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I'm not stopping my sugar. I am already vegetarian and have been told I have lactose intolerance so my diet is restricted enough anyway. There is actually more evidence to suggest that behavioural problems/mood swings can be caused by artificial sweeteners like aspartame than sugar. God help me if I ever become a diabetic!

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I have HFA, ADHD, OCD & Tourette syndrome. I love animals, especially my bunnies and hamster. I skate in a roller derby team (but I'll try not to bite )

Well done Sylvia for coming in and giving this thread the biology it desperately needed. Though proteins being hydrolysed into glucose is news to me, seeing as they are made of amino acids.

OP- don't use preachy websites or diet books as sources, look at the science. Glucose is absolutely vital for bodily function.

Even if you don't eat any sugar, any long-chain carbohydrates you eat will be broken down into sugars. You are more likely to digest all the sugar you need if you have monosaccarides (e.g. glucose) or disaccarides (e.g. maltose) than if you have starch or glycerol though.

Once upon a time I took nutrition in college as part of pre-nursing requirements. Protein does break down into glucose but the metabolites can be hard on the body. In starvation situations, or too restricted a diet, the body will go so far as to break down muscle mass for energy requirements.

There is a lot of alarmist information out there regarding diets. Dairy is poison. Soy is poison. Sugar is poison. If you follow every bit of it all I have no idea what you end up actually eating. Very restricted diets lead to vitamin and mineral deficiencies. That will affect the body far more negatively than a bit of sugar.

The paleo diet is intriguing simply because it is a species specific diet. Humans are omnivores. I have nothing against vegetarianism other than it's too easy to neglect protein balance, and also B12 is found mostly in meat. Very low fat diets lack essential fatty acids which are definitely necessary for such things as myelin sheathes in neurons.

Check out the science carefully then make your own decisions. Or at the very least eat a good variety of real food.

Is this a bad time to mention CaPieKie and my quest to bake it, a cookie inside a pie inside a cake? Yum.

That sounds interesting, do you have a recipe? Does it involve chocolate? Yum.

I quit drinking soda yrs. ago. Also poptarts make me crazy :p

I thought it was useful to count carbs, but found that I eventually had to make up for the difference in calories in other ways. When I was on Atkins, I didn't start consuming obscene amounts of fat and protein, but just enough. For whatever reason, I felt like I had more good days.

Probiotic foods seemed to act even quicker, in getting rid of bloat and appetite swings, but I feel that products of fermentation are legitimately unusual, and even dangerous when poorly prepared. Mine didn't turn out well, on the first few tries.

I believe that sleep has a vital effect on metabolism, and vice versa. It has been a conscious struggle for me, at times, but it helps everything.

I didn't have any moral quandaries over the fake stuff, but it never quite goes down normally. I get mildly sick if I push my luck. I can't imagine that heavy consumption could possibly be healthy.

There are some lovely vegetarian pizzas with soy cheeses. Kind of odd tasting, but you might get used to it. Vegetarian diets are fine as long as you watch the protein balance and B12. Nutritional yeast is one of the few non-meat sources of B12 that I know. I hear it has a cheesy taste so maybe it would go well on pizza.

My father was in the health education industry for some time, so I know a little bit of this stuff. If you don't drink soda regularly, limit foods that are high in processed sugar to treats, and make sure you eat plenty of all the needed foods and stuff you should be fine, there is no reason to go on a diet created by fascist unless you have some actual medical problems that require a special diet, and autism isn't one of those.

WingMan, I answered you because I thought this might be a serious thing on your part. Now you're degenerating into attacks on someone who doesn't deserve it. Come on, get a grip. Maybe you need a candy bar.

It's good for getting rid of anger in smaller doses!

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I have HFA, ADHD, OCD & Tourette syndrome. I love animals, especially my bunnies and hamster. I skate in a roller derby team (but I'll try not to bite )