A IS FOR AUTISM & ADD

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SCIENTIFIC PROOF: MILK CAUSES AUTISM & ADD

Florida researcher, Robert Cade, M.D., and his colleagues have
identified a milk protein, casomorphin, as the probable cause of
attention deficit disorder and autism.  They found Beta-
casomorphin-7 in high concentrations in the blood and urine of
patients with either schizophrenia or autism.

(AUTISM, 1999, 3)
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Eighty percent of cow's milk protein is casein.  It has been
documented that casein breaks down in the stomach to produce a
peptide casomorphine, an opiate.

Another researcher observed that casomorphin aggravated the
symptoms of autism.

(Panksepp, J.  Trends in Neuroscience, 1979, 2)
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A third scientist produced evidence of elevated levels of
endorphin-like substances in the cerebro-spinal fluid of people
with autism.

(Gillberg, C. (1988)  Aspects of Autism: Biological Research
Gaskell:London, pp. 31-37)
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The Autism Research Unit, School of Health Sciences has the
following information on their website:

"The quantities of these compounds, as found in the urine, are
much too large to be of central nervous system  origin. The
quantities are such that they can only have been derived from the
incomplete breakdown of certain foods."

http://osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/autism/
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PARENT'S MAGAZINE REPORTS MILK LINK TO AUTISM

Search the Internet and you'll find many anecdotal stories from
parents blaming their children's autism on milk and dairy
products.  One such story appeared  in the February, 2000 issue
of "Parent's Magazine."

http://www.livingsensibly.org/autism.html
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For children with autism, milk may very well be the major factor.
One out of five American children have been diagnosed with
attention deficit disorder.  One out of five American children
take Ritalin.  An alternative therapy?  NOTMILK!
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Robert Cohen author of:   MILK A-Z
Executive Director (notmilkman@notmilk.com)
Dairy Education Board
http://www.notmilk.com
This file: http://www.notmilk.com/aa.txt

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