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NUTRITION SESSION - SATURDAY APRIL 28TH

7:30-8:30		Registration, Exhibit Viewing, Hosted Coffee, Cash Breakfast
8:30-9:30		Keynote: The Autism Revolution
		After years of treating patients and analyzing scientific data, prominent Harvard researcher and clinician Dr. Martha Herbert offers a revolutionary new view of autism and a transformative strategy for dealing with it. Autism is not a hardwired impairment programmed into a child's genes and destined to remain fixed forever, as we're often told. Instead, it is the result of a cascade of events, many seemingly minor: perhaps a genetic mutation, some toxic exposures, a stressful birth, a vitamin deficiency, and a series of infections. And while other doctors may dismiss your child's physical symptoms—the diarrhea, anxiety, sensory overload, sleeplessness, immune challenges, and seizures—as coincidental or irrelevant, Dr. Herbert sees them as vital clues to what the underlying problems are, and how to help.
		SPEAKER  Martha Herbert, MD, PhD
9:40-10:40		Diet Overview, Tips, and Tricks
		Details to be announced
		SPEAKER  Tom Malterre, MS, CN
10:40-11:00		Morning Break & Exhbit Viewing
11:00-Noon		The Wisdom of Eating Traditional Foods
		Since the beginning of human existence people have passed knowledge about food, cultivation, and cooking methods down through generation after generation. Ancient wisdom enhanced mineral and nutrient bioavailability. Food and medicine were interwoven. Since the industrial revolution all of this has changed, so that now what most of us consider to be food would be unrecognizable to George Washington or Thomas Jefferson. In traditional cultures, balancing health with lifestyle was a core belief. The diseases of modern civilization were rare.
		SPEAKER  Liz Lipski, PhD, CCN, CHN
Noon-1:00		Cash Lunch and Exhibit Viewing
1:00-2:00		Basic Autism Elimination Diets
		Greater than seventy percent of children with ASD respond to one or more of the diets. This segment will focus on the GFCFSF diet including: what it is, why it works and how to do it. The scientific basis for the diet will be presented along with a discussion of which individuals are the most likely responders, step-by-step recommendations, and helpful tips for success.
		SPEAKER  Dana Laake, RDH, MS, LDN
2:00-3:00		Gastrointestinal Pathology and the Use of the SCD and the GAPS protocol in ASD
		More information coming soon.
		SPEAKERS  Pam Ferro, RN, ASN
3:00-3:30		Afternoon Break
3:30-4:30		Special Diets and Autistic Spectrum Disorders
		SPEAKER  Vicki Kobliner, MS RD
4:30-5:30		Diet Panel with Samples
		SPEAKERS  Vicki Kobliner, MS, RD; Kelly Barnhill, MBA, CN, CCN; Pamela Ferro, RN; Dana Laake, RDH, MS, LDN; Liz Lipski, Ph.D, CCN, CHN; and Tom Malterre