SCD was to prevent ketosis

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The whole reason behind the creation of the Specific Carbohydrate Diet

was to prevent ketosis.

SCD was created by Dr Haas to prevent ketosis and to give patient with

celiac a source of carbohydrates.

During the 1920's some excellent doctors discovered that in celiac

disease proteins were very well handled, fats were handled moderately

well, while carbohydrates were badly tolerated, almost invariably

causing relapse or a return of diarrhoea after a period of improvement.

To comply with these findings,Dr Howland put patient with celiac on a

diet that excluded all carbs.

Dr Sidney Valentine Haas, working with Dr Howland, was in full

agreement with Dr Howland's work but was interested in learning if

some form of carbohydrate could be added to the diet to hasten

recovery and provide a more varied and nutritious diet. He had noted

reports throughout the years whereby children with severe diarrhoea

had done very well on banana flour. It was at the Home for Hebrew

Infants that Dr Haas first experimented with banana feeding. One of

his patients was an infant who had difficulty in

eating. The baby refused all food. Dr Haas offered the baby a banana.

At that time, banana was considered completely indigestible by a sick

child. Everybody was horrified at the idea of feeding it to an infant

everybody,that is, except the infant, who not only took it but asked

for more. He was given more and thus Dr Haas discovered the banana

could be well tolerated.

He then decided to experiment with the banana, as the sought after

carbohydrate source, in the dietary treatment for coeliac. He soon

discovered that coeliacs could tolerate this carbohydrate, and, more

than that, the banana could be fed in large quantities with beneficial

effects. He further experimented with carbohydrate containing fruits

and some vegetables and found that they, too, could be tolerated and

the coeliac could regain health on a far more varied diet than just

protein and fat.

This was abridged from the following website:

http://www.scdiet.org/7archives/scdceli1.html

Whatever happened to the cure for coeliac disease?

It is very important for all parents of children with ASD to read this

website.

All the best,Mimi