Green Options » consumersim http://greenoptions.com/tag/consumersim Posts tagged 'consumersim' Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:40:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Five Ways You Can Help Stop Autism and Cancer http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/01/19/five-ways-you-can-help-stop-autism-and-cancer/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/01/19/five-ways-you-can-help-stop-autism-and-cancer/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:40:08 +0000 Joe Mohr http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/01/19/five-ways-you-can-help-stop-autism-and-cancer/

As a former teacher of students with autism, a current and lifelong fear-er of cancer, and an avid environmentalist, I always saw a link between these three “interests” of mine. Many types of cancer can be/have been linked to the various environmental toxins introduced into our environment by major polluting industries (plastics, chemical, coal, oil, to name a few major offenders).

Yet, with autism, the link has long been mentioned, studied, and brushed aside due to lack of evidence. I’d imagine that if you had a line chart with three lines, one for the rate of environmental toxins 1900 to present, and the other two with the rate of cancer and autism cases during that same time, the three lines would ride the same “hockey stick curve”.

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