Autism
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Emerging Science and Common Sense Gives Parents Options for Treating and 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 the increase by saying it’s due to better diagnosis. The real problem is, while we wait
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Are There Safer Ways to Vaccinate Our Children?
Are There Safer Ways to Vaccinate Our Children? Maureen McDonnell, RN “There are unanswered questions about vaccine safety. We need studies on vaccinated populations based on various schedules and doses as well as individual patient susceptibilities that we are continuing to learn about. No one should be threatened by the pursuit of this knowledge. Vaccine
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What Can Be Done to Prevent Autism Now?
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 treat Autism Spectrum Disorders. Causation theories range from: it must be due to
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One of the Greatest Gifts You Can Give Your Child (& Yourself)
Get Healthy BEFORE You Get Pregnant… by Maureen McDonnell, RN We all know there are many factors at play in the days and weeks following conception that are crucial for the survival and healthy development of a fetus such as diet, stress, infection, tobacco use, environmental toxins, alcohol, drugs etc. But what we don’t often
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Stop the Insanity! The Over-Drugging of a Nation
Let me start this article by saying, that as a nurse, I have seen drugs used in extraordinarily positive and helpful ways. In emergency situations involving infection or serious injury, they literally save lives. But, I beg you to look at the alarming statistics (especially as they relate to psychiatric medications) and see for yourself,
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Super Foods for a Healthy Family
I know the names Acai (pronounced ahh Sigh Eee), Cacao (pronounced Ca Cow) and Goji sound like exotic, foreign substances, but the truth is these are nutrient-dense “superfoods” that are rapidly gaining in popularity. And my prediction is, as more of us focus on ways to live longer, healthier lives, these strange sounding powders and berries
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What Do Cigarettes, Sugar and Vaccines Have in Common?
In 1958 the Center for Disease Control (undoubtedly influenced by Big Tobacco) announced: “Smoking does not cause lung cancer.” In the 1970’s, the Sugar Industry began its well-funded PR campaign to shift public opinion away from the health destroying effects of sugar. Documents have recently been unearthed from the archives at Colorado University’s library (1)
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The Relationship between the Gut and the Brain
Typically, gut specialists (gastroenterologists) and the brain docs (psychiatrists) do not function under the premise that their specialties are in any way related. However, new understandings have emerged which show a wonderfully interwoven, codependent relationship between what goes on in the gut and how well the brain functions. The relationship is so profound, that I
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10 Facts about Vaccines
Important Facts To Know Regarding the Current Vaccine Debate List compiled by Maureen McDonnell (a registered nurse who has worked in the field of pediatrics for over 37 years)
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A Top Scientist at the CDC Blew the Whistle!
What does it mean when a top scientist at the Center for Disease Control (William Thompson, PhD) admits that he and the coauthors of a study published in 2004 purposefully hid data that revealed a strong association between the Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccine and autism in a specific population of children? I’ll tell you