Re:Study: Association of Maternal Insecticide Levels with Au...
by Herodotus38 on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @09:28AM
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Or, you should see a big difference in breast fed children vs those that had formula. I'm pretty sure that variable has been heavily researched without any significant difference.
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Re:Study: Association of Maternal Insecticide Levels with Au...
by jamesrcole on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @09:38AM
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I'm saying something different: does it remove enough DDT from the mothers body to affect womb development of subsequent children?
Re:Study: Association of Maternal Insecticide Levels with Au...
by Herodotus38 on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @12:05AM
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I see your logic and it makes sense. My point was more that if we posit DDT in breast milk caused autism, we'd expect to see a difference in rates of breast vs bottle fed kids, which we don't. So I'm skeptical of it being a big player, but I'll admit I haven't looked into this area deeply.
Re:Study: Association of Maternal Insecticide Levels with Au...
by tremon on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @09:35AM
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Not sure if this is what you meant, but breast-feeding a child wouldn't increase the autism risk for that child -- the damage would have been done by then.
You would need to research the occurrence of autism among children of breast-fed mothers vs formula-fed (i.e. a cross-generational study). I'm not sure if that has been studied as extensively as you assume.
Re:Study: Association of Maternal Insecticide Levels with Au...
by strainer on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @11:15AM
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Breastmilk is the evolved complete nutrition for babies.
Various milk formulas are developed towards that goal.
You cant compare these with the assumption they do perform the same - it would be like using Soylent 2.0 as the control for adult dietary research.