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Autism

What About Mom?

July 1, 2010

What About Mom? In addition to taking care of everyone else, busy moms need to take care of themselves too! I grew up in an Irish-Catholic family where little self -indulgences like getting a massage, taking a hot bath with candles or even going on a solitary walk to calm the mind were unheard of. [...]

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Questioning the Motives Behind a New Study

May 22, 2010

A rebuttal to the new study reporting that gluten and casein free diets don’t help children with autism.

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10 Tips to Minimize the Risk of Developing Cancer

May 12, 2010

10 Tips for Preventing Cancer…..President Obama’s Task Force (on the Role the Environment Plays in Cancer) Takes the “Fringe” Out of Cancer Prevention If you are like me, you’ve been reading information on this subject written by forward-thinking health advocates for decades. As a result, many of us have been trying to minimize our exposure [...]

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Emerging Science and Common Sense Give Parents Better Options for Preventing and Treating Autism (published in the Autism File Magazine April 2010)

April 21, 2010

Emerging Science Combined with Common Sense Gives Parents Better Options for Preventing Autism No one has all the answers as to why so many children are developing autism. Genetic predisposition plus environmental factors? The increase in the number of vaccines given to a child before the age of 5? Some even explain this by saying [...]

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What Can Be Done to Prevent Autism Now? Feature article in the June issue of Pathways Magazine

April 11, 2010

What Can Be Done to Prevent Autism Now? By Maureen H. McDonnell, RN Although the mystery of the autism epidemic has not yet been solved, emerging science and reports from parents about specific treatments that have improved (or in some cases recovered) their ASD children have given us strong clues regarding ways to prevent and [...]

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Chronic Illness on the Rise in Children…..Why?

February 27, 2010

Did you see the article in the LA Times today on how chronic illnesses are on the rise in children? If not, it’s at http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-child-health17-2010feb17,0,456579.story. When I taught childbirth classes and worked in labor and delivery back in the 80′s, my coworkers thought I was a little nuts because my ongoing slogan to all the parents [...]

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