Children In General are Deficient in Vitamins and Minerals:
IN 2002 research was published by the American Journal of Epidemiology. They studied the diets of over 2500 children between the ages of 11 to 19. That Russian research found that 86% of the boys and 88% of the girls were deficient in magnesium. These were not sick or Autistic children but average children. There have been other research studies that also back up the problem of children being nutritionally deficient.
Autistic Children Have Deficiencies: Several research studies using hair analysis have shown most autistic children are low in zinc, copper, magnesium, and B6. Autistic children, according to some research, often show a severe imbalance in glutathione, an antioxidant, as well. Glutathione is used by the body to help it detoxify and excrete heavy metals.
Factors Leading To Deficiencies: Many children are picky eaters and will not eat sufficient nutritious foods such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and salads. The typical American diet is full of sugar, processed foods, junk foods, and empty calories. The foods grown today are also often lacking in vitamins and minerals as well. I might add obesity and diabetes in children is a national crisis. A fat child is not a healthy child and obesity does not tell the story of a child who is eating properly. It should not be too hard to realize that many children are nutritionally deficient.
Many American Children Go Hungry: It’s not just children in third world countries that go without food.
It is a fact that thousands of children go without breakfast and at times dinner because of economic conditions in the US. The applications for food stamps and free meals at churches has soared. These are middle class families who for the first time have lost jobs and cannot find new ones. They are losing their homes as well. Many children subsist on macaroni and cheese out of a box and peanut butter. This is the reality of these economic times. The school lunch program is a savior for many families. It may be the only real nutritious meal that these children eat for the day. There are many areas in Florida, Louisianna, and Fresno, Ca just to name three where the standard of living is not even on the charts, it’s so low., The fact that thousands of children are deficient is not open for discussion for it’s a hard, cold economic fact.
Mercury Toxicity: Heavy metal toxicity including mercury displaces the essential minerals of magnesium, selenium, zinc and copper. It disrupts many of the systems in the body including enzymes which are needed in thousands of bodily functions. Mercury is all around us. It is a fact that 25 % of the air pollution in Los Angeles comes from China and contains mercury from their coal burning manufacturing plants. This is not including the Mercury in vaccines and in our soil that the food we eat is grown in. Mercury and other toxic pollutants are being found in fish, wildlife, water supplies, and in the forest soils. Almost anyone these days, may have more Mercury in their system than is healthy.
Tylenol: A study from the University of California showed that the combination of Tylenol and the MMR vaccine increases the chance of children under 5 developing Autism. Tylenol is believed to deplete glutathione. Glutathione is an antioxidant used by the liver to eliminate heavy metals and toxins from the body. Tylenol and other drugs like it are known to deplete glutathione.
Magnesium Deficiency and Its Importance to Autism and Health:
Magnesium is involved in brain membrane integrity and function; used by enzymatic systems in the production of DNA; used to repair and maintain healthy DNA.
Magnesium is needed to produce bone; manufacture protein and fatty acids; is involved with producing new cells; activating B vitamins; used in clotting blood; used to manufacture ATP, which is part of your energy system; used to maintain healthy insulin function. Insulin malfunction leads to childhood diabetes.
Magnesium is important to lung function overall, lung capacity, and airway flow. This would impact children who have allergies and asthma.
Magnesium is needed for the heart, heart muscles and all muscles.
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