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andrewducker-
Um, yes
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Not that I really care about the PS3 - but they've got a polarising HDTV! Want!
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Dr Mark Brosnan and Dr Ian Walker from the university's Department of Psychology found that as a group the fathers of autistic children didn't all go for the same figure as their most attractive choice. Studies show that the waist-to-hip ratio of 70 per cent is what the majority of men find most attractive because it correlates strongly with good health and fertility. Women within this range tend to have optimal levels of oestrogen and are less susceptible to major diseases. However women whose ratio shows their waist is bigger than their hips, or vice versa, tend to have higher levels of testosterone. Testosterone encourages fat to deposit on the waist while oestrogen encourages fat to deposit on the hips. Genetic influences and high-testosterone levels during a baby's development in the womb have been linked to autism.
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Some very interesting facts and figures.
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Date: 2009-01-09 03:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-09 05:40 pm (UTC)And I love the Hunter Thompson posters. I must get to the movie!
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Date: 2009-01-09 05:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-10 12:40 am (UTC)Crabtree's a Satanist, isn't he? Used to post to uk.r.c.
If you think he's wrong that the church in the UK is in decline, you could do your own page of references I suppose.
interesting...
Date: 2009-01-10 10:04 am (UTC)1) There has been no correlation between testosterone and autism
2) If there is a correlation, it doesn't mean that it's a causation
I'm tired of all this nonsense being spouted about autism. As someone who has been trained to deal with mental disabilities and autistics, I find it highly frustrating that the Oprah crowd (of the 1 in 100 children, vaccines caused my child to be autistic, change in diet helped my autistic son to not be autistic anymore) and others are basically making up whatever random correlation they feel like. Flavour of the day won't help those with autism.
Usually you have good links. This was a little lacking today.
/rant over
Re: interesting...
Date: 2009-01-10 10:14 am (UTC)http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18803959
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18547459
are two things I've turned up fairly easily - and I know that the Autism Research Centre in Cambridge is looking into it, so it's not as if it's exactly fringe science.
It's not something that's proven either, but there's certainly enough evidence of _something_ to make further research worthwhile.
Re: interesting...
Date: 2009-01-10 08:03 pm (UTC)As someone who works regularly with autistic, I would love to see help for severly "grillig" (sudden interchangable moods and behaviour) autistics. Having dealt with this type of PDD-NOS and autistic people, I know how difficult and hard it is. Also my colleagues struggle with these types. So far medication has little to no effect&often provokes the opposite reaction to what is expected. Gentle Teaching can only do so much&isolation only helps in the sense that it takes the carer/client (if self harming) out of a potentially dangerous situation.
I go on the basis of my boyfriend, who(as a doctor) has private access to medical studies on a website online. That updates with all recent research and the actual correlations, conclusions and numbers on any studies conducted (I believe) within Europe. As of yet, he has yet to see any studies that positively show the correlation between testosterone and autism.
Re: interesting...
Date: 2009-01-12 10:33 am (UTC)http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jan/12/autism-screening-health
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Date: 2009-01-14 09:36 am (UTC)How many of those with autistic traits/autism showed correlation?
235 is still a small research group! Also the article seems to focus on the pre-screening of autism. That's already jumping three steps ahead. First they should be confirming the results of the test on a larger scale. Even a population of 1000 people in such a test is too small, considering that autism effects 1 in 1000-2000 people.
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Date: 2009-01-10 03:49 pm (UTC)women whose ratio shows their waist is bigger than their hips, or vice versa
'or vice versa'? what? what the heck does that MEAN?!
Also is anyone's waist REALLY bigger than their hips - that sounds a bit wrong if you ask me, eww.
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Date: 2009-01-10 04:42 pm (UTC)And yes, people with high testosteron levels tend not to really have wasists that go in at all, and put on weight there faster than they put weight on their hips.