OK so....what’s the mechanism?
Interesting would be to know the autism rates in Western Europe....where sugar is still used in products instead of HFCS like in the US and Canada.
Let’s see...
Exhibit A. “The study, led by former FDA toxicologist...”
Exhibit B. “With autism rates now at a mind-blowing 1 in 88, there are many who are desperately looking for a definitive cause...”
Exhibit C. The countless normal children who got a vaccine and began showing autism symptoms soon after.
Hmmmm... tough one.
If you eat fresh food, including meat, poultry, fish, fruits and vegatables rather than canned processed food, you can eliminate most HFCS from your diet.
When canning your own produce, use cane sugar rather than HFCS.
“...interferes with the body’s ability to eliminate toxins such as mercury”
Mercury, as in the mercury in vaccines?
Oh, no, not THAT mercury. /sarc
So why is autism so prevalent among the children of really smart people, many of whom are health food nuts? If it were HFCS, you’d think the trailer parks would be full of autistic kids, where sodas often get drunk at every meal. But that’s not where the uptick is.
I don’t know about autism, but I had some persistent headaches for years until I gave up soda, which has high fructose corn syrup. The headaches stopped a couple days later and I have not had one since.
An autism diagnosis means money, which is why the definition of autism has been broadly expanded in recent years.
Cheerios
I call BS.
Oh, boy. This ranks right up there with the Wakefield “study”. Pure junk science. I wonder how it got past the reviewers.
HFCS is just sugar. Table sugar is 50% each, glucose and fructose. Other commonly found sugars have varying amounts of glucose and fructose. HFCS is 40% or more fructose, the rest is glucose. The irony is that many people who have swallowed, hook line and sinker, the hype about the horrors of HFCS probably buy agave syrup as a “natural alternative” to sugar... agave syrup, which is almost all fructose.
I realize people want to blame something for autism. We don’t know what causes it yet, but it has all the characteristics of a genetic disorder.
These are the same sh*t for brains researchers that keep changing their story on coffee: “Coffee causes hypertension and heart disease...” “No wait, now we've determined that coffee isn't as bad as we once thought and may even help to prevent dementia."
They can stick these studies up their butts.
Someone has to be at the bottom of the bell curve. That’s always been the case.
High-fructose corn syrup
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS)—also called glucose-fructose syrup[1][2] in the UK, glucose/fructose[3] in Canada, Glucose-Fructose syrup[4] in the EU and high-fructose maize syrup in other countries—comprises any of a group of corn syrups that has undergone enzymatic processing to convert some of its glucose into fructose to produce a desired sweetness. In the United States, consumer foods and products typically use high-fructose corn syrup as a sweetener. It has become very common in processed foods and beverages in the U.S., including breads, cereals, breakfast bars, lunch meats, yogurts, soups, and condiments.[5]
According to the USDA, HFCS consists of 24% water, and the rest sugars. The most widely used varieties of high-fructose corn syrup are: HFCS 55 (mostly used in soft drinks), approximately 55% fructose and 42% glucose; and HFCS 42 (used in beverages, processed foods, cereals and baked goods), approximately 42% fructose and 53% glucose.[6][7] HFCS-90, approximately 90% fructose and 10% glucose, is used in small quantities for specialty applications, but primarily is used to blend with HFCS 42 to make HFCS 55.[8]
In the U.S., HFCS is among the sweeteners that have primarily replaced sucrose (table sugar) in the food industry. Factors for this include governmental production quotas of domestic sugar, subsidies of U.S. corn, and an import tariff on foreign sugar; all of which combine to raise the price of sucrose to levels above those of the rest of the world, making HFCS cheaper for many sweetener applications. Critics of the extensive use of HFCS in food sweetening argue that the highly processed substance is more harmful to humans than regular sugar, contributing to weight gain by affecting normal appetite functions,[9] and that in some foods HFCS may be a source of mercury,[10][11][12][13] a known neurotoxin. The Corn Refiners Association disputes these claims and maintains that HFCS is comparable to table sugar.[14] Studies by the American Medical Association suggest “it appears unlikely that HFCS contributes more to obesity or other conditions than sucrose”, but welcome further independent research on the subject.[15] Further reviews in the clinical literature have disputed the links between HFCS and obesity,[16] type 2 diabetes,[17] and metabolic syndrome,[16] and concluded that HFCS is no different from any other sugar in relationship to these diseases. HFCS has been classified generally recognized as safe (GRAS) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration since 1976.[18] Yet further study showed that with dietary zinc (Zn) loss and copper (Cu) gain from the consumption of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), metabolic processes required to eliminate heavy metals are impaired in children with autism.[19] ...”
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup
And Global Warming. Oh, and George Bush.
A friend had her two kids diagnosed with Aspergers years ago. Five years apart in age but diagnosed at the same time.
I have a theory that most of those with kids diagnosed with autism have college degrees. Just a theory.
Look at the chemical makeup of HFCS, compared to honey. They are so similar that Chinese criminals sometimes import HFCS labeled as honey.
So honey should cause the same problems as HFCS, right?
Autism Linked to High-Fructose Corn Syrup
http://intellectualodditiesnetwork.com/showthread.php?tid=14866
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A macroepigenetic approach to identify factors
responsible for the autism epidemic in the
United States
Abstract
The number of children ages 6 to 21 in the United States receiving special education services under the autism
disability category increased 91% between 2005 to 2010 while the number of children receiving special education
services overall declined by 5%. The demand for special education services continues to rise in disability categories
associated with pervasive developmental disorders. Neurodevelopment can be adversely impacted when gene
expression is altered by dietary transcription factors, such as zinc insufficiency or deficiency, or by exposure to toxic
substances found in our environment, such as mercury or organophosphate pesticides. Gene expression patterns
differ geographically between populations and within populations. Gene variants of paraoxonase-1 are associated
with autism in North America, but not in Italy, indicating regional specificity in gene-environment interactions. In
the current review, we utilize a novel macroepigenetic approach to compare variations in diet and toxic substance
exposure between these two geographical populations to determine the likely factors responsible for the autism
epidemic in the United States.
http://www.clinicalepigeneticsjournal.com/content/pdf/1868-7083-4-6.pdf
I never participate.
I wonder if these studies have anything relation to the scaremongering company Fenton Communications, which is known to take money from one industry to scare consumers from competing products, and takes on econut cases for similar reasons for eco groups?