't know what TFWA or AAP are, but those statements are quite useless. If you have a child with those problems and you want it to be healed, of course you can just try it for some months. If it works great, if it does not what did you lose? Not eating diary/grains is not that hard. (And there's clearly a lot of information on the web about this diet and autism, so it must work for someone)
- oftenwrong 13y agoMight as well try prayer healing too. If it works great, if it does not what did you lose?
- guruz 13y agoBad comparison. Don't underestimate the power of the placebo effect :-) But seriously: Say you are suffering some problem. You would not do something because scientific sounding entity x and y say a solution to this problem does not work, but a lot of other people say the solution works? That's not logic/sane behaviour.
- yetanotherphd 13y agoWhen you delete the word "sounding" it becomes very rational behavior.