Marc Joseph Nutrition - Blog

Bernard Miltenberger, in a recent column in the Cumberland Times-News, raises many important questions that need to be asked (and answered) with regard to the autism epidemic:

• Why did the CDC and the FDA allow mercury exposures from childhood vaccines to more than double between 1988 and 1992 without bothering to calculate cumulative totals and their potential risks?
• Why was there a corresponding spike in reported cases of autism spectrum disorders during this time period?
• Why did autism grow from a relatively rare incidence of 1 in every 10,000 births in the 1980s to 1 in 500 in the late 1990s?
• Why did it continue to increase to 1 in 250 in the year 2000 and then 1 in 166 children today?
• Many should ask why trusted health agencies would allow a known neurotoxin to be interjected into the bodies of small babies - in amounts that exceed federal safety exposure levels for adults by up to 50 times per shot?
• Why are rates of ADD, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), speech delay, and other childhood disorders also rising?
• Why does one in every six American children have a developmental disorder or behavioral problem?
• Why does autism affect boys at a 4-to-1 ratio over girls?
• Why to this day, is thimerosal still found in the majority of flu shots, which the U.S government recommends for pregnant women and children between six months and 23 months of age?
• Why in 2004, did the CDC decline to state a preference for mercury-free flu shots for infants?
• Why is autism research that has been successfully treating this disease as mercury poisoning using chelation and glutathione not being recommended to combat this epidemic?

You can’t argue with his conclusion that:

“Every citizen of this country should stand up and demand accountability from public health officials and the pharmaceutical industry.”

The topic of autism and related disorders such as Asperger’s and ADD/ADHD is one that I’ll regularly revisit here. With the number of children affected by developmental or behavioral disorders estimated at 1 in 6 in the U.S., it’s an issue that merits serious attention.

There’s already quite a bit that can be done today using dietary, supplementation, and detoxification interventions to help individuals affected with autism and ADD/ADHD heal and recover function. You can read more about these approaches here.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 27th, 2006 at 6:43 pm and is filed under Regulation, Vaccines, ADD/ADHD, Autism, Mercury. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.