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Healthy & Helpful Tools in the Kitchen
[Food-and-Drink:Cooking-Tips] Regarding diet and eating healthfully, we spend a lot of time talking about what foods to eat and what not to eat. We spend less time thinking about how to prepare the food, cook it, and the tools to use to be effective at eating healthfully.

Quality Food is Key to Autism Diets
[Health-and-Fitness:Autism] Because food is medicine, quality food is key. The nutrition principles generally touted in the media and through the nutrition community seem to focus on quantitative factors such as counting calories, grams of fat, levels of sodium, etc. They routinely fail to consider: the effects of artificial ingredients on the liver or brain, how MSG damages the hypothalamus, the effects of sugar on yeast, that certain foods are inflammatory to the gut, or how nutrient density influences brain function. These food factors affect the body's biochemistry and must be strongly considered when applying diet for autism spectrum disorders.

Can Autism Diets Help Recover a Child From Autism?
[Health-and-Fitness:Autism] Pursuing recovery is not about "curing" autism. Pursuing recovery is about believing in and taking action toward improved health and healing. Specific autism diets can help children improve in many ways. For the parent of a child with autism, the food that they choose to serve their children is vitally important to their healing.

Healing Diets Alleviate Autism Symptoms
[Health-and-Fitness:Autism] You really enjoy your monthly autism support group. The mom sitting next to you is busy jotting down this week's shopping list. You notice some interesting items: coconut flour, rice noodles, gluten-free cereal and quite a few organic fruits and vegetables. You know right away what path this mom has gone down-special autism diets. You wonder if these diets really do have benefits for children with autism.

Choosing an Autism Diet For Recovery
[Health-and-Fitness:Autism] The road to autism recovery begins with diet. That is, making calculated omissions and additions to food choices is the first step to improving children's health and well being. Certain food substances (most notably gluten and casein) are known to be problematic, and should be avoided - and other foods rich in healing nutrients are beneficial when added to children's diets. Attention to these factors is intended to balance biochemistry, affect systemic healing, and provide relief of autism symptoms. In simple terms, these are the underlying tenets of diets for autism.