The Body Ecology Diet
by Patricia S. Lemer, MEd, NCC
[Initially published in New Developments: Volume 11, Number 3 - Spring, 2006]
Another diet for those with attention deficits, autism and related disorders! Enter the Body Ecology Diet (BED). Its developer, nutritional consultant Donna Gates, believes that the key to understanding these problems lies deep within the intestinal walls. Recognizing the value of the amazing "subculture" of microflora in our intestinal tracts could prevent and heal these and other disorders.

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Is Sugar Toxic?
Gary Taubes, The New York Times
April 2011
That it makes us fat is something we take for granted. That it might also be making us sick is harder to accept.

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Collected Net Articles of Kalle Reichelt, M.D.
Contains articles on the connection between Mental Disease, Autism, Allergies, etc., and Gluten/Casein Intolerance. Table of Contents to articles below: Intolerance to food proteinsDiet and mental diseaseDietGluten, autism and schizophreniaAutism and coeliac disease.Intestinal permeability in schizophreniaTrace amount of protein in milk.Diet and mental disease.ADDHA.Schizophrenia and dietGluten, casein and behaviourEar infections, allergy, autism&glutenBehaviour and glutenDowns syndrome and gut permeabilitydietary proteins in mothers milkCopious stools.Soy intoleranceConcentrated carbohydrates and Hyperkinesia4 year follow upFood and mental problemsAutoimmune states.More On Autism-Gluten relationshipFood allergy vs. intolerance, soy and autism.Down.Reintroduction of milk.c/f and g/f diets.Pruning

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The Latest News About Sweet Potatoes
How sweet it is for your health to eat sweet potatoes! Not only do they taste like dessert, but they also provide some surprising health benefits. Many people think about sweet potatoes as being nothing more than plain old potatoes that can tweak our taste buds with some extra flavor.

Yet cutting-edge research on sweet potatoes tells us that nothing could be further from the truth as they have so many unique nutritional benefits to offer! Sweet potatoes feature a surprising number of nutrient categories responsible for the health benefits of this underappreciated tuber. Among these categories are antioxidants, anti-inflammatory nutrients, and blood sugar-regulating nutrients. Each category brings with it valuable health benefits.

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The Latest News About Walnuts
No aspect of walnuts has been better evaluated in the research than their benefits for the heart and circulatory system. Some review studies have emphasized the very favorable impact of walnuts on "vascular reactivity," namely, the ability of our blood vessels to respond to various stimuli in a healthy manner. In order to respond to different stimuli in a healthy way, many aspects of our cardiovascular system must be functioning optimally. These aspects include: ample presence of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory nutrients, proper blood composition, correct balance in inflammation-regulating molecules, and proper composition and flexibility in our blood vessel walls. Researchers have determined the ability of walnuts to have a favorable impact on all of these aspects.

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Acai Berry - Abstracts
Five abstracts:1. Lichtenthaler R, Rodrigues RB, Maia JG, Papagiannopoulos M, Fabricius H, Marx F. Total oxidant scavenging capacities of Euterpe oleracea Mart. (Acai) fruits. Int J Food Sci Nutr. 2005 Feb;56(1):53-64.2. Hassimotto NM, Genovese MI, Lajolo FM. Antioxidant activity of dietary fruits, vegetables, and commercial frozen fruit pulps. J Agric Food Chem. 2005 Apr 20;53(8):2928-35.3. Del Pozo-Insfran D, Brenes CH, Talcott ST. Phytochemical composition and pigment stability of Acai (Euterpe oleracea Mart.). J Agric Food Chem. 2004 Mar 24;52(6):1539-45.4. Cordova-Fraga, T., D. B. de Araujo, T. A. Sanchez, J. Elias Jr, A. A. Carneiro, R. Brandt-Oliveira, M. Sosa, and O. Baffa. "Euterpe Oleracea (Acai) As an Alternative Oral Contrast Agent in MRI of the Gastrointestinal System: Preliminary Results." Magn Reson Imaging 22, no. 3 (2004): 389-93.5. Ewel, J. J. "Species and Rotation Frequency Influence Soil Nitrogen in Simplified Tropical Plant Communities." Ecol Appl 16, no. 2 (2006): 490-502.

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Food Sensitivities
"One man's food is another man's poison" is a familiar and centuries old saying which simply states that different people can have very different reactions to exactly the same food. For example, few of us would think twice about munching on peanuts while cheering for our favorite baseball team, however, for individuals with a sensitivity or allergy to peanuts, a mere whiff of just the peanut powder could pose a life threatening situation. Fortunately, few of us will ever have to worry about such extreme reactions to foods, but it may come as a surprise that at least 30% of us will experience one or more episodes of some kind of food sensitivity during our lifetime.

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Protein
Protein was the first substance to be recognized as a vital part of living tissue. In fact, the word protein comes from the Greek word proteos, which means "primary" or "taking first place," indicating the importance of this nutrient in the function of the body. Accounting for 20 percent of our body weight, proteins perform a wide variety of functions throughout the body as vital components of body tissues, enzymes, and immune cells.Excellent sources of protein include tuna, shrimp and cod.

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Early Childhood and School Age
During early childhood and school-age years, children begin to establish habits for eating and exercise that stick with them for their entire lives. If children establish healthy habits, their risk for developing many chronic diseases will be greatly decreased. On the other hand, poor eating habits and physical inactivity during childhood set the stage for health problems in adulthood.

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Essential Nutrients in the World
Essential nutrients are nutrients that your body can't make on its own. How these nutrients are introduced into your body may have a great impact on how well they are utilized. Nutrients do not work alone but in concert (synergistically) with other nutrients. The benefit of deriving nutrients from eating fresh whole foods such as those included on the list of the World's Healthiest Foods is that they provide not only an abundance of individual nutrients but also the variety necessary for their optimal function. This section is designed to inform you about the function of the various nutrients and which of the World's Healthiest Foods are the richest source for each of them.

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Low-Carbohydrate Diets and Children
Children need a healthy balance of carbohydrates, protein and fat to get the calories and nutrition they need every day. Although some parents may choose to cut carbs from their diet, this is not a good idea for children. Carbohydrates are the body’s main source of energy and are needed to help children grow, learn and play. Active children depend on carbohydrates for energy to fuel their muscles during sports and physical activity.

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Protein
Did you know that almost all the parts of your body are made up of proteins? Foods containing protein are important – they give you the building blocks to help keep you strong, all life-long! What is protein? Protein is one of the major nutrients that contribute to a sensible, balanced diet. Some other major nutrients are carbohydrates and fats. All three of these nutrients contain calories. Proteins contain four calories per gram.

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Bright Papers For Parents: Give Your Child a High Five for Fiber
Getting enough fiber is just as important to your child's health as it is to yours. Fiber helps regulate your child's digestive system by promoting regular bowel movements. Adequate fiber also helps keep cholesterol and blood sugar levels low and may help reduce your child's risk for certain cancers later in life. An added bonus is that fiber helps fill kids up without filling them out. There's an easy way to figure out how much fiber your child needs. For kids ages 3-18, just add 5 to their age to determine the number of grams of fiber they should eat each day. For example, an 11-year-old child needs 16 grams of fiber per day (11 5).

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Functional Foods Fact Sheet: Soy
Soybeans are native to East Asia, where they have been an important food staple for centuries. There is documentation of soy being cultivated as early as 1100 BC and of the use of soybean oil around 1061 AD.1, 2 Within the last two decades, soy products are increasingly being incorporated into the American diet. Soybeans are legumes (as are beans and peas). Some foods made from soybeans include tofu, tempeh, miso, soybean oil, and, of course, soy sauce. However, with increasing popularity of soy-based foods, a multitude of other soy products—so called “second generation” soy products—and soy ingredients have become available, such as soy milk, soy flour, soy protein concentrate, and soy protein isolate. Soy protein isolates and concentrates have been used to develop a range of food products including beverages and meat alternatives such as “veggie burgers” as they can be processed to function similarly to the traditional sources of protein in meat and dairy products.

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Nutrition for Children and Teens: Helping Your Kids Develop Healthy Eating Habits
Peer pressure and all those television commercials for junk food make it tough to get kids to eat well, but we have tips for healthy eating every parent should know.

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Comparison of Low-Carbohydrate Diets
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, published every 5 years by the US Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services, offer advice on healthy eating and physical activity to promote good health and reduce the risk of chronic disease. The Food Guide Pyramid translates the Dietary Guidelines and other nutritional standards into the kinds and amounts of food to eat each day. Both the Dietary Guidelines and the Food Guide Pyramid are due for revision in 2005.

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The Latest News About Apples
Apples are such commonly consumed fruits that it's easy to overlook their amazing and unique health benefits. Apples combine certain nutrients in a way that sets them apart from all other fruits and makes them a food of choice for achieving several health goals.

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The Latest News about Collard Greens
Unlike broccoli and kale and cabbage, you won't find many research studies devoted to the specific health benefits of collard greens. However, collard greens are sometimes included in a longer list of cruciferous vegetables that are lumped together and examined for the health benefits they provide. Based on a very small number of studies looking specifically at collard greens, and a larger number of studies looking at cruciferous vegetables as a group (and including collard greens on the list of vegetables studied), cancer prevention appears to be a standout area for collard greens with respect to their health benefits.

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Toxins on Tap
by Wendy Gordon
[Initially published in New Developments: Volume 4, Number 3 - Winter, 1998-1999]
This article, the first of two, will increase your awareness of what goes into the water we drink. The follow-up article, "More About Water," will be in our Spring issue.

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More About Water
by Wendy Gordon
[Initially published in New Developments: Volume 4, Number 4 - Spring, 1999]
"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth, when clearly it is Ocean." Arthur C. Clarke

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Say Good-Bye to Allergy-Based AD(H)D and Autism: Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Techniques (NAET)
by Devi S. Nambudripad, DC, LAC, RN, PhD
[Initially published in New Developments: Volume 6, Number 1 - Summer, 2000]
Alexander has dark circles under his eyes and a constant "cold." After finishing off macaroni and cheese, he throws a temper tantrum when asked to hang up his jacket. He wants ice cream; his mother promises it after he finishes his homework. He throws his book at her. His doctor has diagnosed attention deficit disorder. Is that the problem, or is he allergic to milk products?

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Is Your Child Malnourished?
by Kelly Dorfman , M.S., Cofounder of DDR
[Initially published in New Developments: Volume 6, Number 4 - Spring, 2001]
Malnutrition is often associated with the image of a thin, forlorn child with a distended belly. Another kind of malnutrition, with high and empty calories, runs rampant in America, among people who never experience deprivation. Children with developmental delays are especially susceptible to this type of malnutrition because they tend to be picky eaters or may be on restricted diets for the treatment of allergies or autism.

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Nutrient Therapies: Seeing the Big Picture
by Kelly Dorfman, M.S., Co-founder, DDR
[Initially published in New Developments: Volume 7, Number 1 - Fall, 2001]
Every day we hear a new theory about the cause of autism. First it was "refrigerator mothers," then sulphotransferase de?ciency or DPP4 enzyme malfunction, then G-alpha protein malfunction. More recently we targeted heavy metal toxicity and now a metallothionein protein (MT) defect. Just listing the biochemical shortfalls associated with developmental delays would fill this newsletter.

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Hooked on Carbohydrates
by Kelly Dorfman, M.S., Cofounder, DDR
[Initially published in New Developments: Volume 8, Number 2 - Winter, 2002-2003
"Sam will eat as many cookies as I give him but won‘t touch regular meals." "Erin is such a terrible eater. All she likes are French fries and bagels. If I suggest anything else, she has a fit!" Sound familiar? Are white foods the diet wreckers at your house?

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E is for Enzymes
by Kelly Dorfman, MS, Co-founder DDR
[Initially published in New Developments: Volume 9, Number 1 - Fall, 2003]
Children diagnosed with developmental delays have a high rate of digestive pathology. Studies suggest between 58 and 93% of children with gastro-intestinal (GI) symptoms, and slightly less than half of those without noticeable symptoms, have low digestive enzyme activity. While special diets, supplemental nutrients, good bacteria replacement and yeast treatment are all needed to heal these children’s guts, adding enzymes may be necessary for the complete restoration of digestive function.

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Gut Problems&Developmental Delays: Is the Specific Carbohydrate Diet the Answer?
This article is a compilation of material from the Kids and SCD website
[Initially published in New Developments: Volume 9, Number 1 - Fall, 2003]
Research shows that more than 50% of children with AD(H)D, PDD and autism have gut problems, food allergies, poor digestion or malabsorption. A Harvard University study found altered intestinal permeability ("leaky gut") in 43% of autistic patients, but not in any of the controls. Leaky gut leads to vitamin/mineral deficiencies, inflammation and toxins in the bloodstream. For parents of these children, their GI problems are a major concern. Those wishing to pursue chelation for heavy metal toxicity must wait until their children‘s gut pathogens are under control.

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Oxidative Stress in Autism Spectrum Disorders
by Woody McGinnis and Patricia Lemer
[Initially published in New Developments: Volume 9, Number 2 - Winter, 2003-2004]
The word "stress" has many different meanings. Various factors, including birth trauma, ear infections and antibiotics can increase a cell’s susceptibility to stress. (See New Developments, 1:3, "Total Load Theory") Stress occurs at a cellular level through a chemical process called oxidation. Most cells in the body are vulnerable to oxidation. Cells in the gut and the brain, both abnormal in autism, are particularly sensitive. One reason could be that they are under too much stress from oxidation.

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Yeast Metabolites and Distractibility
by Kelly Dorfman, M.S.
[Initially published in New Developments: Volume 2, Number 1 - Summer, 1996]
The medical histories of distractible children often include frequent use of antibiotics or steroids, digestive disturbances and/or allergies. Any one of these can impair immune functioning and pre- dispose children to the overgrowth of small amounts of pathological bacteria and yeast that normally reside in the gut in controlled amounts.

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10 Facts About Our Foods
by Betsy Hicks
[Initially published in New Developments: Volume 11, Number 4 - Summer, 2006]
Major changes in farming, food production, and processing have occurred over the past 50 years. The foods we eat today are not those our grandparents ate. Follow these guidelines to stay healthy.

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Improving Detoxification Pathways
By Kelly Dorfman, M. S.
[Initially published in New Developments: Volume 2, Number 3 - Winter, 1996-1997]
Preliminary research on autistic children in England and hyperactive youngsters in the United States has uncovered a possible common enzyme deficiency. The enzyme in question, phenol sulfo transferase-P (PST-P), is an important component of liver detoxification pathways. When PST-P is inefficient, the body cannot properly break down hormones, certain food components, and toxic chemicals. The reason many hyperactive children become agitated after eating foods with artificial colors is because PST-P is needed to render the mildly toxic dyes harmless.

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Sugar and Other Junk Foods: Big Problems in Tasty Packages
by Christine Winderlin and Dr. Keith Sehnert
[Initially published in New Developments: Volume 3, Number 4 - Summer, 1998]
Of all the foods that can damage the body, sugar seems to be the most effective. Sugar is sweet but has no nutritional value, lowers immune defenses, and encourages Candida growth. If large amounts of sugar are consumed on a daily basis, the result may be an immune system unable to fight infection. Dr. William Crook sums up the relationship between sugar and yeast growth: "Feeding sugar and simple carbohydrates to Candida organisms is like pouring kerosene on a fire."

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Grapes: When In Doubt, Go Straight to the Source
Thanks to the Mediterranean diet and the French Paradox, we've heard a lot about red wine and heart benefits. Thanks to the dietary supplement industry, we've also heard a lot about grape seed extract. But what about grapes themselves? Aren't these delicious fruits the original source of all red wine and all grape seed extracts?

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Light, Water, and Air: Improve Their Balance to Enhance Health
By Patricia S. Lemer, MS, NCC
[Initially published in New Developments: Volume 4, Number 3 - Winter, 1998-1999]
This issue of "New Developments" is devoted to making balance. Read about some simple improvements that those but with allergies, asthma and developmental problems can make in how they partake of nature‘s elements: light, water and air. When these are in balance, life flourishes; when balance is upset, so is development.

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