Fact or fiction?

[dadmisseskids]

http://www.alternativementalhealth.com/ ... ergies.htm

Would you guys say this information is valid?

[Fatheroffour]

Blue font suggest fiction.

As well as 'alternative' in the title.

Personally, I'm too much of a skeptic. I'd need better sources.

[jamessick]

Why not? With all the strange things our bodies do. The weight of testing on children, even though the docs didn't apparently narrow it down much, the diets they tried caused a lot of changes in the children they were testing as far as behavioral modification.

[defaultuser]

I don't think you can trust something unless there have been multiple published studies done on it. Unfortunately, drug companies make too much money (many billions per year) on psychoactive drugs prescribed to minors (and adults) to care much about funding studies that make their medicine worthless.

There are some interesting studies done on diet that were conducted properly that show very strong correlations between milk protein and cancer, for example. Check out the movie, forks over knives. I started eating the way they recommend and have seen a noticeable improvement in my mood.

Best think is to just try it out and keep a journal of what you eat and any noticeable effects. Do something like this: Get two jars, label one "Good day" and one "Bad day". If your subject has a good day, put a bean in the good day jar. If he has a bad day, put one in the bad day jar. That is your control. Then change the diet and start doing it again a week after that and follow through for a month or so and you'll see if there are marked differences.

Nothing wrong with finding out what works good for you.

[Trevor]

I agree that individualized diet attention is where it's at. The studies in the linked page may have been done carefully but they were very small ones. Not sure how far off being statistically valid samples, meaning compared to, say, the population of kids who get frequent migraines. My niece has food allergies and they did the needle testing as well as the rice-only thing where you slowly introduce foods to figure out the allergens.

[MovingOnWI]

My favorite statement on alternative medicine:

http://i.imgur.com/tdrBr.png

[Fatheroffour]

Anyone else listen to The Skeptics Guide to the Universe?

[Trevor]

My favorite statement on alternative medicine:

Nice.