Diet Therapy

What is nutrition?

• Food a person usually eats

• Quality of the food our body needs

• Healthy foods we eat daily

What is Diet?

• Food a person habitually eats

• Quality of the food our body needs

• Restrict eating or fasting

Nutrition & Diet Therapy is a meal plan that controls the intake of certain foods or nutrients as a part of treatment for a medical condition

• True

• False

Select the correct reasons that requires diet therapy prescription (can choose more than 1)

• Food allergies or intolerance

• Problems with swallowing or chewing

• weight gain or weight control

• control diabetes

• restore balanced nutritional status

Select example of common dietary therapy for ASD

(can choose more than 1)

• Gluten-free casein-free diet

• ketogenic diet

• specific carbohydrates diet

• low oxalate diet

Choose possible contributors for eating issues in ASD (can choose more than 1)

• gastrointestinal difficulties

• sensory processing issues

• challenging behaviour

• comorbidity with other disabilities

• food presentation not interesting

Diet and Nutrition Therapy is one of the types of biomedical intervention

• True

• False

Medication can treat core symptoms of ASD

• True

• False

Medication helps to alleviate symptoms of comorbidity disorders in ASD

• True

• False

Choose examples of comorbid disorders in children & adolescents with ASD (can choose more than 1)

• epilepsy

• ADHD

• anxiety

• laziness

• obsessive-compulsive disorder