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we can find a study that will connect anything with anything if we try hard enough.
It sure seems that way.
I've seen studies that say that there is a possible link between autism and the age of the father, possible links to other family members with auto-immune disorders, genetic abnormalities and so forth.
I am glad that so much research is being done, but, I wouldn't draw any definitive conclusions from one study.
Jenny McCarthy isn't obese. What caused autism in her case?
Didn't Jenny McCarthy say that now her son is "cured"?
and/or that he never had autism to begin with?
How quick we are to slap a label on children anymore. And pump them full of drugs.
Not necessarily in all autism cases, nor "all" of any cases, but often enough.
We so need to rethink how we approach disease, disorders, "syndromes," and so on in this country.
Just because obesity increases the likely hood it doesn't mean every non-obese mother will not have a autistic kid.
No, but the study is still important nonetheless, because it suggests a possible root cause or causes, such as diet, vitamins, etc etc etc.
It also suggests that other factors, such as Phatbody Diabetes (Diabetes Type II) and hypertension can have an affect, perhaps by interfering with hormones necessary for development.
Funny how there was a time just 50 years ago when, um, "health insurance" didn't even cover child-birth or pregnancy, and yet the child mortality rate was lower, and the incidence of many diseases and conditions that are prevalent now did not exist.
Statistically...
Obese women are more likely to have birth problems and caesarians, another factor linked to autism. Older mothers also tend to be overweight. In either case, I believe the obesity link is one step removed from the actual environmental cause.
More person anecdotes, I give up. You guys really need to learn what statistics means.
Perhaps you need to learn that anecdotal evidence IS evidence. When a million folks do the same exact thing and get the same exact result, it then becomes glaringly likely that we have something to seriously consider.
I say this because vaccines are indeed a likely culprit.
Let me spell this out for everybody. Fat people, both male and female, have more health problems, shorter life spans and unhealthier children. This can affect children before and after they are born in more ways you can think of. Eat right and exercise and try not to be fat. There. Now we don't have to waste any more money doing studies to try to find every possible way that being fat affects human being in a negative way.
Let me spell this out for everybody. Fat people, both male and female, have more health problems, shorter life spans and unhealthier children. This can affect children before and after they are born in more ways you can think of. Eat right and exercise and try not to be fat. There. Now we don't have to waste any more money doing studies to try to find every possible way that being fat affects human being in a negative way.
Yeah! and after fixing the fat problem we then can see that we did not fix this Autism tragedy. Fat may or may not play a role. The barrage of shots dang sure does.
we can find a study that will connect anything with anything if we try hard enough.
This just in: coffee drinking linked to autism.
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