Special Diets for Special Kids: Updated Gluten-Free, Casein-Free Recipes You'll Love

"Praised as a modern-day classic by celebrities and readers all over the world, the first edition of Special Diets for Special Kids has been helping children and adults with autism, ADHD, celiac disease, and other disorders since 1998. This 25th anniversary edition includes new cooking techniques (think Instant Pot), new recipes, and new research. Lisa Lewis' short anecdotes at the beginning of many of the recipes make for entertaining reading. Lewis' son has autism and has been on a GFCF diet for many years. The author has a talent for explaining the scientific basis of digestive and absorptive problems in autistic children in ways that are easy for overwhelmed parents to understand. The first part of the book describes dietary intervention in detail, explaining the scientific rationale for special diets in understandable language. In a nutshell, certain enzymes are required to break down gluten and casein. If those enzymes don't function well, or are not present at sufficient levels, serious neurological problems can result. Studies have shown that children with autism have a marked deficiency of these enzymes, which may explain why GFCF diets have yielded positive results for many children. The second part of the contains more than 200 easy-to-follow recipes, including many you never thought possible on a GFCF diet"--