About the Book
The Kid-Friendly ADHD & Autism Cookbook highlights the best diets for children with these special needs. You'll find recommendations for school lunches and snacks, plus brand-new recipes. One of the challenges that parents face is coping with children who have picky appetites and crave the very foods that negatively affect their behavior, focus, and development. Linked to this is the challenge of finding ways to get their children to eat the healthy foods that will improve their nutrition.
The Kid-Friendly ADHD & Autism Cookbook provides a current review of the commonly used diets for the treatment of ADHD and autism, and recipes appropriate to specific diets. It also provides suggestions for feeding picky eaters, including those with texture issues. The authors share details about just how and why each diet works, examine specialty ingredients in-depth, and provide extensive resources and references. The speciality diets covered include: Gluten-free, casein-free, soy-free; Feingold diet: low phenol, low salicylate diet; Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) and Gut and Psychology Syndrome Diet; Anti-yeast/candida diets, or Body Ecology Diet; Low Oxalate Diet (LOD); FODMAP (Fermentable Oligo-, Di- and Mono-saccharides, And Polyols); Anti-inflammatory diet; Modified Atkins and paleo diet; Rotation diet
Despite the restrictions of these diets, this cookbook offers an array of tasty choices that kids will love, including shakes, muffins, rice and beans, salad, stews, and even sweets and treats. This comprehensive guide and cookbook is chock-full of helpful info and research, and includes more than 100 kid-friendly recipes, organized by their suitability to each speciality diet.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
• Updates to be consistent with new materials
Chapter 1 - Food Reactions - What They Are and How To Test for Them
• Discuss digestive issues that predispose individuals to food reactions;
• Gut dysbiosis
• Leaky gut
• Move the Dope on Opiates to Chapter 3.
• Add more specifics about how the diets apply to the individual. not to all with autism or ADHD.
• Details on how individual diets apply to the individuals who have problems with specific foods, based on their own unique biochemistry, gene variants, enzyme functions, and digestion.
New Chapter 2 - Healthy Diet is the 1st step - Improving Your Nutritional IQ
• Avoids and why - move items from previous Chapter 4 to here
• Includes and why -Material from previous chapter 4
• Move chapter 5 (Yes, There is Plenty Left to Eat)
• Update is needed since each diet is different.
• General Square Diet Chart here
• What about Supplements
• Special diets which eliminate foods can result in a need to replace missing nutrients. Supplements can fill the gap.
• Many children with ADHD and Autism have unique biochemical and digestive differences that can increase the need for nutrients beyond the normal baseline.
New Chapter 3 GFCFSF
• Focus only Gluten-Free, Casein-Free, Soy-Free GFCFSF
• Culprit foods and other agents (see previous Chapter 3) - include "The Dope on Opiates"
• Underlying individual factors which can cause reactions: biochemistry, genetics, digestion, enzyme functions and more.
• Update information on symptoms suggestive the diet may be helpful.
• Recommendations
• Foods and agents to avoid
• Emphasize inflammatory nature of gluten.
• Add information on animal milk sources to avoid and include (A1 and A2 milk, goat milk, camel milk)
• Substitutes
• Square Meal for GFCFSF
• Supplements: enzymes, digestive, probiotic, nutritional
• Resources
New Chapter 4- Feingold Diet: Low Phenol, Low Salicylate Diet
• Food / dietary / medicinal culprits
• Underlying individual factors which can cause the reactions: biochemistry, genetics, digestion, enzyme functions and more.
• Symptoms suggestive the diet may be helpful
• Recommendations
• Foods and agents to avoid
• Substitutes
• Square Meal for Low Phenol
• Supplements: enzymes, digestive, probiotic, nutritional
• Resources
New Chapter 5 -Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) and Gut and Psychology Syndrome Diet (GAPS)
• Foods, dietary, medicinal culprits
• Underlying individual factors which can cause reactions: biochemistry, genetics, digestion, enzyme functions and more.
• Update information on symptoms suggestive of which diet may be helpful.
• Update information on SCD and GAPS sources to avoid and substitutes. Explain the differences and similarities.
• Recommendations
• Foods and agents to avoid
• Substitutes
• Square Meal for SCD, GAPS
• Supplements: enzymes, digestive, probiotic, nutritional
• Resources
New Chapter 6 - Anti Yeast / Candida Diets, Body Ecology Diet
• Food / dietary / medicinal culprits
• Underlying individual factors which can cause the reactions: biochemistry, genetics, digestion, enzyme functions and more.
• Symptoms suggestive the diet may be helpful
• Recommendations
• Foods and agents to avoid
• Substitutes
• Square Meal for these diets
• Supplements: enzymes, digestive, probiotic, nutritional
• Resources
New Chapter 7 -Low Oxalate Diet (LOD)
• Food / dietary / medicinal culprits
• Underlying individual factors which can cause the reactions: biochemistry, genetics, digestion, enzyme functions and more.
• Symptoms suggestive the diet may be helpful
• Recommendations
• Foods and agents to avoid
• Substitutes
• Square Diet: Low Oxalate Diet
• Supplements: enzymes, digestive, probiotic, nutritional
• Resources
New Chapter 8 - FODMAP (Fermentable Oligo-, Di- and Mono-saccharides, And Polyols)
• Food / dietary / medicinal culprits
• Underlying individual factors which can cause the reactions: biochemistry, genetics, digestion, enzyme functions and more.
• Symptoms suggestive the diet may be helpful
• Recommendations
• Foods and agents to avoid
• Substitutes
• Square Meal for FODMAP
• Supplements: enzymes, digestive, probiotic, nutritional
• Resources
New Chapter 9: Other Diets to Consider
• Anti-Inflammatory Diet
• Food / dietary / medicinal culprits
• Underlying individual factors which can cause the reactions: biochemistry, genetics, digestion, enzyme functions and more.
• Symptoms suggestive the diet may be helpful
• Recommendations
• Foods and agents to avoid
• Substitutes
• Square Meal Anti-inflammatory
• Supplements: enzymes, digestive, probiotic, nutritional
• Modified Atkins and Paleo
• Food / dietary / medicinal culprits
• Underlying individual factors which can cause the reactions: biochemistry, genetics, digestion, enzyme functions and more.
• Symptoms suggestive the diet may be helpful
• Recommendations
• Foods and agents to avoid
• Substitutes
• Square Meal: Atkins, Paleo
• Supplements: enzymes, digestive, probiotic, nutritional
• Rotation Diet: When to Consider a Rotation Diet and How To Do It.
Chapter 10: Getting Started and Bumps Along the Way Chapter 11: Dealing with the Diet and Common Concerns
• Picky appetites, texture issues, and odd food choices.
• Medical issues to consider: (e.g., reflux, esophagitis, constipation)
Chapter 12: A Complete Guide to Making Breakfast and Packing Lunches Chapter 13: Introduction to Recipes We will update icons on recipes where feasible to indicate if compatible with the new diets we have added and/or add some separate recipes in each section that are relevant to the new diets. Chapter 14: Beverages and Healthy Shakes Chapter 15: Condiments, Dressings, and Sauces Chapter 16: Breads, Muffins, Waffles, and Pancakes Chapter 17: Main Dishes and One-Dish Meals Chapter 18: Rice and Beans Chapter 19: Vegetables and Side Dishes Chapter 20: Salads Chapter 21: Soups and Stews Chapter 22: Fruits, Sweets, and Treats End Page pull out with chart of foods and diets Resources About the Authors
About the Author :
Pamela J. Compart, MD, is a developmental pediatrician in Maryland. She combines traditional and complementary medicine approaches to the treatment of ADHD, autism, and other behavioral and developmental disorders. Dietary changes and use of nutritional supplements complement traditional treatments such as appropriate educational placement and speech therapy, occupational therapy, and other therapies. She is currently in solo practice, focusing on her passions of patient care, teaching, and writing. She is also coauthor of The ADHD and Autism Nutritional Supplement Handbook.
Dana Godbout Laake, RDH, MS, LDN,is a licensed nutritionist in Maryland. Within her practice she provides preventive and therapeutic medical nutrition therapy to adults and children. In addition to writing and hosting a radio show, Dana is a scientific advisor and content contributor for the Autism Exchange and for the Neurological Health Foundation Healthy Child Guide. She is also coauthor of The ADHD and Autism Nutritional Supplement Handbook.
Review :
Praise for the last edition:
"Autistic spectrum disorders continue to be a major topic in the news. This mysterious group of developmental disorders still has no known cause, but those who have them seem to have a high incidence of digestive problems. Dietary interventions often lead to improved functioning. [This book] offer[s] information about diets and recipes that appeal to children. Compart, a developmental pediatrician and Laake, a registered dietitian, cover the gluten-free, casein-free diet and its use in treating both ADHD and autism. They explain what the diet is, why it works, and how to transition a child onto it. Kid-friendly recipes make up the book's core. There is also a resource list."
--Barbara M. Bibel, Oakland P.L., Library Journal
