July 5, 2018, Fox26, Fresno, CA: Food allergies forcing families to change their lifestyles https://kmph.com/news/local/food-allergies-forcing-families-to-change-their-lifestyles The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports food allergies among children rose a whopping 50 percent between 1997 and 2011. … According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA), one in 13 children now has a food allergy, In California, it's one in 11. That number, is up. And doctors don't know why. "There are so many theories on why it's happening," says Dr. Angela Sabry, a Pediatric Allergist with Baz Allergy, Asthma and Sinus Center. "You may have heard the most popular one being the hygiene hypothesis. That's where we are so obsessed in this day and age with killing germs, making sure everything is clean and wiped down all the time. There's a theory that our immune system has gotten bored. And it sees a nutrient like a food and instead of recognizing it as something good for the body, it has an overreaction to it."
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Childhood Lost
Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).
Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.
Anne Dachel, Media editor, Age of Autism
http://www.ageofautism.com/media/
(John Dachel, Tech. assist.)
What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless.
John Stone,
UK media editor, Age of Autism
The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It seemed to me that with rising autism prevalence, you’d also see rising autism costs to society, and it turns out, the costs are catastrophic.
They calculated that in 2015 autism cost the United States $268 billion and they projected that if autism continues at its current rate, we’re looking at one trillion dollars a year in autism costs by 2025, so within five years.
Toby Rogers, PhD, Political economist
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