From 1952 to 1960, there seemed to be no answers to the series of health problems facing our child: periods of severe diarrhea, severe constipation, spontaneous nosebleeds, night- time seizures, failure to thrive, and finally the diagnosis of ul- cerative colitis. The years of treatment with prednisone and sulfonamides, plus innumerable other medical approaches, had been unsuccessful and surgery seemed imminent. …And then, it happened! …Ninety-two year old Dr. [Sidney Valentine] Haas placed our child on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet and within days, the neurological symptoms ceased, never to return, the colitis symptoms were completely resolved within one year. The child began to thrive leaving all the previous problems behind and making up for lost time. How could a simple diet cure an “incurable disease?”
E. Gottschall/Medical Veritas 1 (2004) 261–271 261 Digestion-gut-autism connection: the Specific Carbohydrate Diet Website: www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info