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An Inconvenient Study

By Jeff Barton

Oct 30, 2025
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America’s Children are Sick

Today approximately 50% of American children have at least one chronic illness compared with 12% in the 1980s. Rheumatoid Arthritis, Diabetes, Lupus, Chron’s Disease, Eczema, Allergies, and Autism, to name a few. Today about one in 30 children suffer from Autism to some degree while 30 years ago the incidence was 1 in 10,000. …

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