I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS

Today on Facebook a friend commented that she had a friend whose child had a speech delay. They put her on a gluten free diet and she is doing much better.

I thought, "Hmmm that is interesting." and did what any mom does these days- I googled it. THERE IS A CONNECTION!!! PARENTS SAY THAT THEY TALK MORE, SLEEP BETTER AND HAVE LESS ROUND TUMMIES WHEN ON A GLUTEN FREE DIET.

I AM ACTUALLY ANGRY RIGHT NOW! WHY HAVEN'T I HEARD THIS?!!!???

I'm researching like a fiend- but here is the article that caused this outrage in me (and a glimmer of hope) and I have read many a forum comment from parents who have seen a total change in their kids when they change their diets.

This is the crux of the issue,
"the new study, led by Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland scientist and pediatric emergency medicine physician, Claudia Morris, MD, and Marilyn C. Agin, MD, a neurodevelopmental pediatrician at Saint Vincent Medical Center in New York, however, suggests that the symptoms of verbal apraxia are, at least for a sub-group of children, part of a larger, multifactorial, neurologic syndrome involving food allergies/gluten-sensitivity and nutritional malabsorption.

"While it is critical to treat verbal apraxia symptoms that often include severe delays in expressive speech production with speech therapy, we need to start asking why these kids are having these problems in the first place so that we can identify mechanisms we can actually target to treat the cause of the symptoms," says Dr. Morris."

So basically their guts are annoyed and they cannot absorb nutrients (mainly fats!) and this causes the brain to starve and the result in some is a speech delay!

You know what I'll be doing next- cooking with no gluten! It is interesting I've been reading here at Comfy Belly and planning a gluten free/sugar free diet for myself. I spent last week bookmarking meals. Now I'll be using them.