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Atheism and the brain (view source)
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*[http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/07/worlds-fattest-countries-forbeslife-cx_ls_0208worldfat.html World's fattest countries]
*[http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/07/worlds-fattest-countries-forbeslife-cx_ls_0208worldfat.html World's fattest countries]
*[http://www.todaysdietitian.com/newarchives/030612p26.shtml Traditional African diets are healthier than Western diets], Today's Nutrition</ref> See also: [[Atheism, autism and obesity]] and [[Atheism and obesity]]. Furthermore, Africa is a religious continent with high birth rates.<ref>[http://www.bible.ca/islam/islam-myths-fastest-growing.htm Christianity/Islam and Africa]</ref>
*[http://www.todaysdietitian.com/newarchives/030612p26.shtml Traditional African diets are healthier than Western diets], Today's Nutrition</ref> See also: [[Atheism, autism and obesity]] and [[Atheism and obesity]]. Furthermore, Africa is a religious continent with high birth rates.<ref>[http://www.bible.ca/islam/islam-myths-fastest-growing.htm Christianity/Islam and Africa]</ref>
==== Low rate of autism among the very religious American Amish ====
[[Image:Amish Republicans.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Amish residents wave to President George W. Bush (Lancaster, Pa., August 2006)]]
The American [[Amish]] have low autism rates which may be due to their healthy and simple lifestyle, their genetic makeup or both.
David N. Brown, who states that: "In March 2006, Drs. Kevin Strauss, Holmes Morton and others documented 9 autistic Amish children, which could raise the autism rate of the Lancaster Amish community Olmsted supposedly investigated to almost 1/5,000 which is still a fraction of the US average of 1/68.<ref>Puffenberger, EG; Jinks, RN; Wang, H; Xin, B; Fiorentini, C; Sherman, EA; Degrazio, D; Shaw, C; Sougnez, C; Cibulskis, K; Gabriel, S; Kelley, RI; Morton, DH; Strauss, KA (Dec 2012). "A homozygous missense mutation in HERC2 associated with global developmental delay and autism spectrum disorder". Human Mutation 33 (12): 1639–1646</ref><ref> Jackman, C; Horn, ND; Molleston, JP; Sokol, DK (Apr 2009). "Gene associated with seizures, autism, and hepatomegaly in an Amish girl". Pediatric Neurology 40 (4): 310–313.</ref><ref> Alarcón, Maricela; Abrahams, Brett S.; Stone, Jennifer L.; Duvall, Jacqueline A.; Perederiy, Julia V.; Bomar, Jamee M.; Sebat, Jonathan; Wigler, Michael; Martin, Christa L.; Ledbetter, David H.; Nelson, Stanley F.; Cantor, Rita M.; Geschwind, Daniel H. (10 January 2008). "Linkage, Association, and Gene-Expression Analyses Identify CNTNAP2 as an Autism-Susceptibility Gene". American Journal of Human Genetics 82 (1): 150–159</ref>
The Amish have high a fertility rate and in 2012 it was named the fastest growing faith group in the United States and was projected to grow to 1 million people by 2050.<ref>[http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2012/1130/For-Amish-fastest-growing-faith-group-in-US-life-is-changing For Amish, fastest-growing faith group in US, life is changing]</ref>
=== Atheist PZ Myers' blog audience and their reported Asperger's quotient test results ===
=== Atheist PZ Myers' blog audience and their reported Asperger's quotient test results ===