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I think everything that has happened in the last 20 years (increase in DM, cancer, obesity, etc) goes back to the food. There is something wrong with the food.
They have shown that genetic information can be switched on and off by things we ingest.
Why are you so quick to dismiss the better diagnosis hypothesis? In 1960, guess how many people were diagnosed as ADHD? Zero. Does that mean that before the very recent past people didn't have trouble concentrating? Of course not... something may be causing autism, or it may just be that we're now giving a medical label to the extremely socially awkward.
Exactly! In the past, kids with Asperger's Syndrome (a form of autism) were simply the obnoxious kid in the room with delusions of superiority who were prone to being bullied. Now they are being diagnosed as autistic.
They are still trying to push that "better diagnosis" route, but I think that most people believe by now that something is causing autism, and it's something that some powerful interest doesn't want let out of the bag. My three top culprits are:
Vaccines
Food
Pollution
The FDA keeps denying any link between any of those things and autism, even though vaccines have a very clear correlations with autism. So when is the public going to put pressure on the FDA to man up and actually investigate the cause of autism instead of explaining it away? My guess is the same time the worthless FDA bans the policy of rotating the Pharma CEOs through the head FDA positions. In other words, never.
My culprit guesses with regard to the parents are:
1. Seafood (anything eaten that comes out of the water)
2. The older age of the mother
3. Marijuana use by one or both parents sometime in their life
4. Aspartame and/or other sugar substitutes people don't even know is in their beverages and food
5. Some vitamin given to pregnant women that wasn't given to them 40 years ago
6. Some common home chemical (like dishwashing detergent)
7. flu shots
I read a similar article a few days ago and the study suggests that "better diagnosis" is no longer the issue. They have accounted for that in their results. It really is sort of scary. I have read all the vaccine stuff and while that seems obvious in some cases, mainly because the noticeable onset often coincides with a vaccine (kids are ALWAYS getting them), there are kids who are not vax'ed that are getting it.
I read something last year that stated they were finding a correlation between mothers who had taken SSRIs and autism rates but I never saw anything more on that. That's piqued my interest because so many women are prescribed these meds unneccesarily and it often starts in their teen years. Doctors are very irresponsible, IMO, with those meds.
I read a similar article a few days ago and the study suggests that "better diagnosis" is no longer the issue. They have accounted for that in their results. It really is sort of scary. I have read all the vaccine stuff and while that seems obvious in some cases, mainly because the noticeable onset often coincides with a vaccine (kids are ALWAYS getting them), there are kids who are not vax'ed that are getting it.
I read something last year that stated they were finding a correlation between mothers who had taken SSRIs and autism rates but I never saw anything more on that. That's piqued my interest because so many women are prescribed these meds unneccesarily and it often starts in their teen years. Doctors are very irresponsible, IMO, with those meds.
I agree that it is very scary especially when the easy out is "better diagnosis" and then it's dismissed and accepted by the masses.
It's even scarier that the number of students in special education in the schools has risen dramatically in the past several years. They attribute that increase to "better identification" of special ed students.
I think the better diagnosis idea holds a lot of weight.
Completely anecdotally - my mom worked as a teacher in a school for kids with behavioral disorders (which unfortunately then meant a lot of foster kids, kids who were abused, etc etc who needed therapy and real help, not an alternative school). They would only call a child autistic if he or she was a savant - the idea of the spectrum was not adopted yet. Looking back, she says that many of the kids were on the spectrum but just never diagnosed as such. That's why you get so many adults who are just now realizing that they have Aspergers - they were functional so their quirks were treated as controllable problems (which is why they got bullied, treated differently by teachers, etc).
Beyond that, I can't say that I understand the science behind why so many kids are getting autism.
Autistic children were only diagnosed in the most severe cases in the past, now we are seeing children who may have a slight level of autism. Many of these children would have never been diagnosed in the past.
My culprit guesses with regard to the parents are:
1. Seafood (anything eaten that comes out of the water)
2. The older age of the mother
3. Marijuana use by one or both parents sometime in their life
4. Aspartame and/or other sugar substitutes people don't even know is in their beverages and food
5. Some vitamin given to pregnant women that wasn't given to them 40 years ago
6. Some common home chemical (like dishwashing detergent)
7. flu shots
global warming.
You forgot global warming.
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