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Sherry–whey

23 Feb, 2007 Foods

All milk proteins have to be avoided because all milk protiens containcasein in some form.

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Allen Lawrentz said,

Wrote on February 24, 2007 @ 11:00 pm

All milk proteins do not contain casein - - casein is simply a milkprotein itself. Casein proteins comprise 80% of the proteins in milk,and whey, which is a separate group of milk proteins, comprises theremaining 20%. In fact, whey proteins cannot contain casein proteinsby their very definition: once you remove the casein proteins frommilk, the remaining proteins are by definition the whey proteins (inother words, whey proteins are those milk proteins that do not fallinto the casein category).

I’m curious if whey is to be avoided for a casein-free diet. If so, Idon’t see how the reason can be that whey contains casein. The onlyreason I can think of (that someone has mentioned thus far) is that theprocess of extracting whey protein from cow’s milk can not be reliedupon to have removed 100% of the casein protein. Is this the answer?

Sorry to be so beligerent (and analytical) about this, but there are somany things about this diet that are unclear, and I’m just trying toget to the bottom of one of them, perhaps by drawing on the knowledgebase in this group. Another example of something misunderstood withthe diet is soy milk. Karyn Seroussi and Lisa Lewis suggest soy milkas a possible alternative to cow’s milk (although they say you’rebetter off using rice milk, but they don’t rule out soy), but thetacanow.com site says that soy milk is not to be used, as it is sosimilar to cow’s milk. Who is right? And why?

The answer to the whey question is likely going to be: “try it foryourself and decide - - every child is different.” If so, that’s okay,but it would be nice to figure out if there is something intrinsicabout whey that makes it similar to casein insofar as it’s effect onthe central nervous system (and thus autistic behavior).
Wesley Marske said,

Wrote on February 26, 2007 @ 6:10 am

Unfortunately we are not doctors or scientists, just parentsdesperate to help our kids. The reason that this diet is ‘poo-pood’ by many inthe medical field is that no specific set of ‘all incompassing rules’ apply toEVERY autistic child. At least that is my take on it. I just read one ofDana’s answers to the whey question and some kids are OK with it. I am notwilling to try. That is my choice.

As far as Soy goes, in Dr. MacCandles’ book “Children with Starving Brains”she says that soy is chemacly (sorry my spelling is really off today) similar tomilk. Many, many autistic children also have a problem with soy. Therefore,she recommends not using soy either. I have not had a problem with soy for myson, so I do use it. Some children also have a problem with corn. Thedifferences in intolerances are as varied as the spectrum itself.