Comments on: High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Obesity, and Autism

By: Frosty

Frosty — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 03:51:08 +0000

Actually, USA gov. Has acknowledged the link between mercury & autism so do your home work & stop being a jackass. Out of court settlement say whatt. mercury binds to receptor sites & doesnt leave & you think theirs “no link”? n00b.

By: Alicia, Celebrity Psychings

Alicia, Celebrity Psychings — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:58:10 +0000

There is indeed a lot of gray regarding autism. I haven't done enough reading about all the possible autism causes out there to really form an opinion (one that I'd stand by, anyway), but I do think it's a bit arrogant for anyone to just completely cross off any chance that we could actually be doing things to ourselves (not saying the above commenter, hypatia, is being arrogant - that comment just got me thinking). I mean, we can get diabetes from obesity. We can become obese from eating too much. We can give ourselves heart disease and strokes and cancer from having poor diets, not properly managing stress, and smoking. Why is it so hard to wrap our brains around the possibility that other illnesses and conditions could very well be caused by our own actions and environmental influences? It shouldn't be. I think people like Jenny McCarthy get way to much flack for thinking outside the box (when sometimes, "outside the box" seems like common sense). Kudos to you for writing this, Kristen. Alicia, Celebrity Psychings’s last blog post..Enter To Win The Jerry Greenspan Student Voice of Mental Health Award

By: Kristen King

Kristen King — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:30:23 +0000

@hypatia, the definition of “actual researchers” seems to vary, and not everyone agrees with you. I do appreciate your comment and your continuing the dialogue, and you’re so right that we’re able to diagnose mental and physical disabilities with more clarity than we have in the past. But I don’t agree that “real research” definitively disproves a link between mercury and autism or vaccines and autism. There is a lot of gray in this debate.

By: hypatia

hypatia — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:19:40 +0000

Why aren’t more people making this connection?

Because actual researchers know that there is no link between mercury and autism?

Maybe because there is actually a negative correlation between thimerosal? The rates of thimerosal have dropped dramatically at the same time autism rates have risen. We can’t even actually prove that autism rates are going up, we just know that there are more children being diagnosed.

In fact some researchers are convinced that the current rate of autism is nothing new we a simply being more accurate in diagnosing the condition. In the past many children with severe autism would have simply been labeled with and “Intellectual disability” or a “mental retardation” and those with mild autism would probably never be diagnosed with anything and just considered “weird” by family.

For example Daniel Tammet is a famous autistic savant, but being born in the 70′s he was never diagnosed with autism until well into adulthood, after he entered the public eye for his superhuman math abilities.

By: Kristen King

Kristen King — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:38:19 +0000

@allena, you would think, but unfortunately, no. According to the CDC, “Since 2001, with the exception of some influenza (flu) vaccines, thimerosal is not used as a preservative in routinely recommended childhood vaccines.” But it’s still in other vaccines. And in some places, mercury was replaced with aluminum, which some believe is even worse than mercury.

By: allena

allena — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:29:11 +0000

Didn't they finally remove the mercury from vaccines, even the "trace" amounts? allena’s last blog post..FAQ: Do You Show a Subject Their Interview First?