you may find this as interesting as I.
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A NEW study claims to have found ?strong support? for the theory that too much television for small children may trigger autism.
The study ? which has sparked an angry debate in America, where it was carried out ? found a correlation between the number of hours that children younger than three spend watching television and the rates of autism in a county-by-county analysis of four states.
The study provides the latest controversial theory to explain the estimated 10-fold rise in reported cases of autism over the past 30 years.
source:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk