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Can a healthy diet help autistic children to thrive?

Can a healthy diet help autistic children to thrive?

It’s early days but researchers are hopeful that what children eat could be a key factor in easing some symptoms of the condition.

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Could autism traits really be reversed through a targeted dietary and supplementation regime, combined with behavioural and speech therapy?

That’s the claim being made in a provocative paper published by Dr Heather Tallman Ruhm, a doctor and physician, and a group of scientists from the University of Maryland.

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