Obesity epidemic caused by fructose not fat: (all episodes will play one after the other) Food corporations and a complicit government are responsible for this: Making A Killing - The Untold Story Of Psychotropic Drugs: Fluoride is not essential for the human body, it is a poison: Definitive study on fetal alcohol syndrome: Fetal Alcohol Exposure and IQ at Age 8: Evidence from a Population-Based Birth-Cohort Study Background Observational studies have generated conflicting evidence on the effects of moderate maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy on offspring cognition mainly reflecting problems of confounding. Among mothers who drink during pregnancy fetal alcohol exposure is influenced not only by mother's intake but also by genetic variants carried by both the mother and the fetus. Associations between children's cognitive function and both maternal and child genotype at these loci can shed light on the effects of maternal alcohol consumption on offspring cognitive development. Methods We used a large population based study of women recruited during pregnancy to determine whether genetic variants in alcohol metabolising genes in this cohort of women and their children were related to the child's cognitive score (measured by the Weschler Intelligence Scale) at age 8. Findings We found that four genetic variants in alcohol metabolising genes in 4167 children were strongly related to lower IQ at age 8, as was a risk allele score based on these 4 variants. This effect was only seen amongst the offspring of mothers who were moderate drinkers (1-6 units alcohol per week during pregnancy (per allele effect estimates were -1.80 (95% CI = -2.63 to -0.97) p = 0.00002, with no effect among children whose mothers abstained during pregnancy (0.16 (95%CI = -1.05 to 1.36) p = 0.80), p-value for interaction = 0.009). A further genetic variant associated with alcohol metabolism in mothers was associated with their child's IQ, but again only among mothers who drank during pregnancy. "Self-medicating with alcohol during pregnancy and the direct cause of Fetal alcohol Syndrome are just two examples of how social and cultural issues within the Orthodox Jewish home can pile on top of one another due to the domino effect, leaving a women and her child in a cycle that may continue from pregnancy, to birth, with each child. I could go on and on regarding cause and effect, as I believe they are all related. However, I am going to stop here because this paper focuses on battering of the wife and her coping mechanisms within a dysfunctional Orthodox Jewish home." link Don't try to reason with a drunk orthodox Jew who possibly has fetal alcohol syndrome: