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New Scientist feature

Thursday, June 26th, 2003

New Scientist has a story about a possible Mercury/Autism link The piece says that whilst Autistic babies had startlingly lower levels of Mercury than other kids (the search results page uses the term ‘normal’ kids), the finding do not necessarily indicate a Mercury intolerance- the MMR jab for example has no Mercury link.
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Safe spaces.

Thursday, June 26th, 2003

This looks pretty interesting – would be a good thing for Megan to dive around in and burn off any excess energy – unfortunately they’re pretty expensive so it’ll be a pressie for Xmas methnks.
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Food progress

Thursday, June 26th, 2003

Hm. OK, so its only been a few days but we’re already beginning to think we can rule the nutritional Autism thing out for Megan.

We’ll probably keep up the decrease in Dairy stuff but the rest of it doesn’t seem to be making much of an impact. Oh well- we’ll not abandon it just yet [...]

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Nutitional ASD

Sunday, June 22nd, 2003

Naomi ordered a book from Amazon awhile ago which arrived yesterday.

There’s an accompnying website with a large forum.

To be honest, we’re a little bit suspicious. The book seemed pretty much OK and fairly oriented in common sense but the forum goes a bit far, claiming that even Soya Milk is bad for those with Autism. [...]

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