Is there a link between fluoride toxicity, gastro-intestinal damage and Salicylate intolerance commonly found in those with ADHD and Autism?

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Those of you breathing a sigh of relief over the thought that the theory of man made climate change may have had holes in it, may not want to read this for fear of a big dose of realism. For those who dare, here’s the findings of the world’s leading governmental International Panel for Climate Change.

Marc Segar was a man with Asperger’s back in the 90s before today’s autistic pride movement, who aspired to non-autistic ‘normality’, achieved a semblance of it, and died after jumping a divider and walking into oncoming traffic on a UK motorway. Read the rest of this entry »

Exposure to heavy metals is part of modern life. These heavy metals are in many common household products as well as the petrochemicals in our air and waterways. If toxic levels of heavy metals, including mercury, are being found in many children with autism and blamed for their autism, what if the problem was not the heavy metals at all but something else? Read the rest of this entry »

How many of us wish to reduce toxins in the food chain, save wildlife, reduce the pollution of our waterways? Yes many of those same people flush perfume and bleach down their sinks, baths, showers and toilets every day. Among the average ten toxins contained in perfume almost all synthetic perfumes contain carcinogenic (cancer causing) Phthalates , toxic to the liver and kidneys, and linked to birth defects, behavioural disorders and immune suppression. Read the rest of this entry »

A recent article in The Age, shocked me with its findings. 240 million cigarette butts a year are washed down storm water drains and end up in Melbourne’s water ways and finally Port Phillip Bay. They are part of the 7.2 billion cigarette butts tossed in Australia each year, part of an estimated 4.5 TRILLION cigarette butts tossed world wide which end up in waterways and oceans, leaking traces of 4000 toxic chemicals found in cigarette smoke and take 12 years to decompose. Read the rest of this entry »

Someone’s birthday? Christmas, Valentines Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day or other festivity? Thinking of spending your hard earned cash on something that may only clutter, support unethical corporates, support exploitative establishments and hideous regimes, come with environmental toxins and useless packaging which taxed the earth’s resources or contributed to global warming? Why should you care? Read the rest of this entry »

OK, so the Australian government doesn’t seem to care much about generations 20-50 years from now who will be faced with the economic and climatic catastrophes relating to global warming and the end of affordable petrol and is more concerned spending tax payer dollars doing public self back patting and image management than advertising simple ways we could all be doing our part given its too gutless to enforce directions for us. So what could we be doing? Read the rest of this entry »

The local paper isn’t usually the place one expects riveting news but I was this week it was. Read the rest of this entry »

With the new government proposal to phase out incandescent light bulbs, what about those on the autism spectrum with the visual perceptual processing challenge of Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome who struggle to concentrate, read and learn under fluorescent lighting? Read the rest of this entry »