So, eat your greens with some high-fat, salad dressing or other source of fat, needed to trigger bile release. You will get 8-13 times more nourishment from them! Yes. Documented. - page 52
Researchers have long known that ingesting too much undercooked, lectin-bearing foods (especially rice and beans) can cause nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting (“Musta been something I ate”). What they didn’t know was how lectins cause this food poisoning. Some lectins are resistant to cooking. As a side note, soaking beans overnight before cooking them reduces the lectin content dramatically. Most people do not know why beans prepared this way makes them easier to digest, but it is simply because the water-soluble lectins have been largely removed through the changing of the water during soaking. Organic, sprouted-grain, bread products (with no added gluten) appear to be the safest and healthiest way to reap the nutritional benefit of grain without the lectin burdens. Modern wheat contains far more lectins, as does GMO grain products (double amounts). - page 80
Okra, a vegetable, provides a rich source of lectin-binding, protective mucilage. It helps protect the digestive tract from lectins and harmful microorganisms. Like the other sugars discussed above, it also helps remove existing lectins that are already attached to cells. Okra, in combination with the proteolytic enzyme pepsin, may help clear away excess mucous formed in the digestive tract as a result of food intolerance or food allergy, thus allowing for better absorption of nutrients. Okra is often beneficial for ulcers, colitis, malabsorption, and other intestinal problems. It essentially helps to cleanse the intestine. - page 82
Sucrose (table sugar) leaks into the blood, and this abnormal sugar in the blood stream causes a host of problems. Sugar increases the amounts of calcium, oxalate, uric acid, and glycosaminoglycans in the urine. - page 92
Zinc, sodium, potassium, and chloride are required in optimal amounts for production of HCl. If these things are not happening, your child may refuse meat, or will not digest it well, producing ammonia. He may also suffer acid reflux damaging his esophagus (in 67.4%). These same cells also release “Intrinsic factor” necessary to utilization of vitamin B12. - page 94
While one can supplement high amounts of GLA to overcome chronic inflammation, it is far better to recognize why we need a supplement. It is because of a too-high intake of Omega-6 oils (and too much carbohydrate that promotes excess insulin). We take in 20X’s too much polyunsaturated oils (linoleic acids from canola, soy, safflower, peanut, etc.), and we eat such an imbalanced diet that we cannot convert these excess, Omega-6, fatty acids to GLA because the Delta-6 Desaturase enzyme is being blocked. Specifically, we eat a high-carbohydrate, high-glycemic dietary that creates a chronically-high insulin level that, along with certain nutrient deficiencies, block Linoleic acid from being converted to GLA and drives such GLA as is to be had toward AA because insulin not only blocks Delta-6 Desaturase, but it overwhelms the inhibitory effect of EPA on Delta-5 Desaturase. - page 140
In another study, researchers measured plasma, amino-acid levels of 36 ASD children and found that all had multiple deficiencies. This should come as no surprise, but what is troubling is that 10 of the 36 children were on a gluten-free/casein-free (Gf/Cf) diet, and those ten were found to have the most severe deficiencies. This is not surprising, as commercial interests, habit, and self-selection have made Gf/Cf into a high-carbohydrate diet. In time, increasing allergies and self-selection narrow the diet still further. Initial gains are sometimes lost, and the child is literally starving. A child cannot thrive on such a diet! Either the SCD diet or Donna Gates’ Body Ecology diet is likely a better approach. - page 6 [Specific Carbohydrate Diet http://pecanbread.com/ - bfg]
There are many physical signs of protein deficiency in children. A very common one is the characteristic protruding abdomen that so many children with autism have. Other signs include low muscle tone, reduced weight gain or growth, and weak or slow-growing nails. You must not allow the diet to be largely carbohydrate. - page 6
The importance of this is in the realization that Candida produces acetaldehyde in abundance and many of these children actually are drunk much of the time from a high-carbohydrate diet! Yes, their pancreas makes alcohol! - page 52
Neurological symptoms were associated with environmental factors 84% of the time, and associated with foods 16% of the time. Included in this group of symptoms were head banging, seizures, cognitive abilities, withdrawal, depression, temperament, moodiness, OCD, violence, aggression, sensory sensitivity, self-stimulation, and social interaction - social awareness and abilities. Nevertheless, a study of 45 children following an SCD dietary and environmental avoidance protocol found the children’s symptoms largely disappeared. - pages 19-20
Additionally, a lack of magnesium coupled with the same aluminum intake, increased the load of aluminum in the brain and nervous system. Fluoride increases the amounts of aluminum in the brain also. Autistic children are universally lacking in zinc and magnesium, and show toxic levels of aluminum and mercury. Those mercury poisoned and those magnesium deficient are notoriously low on vitamin B1 and B6. Scary. - page 54
Actually, the dehydration, often caused by excessive amounts of sugar in the form of wheat and other grains, bread, and any form of sugar including fruit juices, causes a breakdown of the mucosal surfaces leading to the leaky gut syndrome and all forms of allergies. Once dried out, there is no mucosal protection against the ever-present yeast, molds, bacteria, pollens, and various allergens. It is vital that you increase the child’s intake of water in most instances. Drinking a glass of water 30 minutes before eating increases the mucosal film significantly. - page 92