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http://www.wbur.org/npr/150250294/study-warns-of-autism-risk-for-children-of-obese-mothersScientists have found one more reason that pregnancy and obesity can be a bad combination.
A new study in the journal Pediatrics suggests that moms who are obese or have diabetes are more likely to have a child with autism or another developmental problem.
The finding is "worrisome in light of this rather striking epidemic of obesity" in the U.S., says Irva Hertz-Picciotto from the MIND Institute at the University of California, Davis, one of the study's authors.
But it's not clear whether there's any connection between rising obesity rates and the increasing number of children diagnosed with autism, she says.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Hope they can do more investigation into this.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)I cannot say that their Moms were obese. One woman with 2 autstic boys was in fact was only about 100 lbs., and a Gulf War Vet. She blamed all the vaccines she had to take before shipping off there. Her husband was also a Gulf War Vet. Who knows if that (both of them) had an effect?
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)House and Senate committee during the mid-nineties, only a few of the many parents who had come with their autistic kids to testify were obese.
But until research is no longer sponsored by for Profit Big Pharma corporations, we will continue to hear how every other thing out there is a cause except the very products that are causing the autism.
The pro-vaccine crowd does not understand that the clinical trials done before the release of a vaccine last less than three months, and in some cases only six weeks. This is very deficient tsting, on the part of the industry.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)that they had to take far more vaccines going into a war zone in Iraq than the average American child gets. I don't know. Just repeating what she used to say.
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Between 26 and 31 injections before they are two years old. That is a lot of adjuvants like formaldehyde for an infant or toddler to deal with. And a lot of potential risk because people who have gone in and investigated the vaccine labs report on how much contaminating bacteria and viral material are in those labs. And it is going into the bodies of kids that don't weigh more than 25 pounds.
My girl friend's one granddaughter was going to be court martialed for refusing to allow the Army to shoot her up with all the vaccines they required of service people back during Iraq I. What saved her from being court martialed was that she was found to be pregnant so she ended up with a dishonorable discharge.
The poor veterans who served during Iraq I have gotten ill in huge percentages. I quit following the story about five years ago - but even back then there were reports that about 240,000 veterans from Iraq I who claimed to have suffered in some way from their exposure to Depleted Uranium, the vaccine material, and the aerosialized crap that was in the air on account of the oil refinery fires.
canoeist52
(2,282 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Some researchers have noted an inverse relationship between the incidence of Autism and Schizophrenia.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)The obesity problem in the US may be much worse than previously thought, according to researchers.
They said using the Body Mass Index or BMI to determine obesity was underestimating the issue.
Their study, published in the journal PLoS One, said up to 39% of people who were not currently classified as obese actually were.
The authors said "we may be much further behind than we thought" in tackling obesity.
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Very agencies which supposedly exist for consumer protection now allow for the fungal and bacterial contaminated GM crops to proliferate - because the Mike Taylors of the world get to pronounce things safe, through their very pronouncement, and without any testing, well, what can you expect?
People's bodies simply cannot tolerate the high corn syrup that is in everything. The MSG thrown into the mix. Add to those items the fact that fusarium and vomitoxin levels of corn grown using the GM/RoundUp techniques are much higher than in the conventional corn, and you get fat Americans.
Lex
(34,108 posts)would be born to an obese woman is going to increase anyway.
Those 2 things are rising in the population, but not necessarily a causal link. Maybe there is a 3rd thing triggering both?