If You're Pregnant and eat Refined Sugar....STOP!

A very disturbing finding from a recent study notes that 42% of children who develop autism were  born to mothers with gestational diabetes!  WOW.

This truly underscores the importance of a healthy diet:  full of multi-colored vegetables, fresh fruit and protein.  Eating processed, pre-packaged foods and lots of simple carbohydrates often leads to the development of gestational diabetes (not to mention full blown type 2 diabetes for the rest of the population).

This statistic should be blasting out over social media and the news...I am, frankly, shocked that there appears to be no significant reaction to this information.  Something as simple as not eating refined sugar to protect an unborn child from autism and not a peep about it from any of the commentators on any news shows, as far as I could tell.

I have to wonder how many children develop autism because their mothers ate a diet high in refined sugar without developing diabetes.  Another point to consider is how much refined sugar is introduced to babies and toddlers and what damage is done to a maturing neurological system from all the junk food these children are eating...even in small amounts.

Look at the explosion of autism since the 1990's and the ridiculously high numbers of children developing type 2 diabetes during this same period.  Many researchers believe there is also a link between sugar intake and Alzheimers...it is known as "type 3 diabetes."  Autism and Alzheimer's both affect the brain...just different areas.  I hope more research is done on both of these conditions with respect to how refined sugar can affect nerve myelination (fatty tissue that surrounds the nerves to help conductivity).

For now, if you're pregnant, please just don't eat refined sugar.

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