Re: carrots and great behavior

[Guest guest]

Why do you need to restict carbs? Just wondering.

Patti

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I can't give him so many carrots every

day due to the sugar, or carbs, or whatever I can't let build up too

much.

[Guest guest]

> Why do you need to restict carbs? Just wondering.

>

Yeah, its probably not the carbs. Maybe the starch, sugar? I just

don't know - I can't tollerate much more information or my brain is

going to explode! All I know is any food every day for becomes

too much. When he reacts to food it is always a day of unfocused

hyperactivity followed by 3-4 days of irritability, anger, agression,

depression. I don't like to rock the boat. We do a rotation diet,

much more relaxed now, but I can't bring myself to give him 20

carrots a day.

Helen, mom to (ASD, SCD 4/04)

[Guest guest]

the carotenes in carrots seem to have a very benefical effect

> This is what is confusing me. It seems to me that the days after

our

> carrot days my son is prince charming. Last time he cleaned the

> kitchen table for me, swept the patio and even said I was looking

> cute! And not for any reward!!! I gave him the quarters for

> doing " mommy's chores " but he gave the quarters to the babysitter.

> What a sweatheart! But I didn't see that again until today.

> Yesterday was carrots day. I can't give him so many carrots every

> day due to the sugar, or carbs, or whatever I can't let build up

too

> much. But does anyone else have this with carrots or mega doses of

> vitamin A? Maybe I'm just off my rocker but I'd like to increase

> that happy, eager-to-please kind of attitude and this is the only

> correlation I could think of.

> Helen, mom to (ASD, SCD 4/04)

[Guest guest]

Helen,

Have you tried Cod Liver Oil with your child? Dr. Megson has talked about how

this has helped many of her autistic patients. It might help even more.

Vicki, mom to (ASD, SCD 4/12)

carrots and great behavior

This is what is confusing me. It seems to me that the days after our

carrot days my son is prince charming. Last time he cleaned the

kitchen table for me, swept the patio and even said I was looking

cute! And not for any reward!!! I gave him the quarters for

doing " mommy's chores " but he gave the quarters to the babysitter.

What a sweatheart! But I didn't see that again until today.

Yesterday was carrots day. I can't give him so many carrots every

day due to the sugar, or carbs, or whatever I can't let build up too

much. But does anyone else have this with carrots or mega doses of

vitamin A? Maybe I'm just off my rocker but I'd like to increase

that happy, eager-to-please kind of attitude and this is the only

correlation I could think of.

Helen, mom to (ASD, SCD 4/04)

For information on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, please read the book

_Breaking the Vicious Cycle_ by Elaine Gottschall and read the following

websites:

http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info

and

http://www.pecanbread.com