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Your Mom always told you to eat your broccoli and vegetables for a reason and now you know why!A new study has shown that an extract of broccoli can help with the autistic kids who have a problem with behavior and social skills. The study looked at 40 teenage boys and young men who had autism and found that Sulforaphane an extract of a product found in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables helped with those autistic youth who had a fever effect. That is that when they had a fever their autistic behaviors faded away.The Broccoli extract was able to...

If you think your child antibiotics before the age of 2 is a good thing you might want to think again. Recently Dr Charles Bailey and staff  looked at the  records of nearly 65,000 children who tracked at clinics from 2001 through 2013. The researchers followed the children from birth to age 5. They tracked the height and weight of the children, and classified them as normal weight, overweight or obese. Children who had four or more exposures to antibiotics were 11 percent more likely to be obese than those who did not. The researchers also looked at whether the...