Experts say environmental toxins are responsible for kicking
many of our immune systems into overdrive, causing health
disorders from allergies to asthma to autism. For example,
statistics recently released by the National Survey of
Children’s Health and supported by the Health Resources and
Services Administration of the US Department of Health and Human
Services say that the odds of a child receiving an
autism/Asperger’s diagnosis are now one in 63. If the child is a
boy, the chances of an autism/Asperger’s diagnosis jump to one
in 38 — unnerving. But according to a Huffington Post article,
which reported on this study, there was also some surprising
news. The article claims that a large number of children
“originally diagnosed with autism/Asperger’s went on to shed
their diagnosis as they got older.” And more, that researchers
were told by the parents interviewed that their kids “had
autism, Asperger’s Disorder etc. at some point, but not
currently.” Which leads you to one of two conclusions: These
kids we