Posted on 03/27/2014 12:44:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
e latest look at autism in the U.S. shows a startling 30 percent jump among 8-year-olds diagnosed with the disorder in a two-year period, to one in every 68 children.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which did the survey, says the numbers almost certainly reflect more awareness and diagnosis of kids who would have been missed in years past. The new estimate for 2010 was a jump from one in 88 children in 2008, the last year for which numbers had been available.
“The number of children diagnosed with autism continues to rise,” the agency’s Dr. Coleen Boyle told reporters.
But the CDC noted that the numbers vary greatly from state to state, and it did not use a nationally representative sample, but a look at groups of children in 11 states.
“The number of children identified with ASD (autism spectrum disorder) ranged from 1 in 175 children in Alabama to 1 in 45 children in New Jersey,” CDC says in its report, based on a survey taken in 2010. The numbers from 2008 were first reported in 2012.
This would work out to about 1.2 million children under 18, Boyle says.
Dr. Max Wiznitzer, a child neurologist at Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, who was not involved in the study, said he believed the numbers, but thought they reflected a rise in diagnosis, not "the true prevalence of autism."
“I'm not convinced that the true numbers of autism are rising, rising, rising every time we survey them,” Wiznitzer told NBC News in an interview.
“Over time, more children are being identified,” agreed Dr. Lisa Shulman, a specialist in autism at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University in New York.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Probably not pain as much as sensory overload or perhaps an unpleasant memory which results in fear. It’s not uncommon for them to be “scared” of shapes or colors or designs or animals. It’s part of the inner workings of the overactive mind.
They used to think they were crazy.
You’re exactly right— it’s a TRILLION dollar industry that keeps liberal voters employed.
Taxpayers will ever know how their money is wasted on phony diagnosis & treatments, thanks to HIPAA laws.
True story.
Post #7 you said: As I said on the other thread.....MANY diagnosed with “autism” can be helped/cured with a change in diet....no wheat/gluten..
You need to read this idiocy as many times as it takes to grasp the fact that you are lying. Let's see.....you said "MANY diagnosed with autism can be cured" by consuming no wheat/gluten. When you use the words "MANY" and "cured" you're doing exactly what you deny doing.
Autism is a serious issue that is treated seriously by people who have been impacted by it. They don't need some dishonest looney tunes making spurious claims that have absolutely no basis in sound science whatsoever. You do it on every autism thread and it is irresponsible as hell, and you have to know by now that it just isn't true. But yet you persist.....why? Just stop already.
Yes, my grand son is terrified of the wah-wah sound.
How Many on the “spectrum” have been diagnosed with “autism”...only to find out they may have been helped with other tools...diet is a possible tool...If I had child with it I would TRY everything...I have been told many things by doctors in my life only to find out they were wrong. Yes full blown autism is very serious...but there is NOW a spectrum which pulls in many more
I believe I have posted on 2 threads....stop stalking or the mods may visit..
No more responses to you
The wah-wah sound?
If they have automatic doors, they make a nasty sound that old people like me cannot hear
It’s the wah-wah sound in a cartoon that he loves.
I was thinking of the grocery store.
And there is no scientific evidence what so ever; zero, nill, zip, zultch, that a gluten free diet has any effect on Autism.
http://evidencemag.com/gluten-free-diet/ http://evidencemag.com/gluten-free-diet/
And in fact a gluten free diet, i.e. falling for the latest fad food packaging craze, might be even less healthy.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/most-people-shouldnt-eat-gluten-free/
I believe I have posted on 2 threads....stop stalking or the mods may visit..No more responses to you
Oh. I get it. You will probably report me to the mods too. You are one of those posters I come across here occasionally who believe that FR is their personal echo chamber; a place where they can say whatever they want and to whomever they want, but if someone comes along and challenges them with actual facts, then that’s “stalking”.
It might be the fluorescent hum he doesn’t like. Or the noises the freezer/refrigeration section make. Or maybe the blue/whiteness of the fluorescents.
And it might be the weird food smells from the bakery/deli section.
Prior to the 20th century most of SE Asia was gluten free.
So was the Western Hemisphere prior to Columbus.
I’m sure my Cherokee ancestors would have been surprised to know that their diet, which they’d eaten for thousands of years, was unhealthy.
I think you are right. Even going into Walmart gives me sensory overload, it’s just something about that store that bothers me.
I have a couple sensory issues of my own and always have. I can’t stand to feel anything chalky or anything sticky will just drive me nuts. I have to work up my nerve to touch a jar of honey, jelly, syrup.
First, you post total nonsense on a thread where people dealing with autism might be looking for relief. Then when you get called on it (stating that gluten free diets have cured autism) you lie about what you said. Advocating quackery is irresponsible. Stop it.
Read up on epigenetics.
And what was the average life expectancy in SE Asia prior to the 20th century?
So was the Western Hemisphere prior to Columbus.
What was the average life expectancy in the Western Hemisphere back then?
I’m sure my Cherokee ancestors would have been surprised to know that their diet, which they’d eaten for thousands of years, was unhealthy.
What was the average life expectancy of your Cherokee ancestors?
Right. We're living longer now than at any other time in human history. Yeah, all that gluten and GMO food is killing us. The Roman army conquered the world marching on bread. Too bad they weren't aware of the damage they were doing to their physical well being.
What was the life expectancy anywhere prior to antibiotics and modern medicine?
Do you think wheat leads to longer life?
Let’s look at the Japanese diet. Particularly those who live on Okinawa. Not a lot of wheat in that diet. And their life expectancy and IQ beat ‘Western’ life expectancy and IQ all to hell and back.
Interestingly enough when Japanese migrate to the west and adopt a western diet, their life expectancies fall to match ours.
And the wheat the Romans used in bread making was nothing like that we eat now. That’s new since the 1970’s.
Now, let’s talk Genghis Khan’s army. They didn’t eat very much grain of any kind. At all. And their tiny army annihilated the grain eating Chinese of the day. Just sayin’...
It appears they never considered that this could be a diagnosis issue rather than an autism epidemic. Arguing with a fixed mentality is a total waste of time, but it is the height of irresponsibility to make claims of a cure through diet when there is absolutely no scientific evidence whatsoever to support it. Apparently, pointing out that flagrant irresponsibility is now considered stalking. Good grief.
You might also note that when some people link to research, there is no question about its legitimacy. But when you do it, the research must be ridiculed because someone has an ancestor that was, well....something.
At least your link deals with the topic and supports your claim. You'd be surprised by the number of links that get thrown up here that don't do either.
Do you think wheat leads to longer life?
Never heard of Norman Borlaug, huh?
What are the percentages of autistic children born in other countries?
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