Another slant - Maybe if autism is related to allergy, as some suggest
(gluten and other foods) then this would indicate a family history of
allergy.  Just a wild stab - too much about autism is conjecture, I am
afraid.

Michelle Bentley
----- Original Message -----
From: "Diane DiCarlo" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 5:47 AM
Subject: autistic kids/soy-fed *parents* -- coincidence?


> I have recently been speaking with a couple of moms who have breastfed
kids
> that are mildly autistic.  It was interesting to me to learn that in both
> cases the children had a father who had been exclusively fed *soy*
formula.
>
> And it got me to wondering....  There's still no real proof of what the
> phytoestrogens and high levels of aluminum -- and heaven only knows what
> *else* -- in soy formulas are doing to babies.  Is it possible that the
> effects show up on the *next* generation?  Could there be a permanant
effect
> on the gonads?
>
> Obviously a sample of two isn't terribly scientific.  Still, feeding a
> developing infant a processed plant substance that's full of non-mammalian
> compounds seems likely to have quite different ill effects compared to the
> use of modified animal milks.
>
> A familial predisposition to allergy that would make soy the preferred
option
> in formula could play a part too, of course -- but in light of all that
> *isn't* known about soy formulas, the coincidence struck me.

> Diane DiCarlo
> LLLL
> Brooklyn, NY
>

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