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Posted on 04/09/2012 1:17:00 PM PDT by neverdem
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These statistical studies may or may not imply causation.
Let’s postulate that obesity is a marker for lower-class women. There might be many other factors in lower-class households that would also leave to autism. Poor nutrition, excess TV watching, lack of parental attention, etc.
This isn’t going to be well received.
Much of the recent “autism” is a welfare scam designed to circumvent the five year welfare limit and the end of “cash-for-kids” (by which additional children translate into additional cash). Autism itself is a very real illness; the “autism spectrum” BS is riddled with fraud. I’ve been around children with the alledged condition, and they act like any “only child” who has parents who won’t discipline them. They are very “normal”, and I suspect their parents are fraudsters.
When I heard on the radio that nearly 1 in 50 boys born today has “autism, or is on the autism spectrum” I knew I was vindicated in my skepticism.
Perhaps, but my son is severely dyslexic and has suffered from language based developmental delays that are so extreme that he didn't even talk until he was about five years old. His mother (my ex), was not by any measure obese, but she did have gestational diabetes that required hospitalization. She is also very bright with near perfect SATs, and BS, MS, and MBA degrees.
Oh, no! Is everything caused by fat folks? How about sun spots? I have news for these people; the way doctors browbeat pregnant women into dieting, what if it is the restricted caloric intake that causes problems? I saw a study recently that said if women are dieting during the time they conceive, their offspring will be more likely to be obese and develop diabetes in the future. The body interprets dieting as starvation and it doesn’t take to it kindly.
Man, I guess the worst crime one can commit in the 21st century is to be overweight by society’s standards. People would rather be with a slim serial killer than a chubby nice person.
If they want to get serious about this type of study, then they need to look at actual body fat percentage, not BMI.
IMO, BMI is overrated and over-used and will go away in the future.
A ratio of 1.5 to one doesn’t begin to explain whatever has been going on with autism over the past half century or so, autism existed in 1960 but it was hellishly rare.
Now they're blaming "mother too often in the refrigerator"
Plus ca change....
Well yes many things are.
Coronary heart disease Type 2 diabetes Cancers (endometrial, breast, and colon) Hypertension (high blood pressure) Dyslipidemia (for example, high total cholesterol or high levels of triglycerides) Stroke Liver and Gallbladder disease Sleep apnea and respiratory problems Osteoarthritis (a degeneration of cartilage and its underlying bone within a joint) Gynecological problems (abnormal menses, infertility) Knee and joint problems Gastric reflux, many forms of psoriasis
But you don’t understand statistical risk.
A statistical correlation does NOT mean a one-to-one correspondence.
Know what I mean?
I’m dubious of your conclusion. Do you have any expertise in the field?
Once again I’m trying to let people know that most cases of autism are actually lyme disease. Lyme can be passed down from mother to baby. And guess what a big symptom of lyme is.......weight gain!!
So to the scientists, maybe the same bacteria that causes weight gain in the mother also causes the autism symptoms in the baby.
I don’t understand why all the new research showing 90% of kids with autism tested postive with the lyme bacteria isn’t being given wide publicity.
Many children’s symptoms improved dramatically after starting antibiotics. Lyme disease and autism have the same symptoms.
I think obesity is more likely to be a precursor or indicator for diabetes more than social class.
My SIL is an MD, not obese (actually tall and slender) but she had gestational diabetes with her first child and he is autistic.
That is what I thought too, I read several paragraphs and thought, "did she take into account that all the kids had vaccinations?"
I know they came out and said vaccinations were not in mercury and were safe but still, we didn't have these problems at this level back when I was a kid.
Misdiagnoses? fraud? that might explain alot, but not all.
“Do you have any expertise in the field?”
Nope, just my lying eyes; any “expert” in these field that believes nearly 1 in 50 male children born today are on the “autism spectrum” is part of the scam, and any lay person that believes it is directly linked to a scamming recipient. Society has to come to terms with the fact that numerous children are raised watching 5+ hours of television daily (”ADD” is the result of children having attention spans the length of a television commercial...literally); false/fabricated illnesses help non-parents dispel their guilt, and make some money at the same time (they receive Social Security for the “afflicted”, with no 5 year limit or even real proof of illness).
“Lyme disease and autism have the same symptoms.”
I hadn’t heard that before; I think Lyme disease is more nerve-related in terms of joints, while autism is directly linked to the brain end of the nervous system. There is overlap, but I don’t think the symptoms are very similar.
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