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Nutritional Therapy 101
Story of Adara's Growth Process with food
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It's time for change! Our children are a cry from the universe to change, grow and become aware of the effect that our diets have on our lives. Once I started to change Adara's diet it became obvious that this was one part of what was affecting her ability to function. In her early years, she would just throw her food including the plate on the floor finally she has gotten over that. Now she knows when I am all done I just leave my plate on the table. But she was doing this up until she was almost four. All she wanted to do was eat anything crunchy. She would eat carrots, celery,crackers, cereal, chips, maybe apples. She would also eat rice, pasta and ice cream and sometimes her meat she might take a bite of it, But anything else it would be hard to even get her to try it. She did eat fruits and vegetables such as strawberries and broccoli before she developed the "Autism." As soon as I removed gluten from her diet, it was as if a key had unlocked the door to her awareness of eating and she actually started to like different flavours. She was eating strawberries again. After 3 months of gluten free, speech and language and music therapy especially music therapy that unlocked another door. She was starting to use sign language " All done" in Adara's way and saying HI and BYE. It was all very miraculous to me anyway, I honestly felt like I hit the jackpot. BINGO!
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My Story of Nutritional Awakening
If you are anything like how I was, eating all of the wrong things, such as, loving anything ice cream, chocolate feen, frozen processed foods, dairy lover, stocking up on bread and crackers, uhh rice crispies snacks and granola bars a must in my house. Really the list of processed foods can go on....... JUNK, JUNK, JUNK. This is when I say you need Nutritional Therapy just as my daughter needs Speech and Language Therapy that how I needed Nutrition Therapy. Learning about food and how to cook your own foods is therapy especially when we are all just learning how to get away from the foods that are not good for your body and finding the right ones that are healthy. Honestly, I just stopped going in all the aisles unless necessary.Now I only go produce, Meat and Organic section. Sometimes my cooking is good and other days it's bad trying to get it right. I swear this I live by as I have been testing so many recipes has been therapeutic and has taught me so much about the food I eat, how to keep it balanced, making sure I am rotating and not eating the same old stuff so that I can stay excited about what I get to cook and eat every day. Also not to mention what my spouse and kids get to eat and that they are enjoying their food as well. So really take the time to be easy on yourself and understand that we are all going through a huge form of therapy all by ourselves in which I believe is self-help Nutritional therapy. The Nutrition Spectrum has now become a big deal to many and it's great to see that more people are now conscious of what they eat and how they prepare foods from scratch. No more store bought stuff you just throw on or in the stove that requires no work. Honestly, where is the fun in that anyways, I know not everyone is here to become a chef or be some nutritional guru but we all need to take some responsibility for our bodies in keeping them supple and balanced so that we can all live our best life. Not our worst life of feeling bloated and unhappy. That was me at one point until I started to realize what it was that I had done and was still doing to my body. It actually started with the research that I had started doing for my daughter's Autism which opened me up to so many ideas and helped to put things in perspective about what our food is doing to our bodies and what it was doing to my daughter's body. Breaking the body down and damaging her brain. Clearly it has done the same to my body as I had a big bloated belly that wouldn't go away. Once I read all the information on gluten, dairy, and yeast I began to implement a gluten-free diet right away so I wasn't taking everything from my children and completely shocking them or their systems. It was really easy and 3 months later I felt different and observed results in my daughter's awareness. I then incorporated some music therapy towards the end of the third month on the gluten free diet and she began talking saying hi and bye, signing all done and more. And actually trying to say the words for the signs as well. So I really did see so much change in just taking away the gluten and once I started working with Dr. Gannage who is a DAN's doctor that had me take other allergens out of my daughter' diet. I began to see even more awareness and the change I was hoping for the past year to happen.
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Rice Crispies
Gluten Free, Dairy Free
1/2 cup Raw or unpasterized honey
1/2 cup Organic tahini or sunflower seed butter
1/4 tsp Grey sea salt
1 tsp Cinnamon
1 tsp Organic vanilla extract
1 tbsp ground flax
4 cups brown rice crispies
Directions: In medium saucepan melt tahini and honey together, as you are doing this add salt, cinnamon, flax and vanilla extract. Once starts bubbling remove from burner than add 4 cups rice crispies and mix to combine. You can also add 1/4 cup raw sunflower seeds for added protein. When adding the sunflower seeds you want to toast them for a couple minutes at the beginning then add wet ingredients to them.
In a nine inch rectangular dish pour mixture and flatten. To set place in freezer for 10-15 mins. Cut up in squares, put in a container and keep refridgerated.
Source: How to live without the Nine Biggest Food Problems Affordably and Conveniently Written By Rose Marie Randall C.N.P.
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Changing Diets is Changing Lives
"The Nutritional aspect of the Autism process is healing on the physical plane of the organic sustenance of the human body, that's what needs to be repaired. This is the area I believe to be the root of the problem where our child developed this disorder called "Autism."
Regardless of the outcome once you have done all you can to repair your child's body it is still important to take this crucial step helping these children get healthy and always having a proper diet that will help them florish instead of always being malnourished by the foods that are packed with preservatives, hormones, antibiotics, binders and so forth. The list can really go on. These foods are always leaving our children wanting more and more of these unconscious foods.