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Gluten Free Restaurants links
Dear Parents,
Dealing with Autism can be very confusing. We are now currently in the process of using a diet that is very difficult to put into our every day lives. For beginning parents on learning how to deal with a kid with Autism, I have started a page on helpful tips for starting a GFCF Diet which is other wise known as Gluten and Casein Free diet. It has helped us tremendously. To get to this information faster click here or scroll down. to the bottom of the page.
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Restaurants Gluten Free Menus
This is a list of Food Dinner Menu's that list Gluten free menus on the internet.
These are not also necessarily casein free.
Claim Jumper http://www.claimjumper.com/hypertext/menu_diet_gluten.htm
Carrabbas http://www.carrabbas.com/menu.asp
WildFire Restaurant http://www.wildfirerestaurant.com/second_level/menu/celiac.htm
The Old Spaghetti Factory
Chili's http://www.chilis.com/menu/default.asp Click on allergen information down on the right hand side
Outback Steak House http://www.outbacksteakhouse.com.au/menu/index.html
Here is a nice list of many others http://www.venturaceliac.org/restaurants.htm#r
March 2008 News about a court case with autism
Yeast overgrowth in your body leads to weight gain and fatigue
Hyperbaric Oxygen Chambers in Fresno California
Another Letter of the GFCF diet
Why Kids with autism need cysteine and glutathione supplements
Gluten? Why Eliminate it From the Diet?
Glutens are proteins found in the Plant Kingdom
Casein is a phosphoprotein of milk they cause hypertension in the body and can make kids hyper
We recently added Oatmeal to our list of okay foods to eat. A doctor discovered Oats is not part of a gluten diet and a gluten free diet is still working for us.
http://nh.essortment.com/allergiesoatmea_raby.htm
What is Autism?
http://www.aafp.org/afp/20021101/1680ph.html
Can Vaccines Containing Thimerosal Cause Autism? - April 15, 2004 - American Family Physician
Other disorders that are related to a gluten and casein allergies:
Gluten-Sensitive Enteropathy (Celiac Disease): More Common Than You Think
http://www.aafp.org/afp/20021215/2259.html
A great link to learn more about his diet and why kids that have autism should be put on a gluten and casein free diet.
http://members.aol.com/lisas156/gfpak.htm
Another good source of information is:
http://laurynhb.tripod.com/dietinfo.html
Tips to take to the store with you. You can print out the page on the link below and fold in half and have it laminated for easy access of what is okay to buy and what is not. The list will constantly be changing and I will continue adding to it as we learn of new foods we can add to our list.
Shopping List of Do's and Dont's
Flour Alternatives
http://www.specialfoods.com/flours.html
Cook Books that are good to have:
Bette Hagman's More From the Gluten Free Gourmet
recipes made for bread machines
No-Gluten Children 's Cookbook by Pat Cassidy
FREE RECIPES LINKS for cooking: Read all the ingredients - not guaranteed to be all gluten and casein free
recipes:
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~kupstas/FAQ_recipes.html
http://vegweb.com/index.php?action=search2
http://www.gfcfdiet.com/recipes.htm
http://glutencaseinfree.tripod.com/gfcfdiet/id10.html
http://www.scdiet.org/2recipes/
Check the recipes to make sure they don't have any white flour and substitute accordingly
Online Stores for gluten and casein free
http://www.glutensolutions.com/
Other links about Autism:
http://eric21.freeservers.com/treatments.htm
http://www.autism-society.org/site/PageServer
http://www.dds.ca.gov/autism/autism_main.cfm
The above link can get you involved in a Regional Center near you if you are having problems in school. They can provide an advocate and other resources to fighting for your child's rights in the public education programs.
If there are links that don't work please email me hollysnails1@yahoo.com
Some of these links were provided through a very helpful website about Autism:
http://www.autism.byethost.com/treatments.html
BuckWheat Gluten Free - Check it out http://www.enabling.org/ia/celiac/ada.html
This information was collected through the internet and may or may not be 100% safe. When in doubt, email the Manufacturer for a response to questions about products weather they are gluten and casein free.