Tracking a New Generation

Are they testing whether milk products are simply bad for children? If not, this is a colossal waste of time.

Claudia: My overall reaction is this, unless this study is being overseen by the leading doctors and researchers in each of these fields of disease who continue to devote their lives to finding cures and have already established a track record of being a leading expert who actually has made major headway in finding solutions, we mine as well put the $3.2 billion to better use. Results from any study, including the most controlled study and narrowly defined focus, are subject to so many variables and inaccuracies right down to the subjective views of the staff that chooses each participant. Throwing $3.2 billion at a study of this magnitude will certainly ensure that 2/3's of that budget will be led away through human error and waste upfront, with the latter third possibly deriving some result underlyed by a best guess as to home much accuracy and benfit those results will offer to mankind.

I believe the better way to go would be to split the funds and donate them to the leading doctors and researchers in these fields of concerns who are already knee deep in finding solution and already have a reliable team in place to carry though. Their biggest sources of concern, I am certain, is ensuring that they don't run out of funds in order to complete the studies they are already doing. Why reinvent the wheel without good reason when the wheel has already been invented in the most optimum of ways and is now looking to just continue forth in building the rest of the car in a way that will carry mankind down the road to solution efficiently and in the most timely of fashions.

My company is doing this and we are tying kids and families to a uniquely branded retail store as well as a major supermarket chain, a magazine, a kids television network, retailers from the toy industry, an e-commerce site, and a new broadway dance show being produced and choreographed by the founder of E! TV network as well as three well known celebrities...a good chunk of the proceeds of which to be donated to a wonderful foundation led by leading doctors devoted to finding cures for cancer in children. I feel more safe and effective carrying through this way then not as I am ensured that all our work and the monetary gain therewith is being placed in the most effective hands and will be put to good use with the least bleeding knowing what this foundation and these doctors have done so far.

Anyway, those are my thoughts. Great question. Best, Laura J. Wellington, CEO, The Giddy Gander Company LLC, lauraw@wellcon.com

It would be wonderful to believe that a study like this would be carried out in a logical and common sense form. Researches are doctors spend their entire lives trying to unlock the mysteries of just one of each one of these diseases. They may or may not come to an answer but that singular devotion is necessary to finding out clues to the ultimate cure for each disease. A twenty year study of this magnitude will take atleast a ten years to get off the ground
assuming that everyone working on it is of average intelligence and has the best of all intentions in mind. Calculating the daily data will surely stall the evolution of the project and finally, money will be lost all along the way because of the inefficiencies. I would much rather see the funding allocated to this study, to go to teams already in existence that have proven themselves in each area as being the leaders in their field of disease and let them keep solving the issue without worry lack of funding my keep them from reaching their ultimate goal at the very end. Smaller, more well thoughtout, and controlled studies with the mavericks devoted to finding solution to each disease lighting the way without the worry of funding shortages, that's what we need. lauraw@wellcon.com

I wish I was of child-bearing age so that I could participate in this study! As a teacher, I see so many children with these issues--autism, childhood obesity, injury, asthma, diabetes, neurobehavioral disorders and either being of low-birth weight or premature, and I see how these issues affect the family, academic, and social lives of these children. My own family and extended family has issues in many of these areas, and as I watch my children beginning to have children, I worry that they, too, will pass on many of these issues. Whether environmental, hereditary, or nurturing factors cause some of these problems has been what I try to ascertain as I watch my own family grow, and talk with the parents and familes that I work with.

I believe that it goes back tto the Working Class of people,where they only feed thier Kids, Fast foods,Drinks,Candy,.
When they get home after a Hard days work, they do not want to Deal with THEM ( KIDS ) I Think Life is what you make it,
and what you Believe in. and a Good part of that is How and Where you were raised. We Need to start giving our Kids,
Fruits and Vegeg.Now there is aa all Natural Funtional Beverage, to include 19 Different Fruits, and when taken, 2oz in the morning, before going to school, or to work, and 2oz at night, and this comes in a liquid form,where you drink, 4 oz is
like having 13 SERVINGS OF FRUIT A DAY,This is Great. This is why the Fruit was Placed on the Earth, Mona Vie

there is an article on CNN this am about the pollution in the San Francisco Bay Estuary in which contaminates were affecting the fish before being hatched with brain and liver dysfunction, and that 2/3 of the Bay area people drink the water from this Estuary. They went on to say that the Breast milk of Mothers in the Bay area have 100 times the normal level of polybrominate diphenyl ethers from flame retardant chemicals. How much of this is causing our children health risks... and where else is this a problem. I applaud this study especially if they can show what pollution is doing to our children and next generation leaders.

I thought the issue with ultrasound was the temp increase beyond 1.5 degrees C and for a prolonged period ( ex: 5 minutes )

This ambitious, expensive and well-intentioned study does not consider fetal ultrasound a possible risk factor for autism and autoimmune problems such as asthma and diabetes. Further, the study employs fetal ultrasound as one of the ways to assess fetal health. Animal studies conducted in the ???70s and early ???80s suggested that prenatal ultrasound could cause neurological and immunological changes in humans. If these predictions were correct, the $3.2 billion 10-year study that starts next month will not only fail to find the answers it seeks, it could possibly cause medical problems among the fetuses subjected to ultrasound examinations.