By Mark Blaxill Mar 8th 2010 12:58PM

Source AOLHealth

Following a story in Time magazine about Jenny McCarthy's role as an autism activist, AOL Health contributor Mark Blaxill responds, saying that "Time" magazine is feeding what he calls "the hungry lie."

More than most other media outlets, you can count on "Time" magazine for the worst in autism coverage. In the pages of Time, rising autism rates are always due to better diagnosing; causes are always genetic, orthodox scientists are always heroic and parent advocates always sadly misguided. What's more, any and all vaccines in any combination are always safe and certainly have nothing to do with autism. A friend of mine calls this the big hungry lie. Why hungry? Because it's so wrong, it requires frequent feeding and thanks to a largely compliant media, feedings take place with regularity. Always at the front of the pack, "Time," in a February 25 article, fed the hungry lie again in a fascinatingly passive-aggressive essay titled, "Who's Afraid of Jenny McCarthy."

In case, you missed it (who reads "Time" anymore?), the Time piece focused on celebrity mom Jenny McCarthy, who has become one of the most prominent and formidable autism parent advocates. In a successful entertainment career, she has shown the world that she is beautiful, sexy, earthy, smart, articulate and determined (and in roughly that order). She also happens to have a son who received an autism diagnosis in 2005 when he was not quite three. To her lasting credit, McCarthy didn't

La tasa de autismo está aumentado cada cinco años en todas partes del mundo. Si está esperando un hijo o quiere tenerlo, quizás  debería sentarse antes de leer estas estadisticas increíbles, recientemente publicado por La Encuesta Naciónal de La Salud Infantil [National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH)] en 2009, la cual está apoyada por Los Recursos Sanitarios y Servicios Administrativos del Departamento Estadounidense de Los Servicios Sanitarios y Humanos [Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the US Department of Health and Human Services]:

 “Según los datos de una encuesta teléfonica realizada en 2007 a los padres de  casí 82,000 niños estadounidenses, las probalidades que tiene un padre de que se le comunique que su hijo tenga TEA son 1 de cada 63. Si es niño, las probalidades llegan a un nivel de ciencia-ficción en este caso uno de cada 38, o 2,6% de todos los niños varónes en los E.E.U.U.”

Contributed by Christina Kimona

During a lecture on Essential Oils, they told us how the foot soles can absorb oils. Their example: Put garlic on your feet and within 20 minutes you can 'taste' it.

Some of us have used Vicks VapoRub for years for everything from chapped lips to sore toes and many body parts in between. But I've never heard of this. And don't laugh, it works 100% of the time, although the scientists who discovered it aren't sure why. To stop night time coughing in a child (or adult as we found out personally), put Vicks VapoRub generously on the bottom of the feet at bedtime, then cover with socks.

Even persistent, heavy, deep coughing will stop in about 5 minutes and stay stopped for many, many hours of relief. Works 100% of the time and is more effective in children than even very strong prescription cough medicines. In addition it is extremely soothing and comforting and they will sleep soundly..

Just happened to tune in A.M. Radio and picked up this guy talking about why cough medicines in kids often do more harm than good, due to the chemical makeup of these strong drugs so, I listened. It was a surprise finding and found to be more effective than prescribed medicines for children at bedtime, in addition to have a soothing and calming effect on sick children who then went on to sleep soundly.