Nourishing Hope for Autism [Perfect Paperback]

Julie Matthews (Author), CNC (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2008

YES! Diet helps children with autism. Nourishing Hope for Autism explains WHY and HOW

Julie Matthews, widely respected autism nutritionist, provides intense research and extensive clinical nutrition experience in this comprehensive guide. Readers are given practical steps for dietary intervention and a roadmap for getting started, evolving, and customizing the varied approaches.  

Parents & Caregivers, Physicians & Nutritionists will learn the following:

* A clear understanding of why diet affects behavior, cognitive ability, symptoms.
* The scientific rationale for autism diets and supplementation.
* Positive effects of autism-specific nutrition and biochemistry and healing.
* How to choose a diet, get started, measure effectiveness, reach goals.
* Dietary options; including GFCF, SCD/GAPS, Body Ecology, Feingold, Low Oxalate, & more.
* Creative ways to help picky eaters with kid-approved strategies

Nourishing Hope for Autism is the most comprehensive and helpful guide to Autism Nutrition and Dietary Intervention. In easy to understand terms, the author explains the impact of nutrition on the biochemistry of children with autism and how special autism diets affect healing.

Readers will understand the connection between certain foods, the digestive system, and the influences on the child's brain. Parents and autism physicians around the world are using Nourishing Hope for Autism to guide their nutrition/diet focused interventions that help bring about real recovery results---improvement in cognitive ability, physical pain, digestive problems, rashes, speech, eye contact and aggression.

This book is a must have reference for autism diet success.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Julie Matthews is an internationally respected Certified Nutrition Consultant specializing in autism spectrum disorder. She is an expert in applying food, nutrition, and diet to aid digestive health and systemic healing. She has deep knowledge of biomedical approaches, sulfation, and the disordered chemistry of ASD. As an autism nutritionist, she provides sound diet and supplement intervention guidance backed by scientific research and applied clinical experience

Julie studied nutrition at California state-certified Bauman College, where she investigated the connection between chemicals in foods and children s behavior. Initially curious about ADD/ADHD, she quickly focused on autism spectrum disorders after she met a father who d recovered his children from autism through diet and nutrition. The father, a chemist, soon became a mentor to Julie and set her afire on a mission to inform and empower others. She also holds a Bachelor of Science from U.C. Davis in Agricultural and Managerial Economics. Julie is a member of the National Association of Nutrition Professionals and sits on the Scientific Advisory Board of The Autism File magazine. She has been a Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!) Practitioner since 2002. Julie is an autism nutrition educator at the leading medical autism conferences including; Defeat Autism Now (DAN!), Autism One, Autism Society of America, National Autism Association, US Autism & Asperger s Association, Autism Today, and the Mindd Foundation. She is also a presenter for Nourishing Our Children, a non-profit campaign of the Weston A. Price Foundation s San Francisco Chapter. She hosts a radio show in San Francisco, called Reality Sandwich, which addresses varied health and autism healing topics, and on Autism One Radio called Nourishing Hope. She writes for, and serves on the scientific advisory board of, the Autism File magazine, and publishes varied online newsletters/blogs. Julie is the creator of Cooking To Heal an autism nutrition and cooking class that teaches how to techniques for autism diet implementation. Julie routinely collaborates with pediatricians, family physicians, nutritionists and researchers.

Her passion is supporting parents and children from around the world during one-on-one consultations. She provides private group education for autism support groups and autism-focused education centers in the US and abroad. Julie has a private autism nutrition practice in San Francisco, California, where she resides with her husband and daughter. She can be reached at NourishingHope.com.  

Product Details

• Perfect Paperback: 236 pages
• Publisher: Healthful Living Media; 3rd edition (November 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0981655807
• ISBN-13: 978-0981655802
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #147,621 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Review from an ASD child's mom, January 19, 2009

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Kate "Kate" (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nourishing Hope for Autism (Perfect Paperback)

If you are new to the world of Autism, or new to Biomedical treatments, this is the book you need! I am mommy to 2 1/2 year old Aden, who was diagnosed in Nov. on the Autism spectrum.
We started down this road in April 08, and knew very very little about Autism. When he was officially diagnosed in Nov. the Developemental Pediatrician that we saw handed us a stack of papers to read, said "don't try any CAM treatments because they don't work", and pushed us out the door. We were left with a, hey sorry your kid is autistic and there isn't much we can do. Thankfully, we didn't listen and decided to take a different road. We got this book very soon after, and it was and continues to be a HUGE help for us in our understanding of this disorder, and a great reference gude, especially on the nutrition side of it. We've learnded so much because of it!
There IS HOPE for these kids. Because of what we have done Biomedically and with therapy and early intervention classes, Aden is well on his way to recovery! Such progress has been made already in just over a month!
THIS BOOK IS A MUST HAVE for anyone who has a child on the spectrum.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars K Genzlinger, CNC, CMTA - Holistic Food Therapist / Holistic Nutritionist, January 27, 2009

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DG - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nourishing Hope for Autism (Perfect Paperback)

As a holistic nutritionist and food therapist, I find this book to be an excellent resource and reference book. It is critical that information such as that found in Nourishing Hope is shared with parents at large (and as many healthcare professionals as would be willing to learn from it.)

Critical information grounded in research, and explained intelligently, abounds in this book. It combines science, biochemistry, logic, research, common sense, and "case study"-based information for parents, caregivers, and healthcare professionals.

Julie Matthews has put together an excellent resource for anyone who wants real information that will impact health and quality of life for those with autism.

Additionally, the nutrition and detoxification steps outlined can and should be taken to treat and ameliorate autism - AND can be used during pregnancy, nursing, and childhood to PREVENT autism from developing - a common fear among parents as the statistics rise (1 in 150 children with autism, boys 4:1 to girls).

This book will benefit anyone who has a child in their life (at all), anyone who is considering having children, anyone who has a child on the spectrum - as well as any child battling ADHD, allergies, and asthma.

Thank-you Julie Matthews for compiling this information and authoring this great work! - K. Genzlnger, CNC, CMTA - Holistic Food Therapist / Holistic Nutritionist

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars AWESOME Autism Diet Guide, December 11, 2008

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Jake's Mom "Autism Interested" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nourishing Hope for Autism (Perfect Paperback)

If you are researching biomedical autism diets---this book is it. Recommended by medical director of ARI and Spectrum Magazine. All I needed to know in one book---digestive system info, importance of the right foods, why diets help heal, how to put a diet into place, how to cook for the diet so you kids will eat. Shows symptoms of autism that improve with diet.