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Nat'l Women's Health Week
May 15, 2014
Every Tuesday, I try to write something I learn or take away from raising kids with disabilities. This week, it’s a little more closer to home, in that I’m thinking about how raising my children has directly changed my life.
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May 14, 2013
This story was cross-posted from the Mom-Blog in celebration of National Women's Health Week. Every Tuesday, I try to write something I learn or take away from raising kids with disabilities. This week, it’s a little more closer to home, in that I’m thinking about how raising my children has directly changed my life. In fact, it’s directly changed every single item that lines my pantry and fridge. About 2 years ago, we started on this so-called “autism diet” journey. I hate calling it that, because I only have one child with autism and yet we nearly all eat like this. To start, it’s simple:...
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March 16, 2012
Here is an excerpt from the article, New Research Links Environment and Autism , by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff, Executive Director & CEO, Healthy Child Healthy World : On Monday (7/4/11), the story broke that researchers at the University of California at San Francisco and Stanford University conducted a study of 192 pairs of twins and found that genetics account for about 38 percent of the risk of autism, and environmental factors account for about 62 percent. Read more>> This makes me wonder, is anyone surprised? Could anyone look at the rising rates in autism and think it's ALL...
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