RE: Re: grapefruit seed extract & antidepressants???/Picky eaters

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To those of you with picky eaters:

I just wanted to write and say there is hope. There really is. For almost 2

years, my daughter had a list of about 10 foods she would eat. Fortunately

for us they were more or less healthy foods b/c she had never tasted “junk”

when she began to eliminate foods at around the age of 15 months so the

things she still agreed to eat were familiar things.

I remember initially trying GFCF b/c I had heard from so many moms that

their kids became less picky on the diet. It wasn’t true for us. I

remember thinking enzymes would make her less picky. They did other great

things but did not touch the pickiness. When we began to see Dr. Cave I

remember telling her that the picky eating was really the only behavior we

struggled with day to day.

I cant honestly say it was one single thing that did it for us but just

short of a year of “full” supplementation based on a full battery of tests

(supplements meaning everything from Brainchild to carnitine and custom

amino acid blend and fatty acids and a whole host of other things), I could

just tell that the residual problem was based on habit. I think for so many

of these kids a metabolic imbalance is driving the problem and if the

imbalances are addressed, things change. For example I am not sure my

daughter would have done well eating meat without the carnitine.

But once I realized it was habit holding us back (again – after all the

supplementation had taken effect) I told her we were going to do it together

and that with every new food she could sit on my lap and I would even feed

it to her if she wanted and we would make a list of all the new foods she

tried. It was clear that she was “better” by then b/c the whole concept of

the list excited her and she was scared but willing to try. She gagged a

littleon some of them more b/c it had been so long since she had tried

certain textures that her mouth really didn’t know what to do with them.

That quickly passed as she got used to things. Within 4 weeks she had tried

about 90 new items and many of them became part of her regular repertoire.

I literally cried.

Tonight my family sat down to a meal together and my (4 yrs old this past

Thursday) daughter happily ate: lamb, zucchini sautéed in olive oil and with

specks of fresh dill on them, 2 uncooked baby carrots, and a baked potato

(plain) followed by a special dessert of Rice Dream vanilla “ice” cream

w/sprinkles. This is a kid who ate nothing but (rice, corn, wheat – it

didn’t matter) pasta for dinner for almost 2 years and who would have been

just as upset/resistant to the thought of eating ice cream as she was at the

thought of taking vitamins.

Re: grapefruit seed extract & antidepressants???

No, I'm not thinking horrid nutrition, I'm thinking my grandson is also a

champion picky

eater due not only to ASD but to results of torticollis and gag response and

oral

hyposensitivity...everything has to be crunchy. Legge has a new book

out that will

at least make you feel less alone. " Can't eat, Won't Eat. " Ben won't eat

pizza or Burger King

chicken nuggets or gluten free chicken nuggets. The ONLY meat he will eat is

plain

hamburger, served on a fork like a lollipop. He won't eat cheese, tomato

sauce, spinach or

ANY kind of pasta. He doesn't only have a fit if asked to try a new food,

usually he will

gag. Amazingly, he asked to try a sauteed mushroom at dinner today and then

said, " Um,

tasty... " and carried it over to his father to eat. Obviously he hated it.

He will eat Ore-Ida

Fast Food French Fries, baked at home.

So he is going to carry his lunch to school and if they have a hard time

with his gluten-free

cracker sandwiches maybe with soy- or peanut butter, possibly with water and

Fritoes, too

bad for them. He won't eat fruit, milk is bad for him, he can eat

gluten-free pretzels and

likes them. Actually, everybody thinks this is a terrible diet but we're

looking at some

family traits--test results-- that might indicate fatty acid oxidation

disorders so he might

actually be eating, and refusing, what is best for him. (In that case, a

high-carb diet is

called for.) Personally, I would rather give this kid Sprite than milk,

seeing what it does to

him.

Now if you want a look on the lighter side, when he went to Communion this

morning it

was the first time he actually drank a sip out of the silver chalice--I

think his visual/

vestibular gluten symptoms before made him dizzy even looking at it. He used

to scream

when it was offered, then got to just leaving the rail early. He said,

" Mmm, good coffee--

tastes good. " LOL...hope nobody thinks this is irreverent. I think it just

is innocence.

Peace,

Kathy E.

Yes, GSE can interfere with SSRI

medication, usually

only if the Phase

> I liver metabolism is already slow. If the Phase I is normal or fast,

> then usually GSE is okay with SSRI, but if it is slow, then GSE can

> interfere with the metabolism rate of the SSRI.

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> Dana

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