Infant rats eagerly accept high concentrations of alcohol upon first exposure
...ponding author. "One way is through the milk of a breastfeeding mother who has consumed alcohol; this is likely si...iatricians in the country tell their patients that breastfeeding may be facilitated by consuming alcohol beforehand. It is also common in some parts of Latin Americ...Study detects protein in human milk linked to reduced risk of obesity
...uman milk that may explain the association between breastfeeding and reduced risk of obesity later in life. The protein is adiponectin, which is secreted by fat cells and affects how the body processes sugars and lipids -- fatty substances in the blood. It's been suggested that adiponectin is involved in the meta...Breastfeeding decreases infant mortality
...tute of Environmental Health Sciences suggest that breastfeeding can reduce the risk of death for infants in their ... year of age, researchers concluded that promoting breastfeeding can potentially prevent up to 720 postneonatal deaths in the U.S. each year. Researchers compared CD...First flavors form a lasting impression
...thor Beauchamp's long-term research program on how breastfeeding infants learn about flavors. Because breast milk transmits flavors of mothers' diets to nursing babies, breast-fed babies are exposed to flavor experiences during the nursing period. The Monell researchers suggest that this natural early flavor exp...Teenage pregnancy may put girls at risk for osteoporosis
...ermine the long-term impact of early pregnancy and breastfeeding on a girl's ability to reach peak bone mass. "By characterizing the rates of calcium absorption and bone turnover in adolescent pregnancy, this study was a critical first step towards new recommendations to insure that girls get adequate calcium to p...Breastfeeding may compensate for harmful effects of smoking during pregnancy
...ngs. Or there may be some psychological aspects of breastfeeding that might influence a child's cognitive development, they suggest. Alternatively, they suggest that the long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids contained in breast milk may promote brain development and so counteract the harmful effects of smoking on...Health benefits of training mothers in developing countries to exclusively breastfeed for 6 months
...unity-based health programmes to promote exclusive breastfeeding for six months after childbirth, conclude authors ...s issue of The Lancet. The WHO recommend exclusive breastfeeding until six months of age for infants in less-developed coun-tries; previous research has suggested th...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...the low transmission rate from mother to child via breastfeeding despite high levels of the virus in mother's milk, appears in the August 2002 issue of the Journal of Virology. Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the Zambia Exclusive Breast-Feeding Study, Boston University and Columbia Univer...Strange signals from breastfeeding
...nce over us. In the study, smells associated with breastfeeding increased feelings of sexual intimacy in childless... women were randomly chosen to sniff pads with the breastfeeding compounds, while others continued with the control scent. Each day the volunteers measured their tem...Exposure to toxin in certain foods could cause testicular cancer
...ture studies of testicular cancer "should focus on breastfeeding practices and the consumption of ochratoxin A containing foods such as cereals, pork products, milk and coffee by mothers and their male children." If all this turns out to be correct, Schwartz offers several possible solutions. Public health effor...Polyunsaturated fats implicated in rise in asthma in pre-school children
...e cases studied. Three or more older siblings and breastfeeding during the first days or weeks of life conferred protection. Not breastfeeding could account for 16 per cent of the cases, the authors suggest. The authors suggest that high polyu...Breast-fed babies less likely to be overweight children, teens
...itorial. "The increased initiation and duration of breastfeeding may also provide a low-cost, readily available strategy to help prevent childhood and adolescent obesity."...UC Davis study finds breastfeeding may protect bones in teen-age mothers
...al bone mineral density typically decreases during breastfeeding although levels are replenished once the child is ...ger decrease in bone mineral density than do adult breastfeeding mothers. The long-term effects of that decrease were unknown, but the UC Davis study shows that teen...New research shows calcium deficiency permits faster lead release from pregnant women's bones
...iated with a reduced lead level include history of breastfeeding and higher calcium intake. "We are still trying to determine whether there are health effects from these low levels," Hertz-Picciotto said. A report on the findings appears in the November issue of the Journal of Epidemiology. Co-authors are Margar...Physicians have seen a rise in the number of infants suffering from rickets
...n and principal investigator of the study. While breastfeeding is the optimal way to ensure that a child receives...amins D, A and C in liquid form to all exclusively breastfeeding infants, according to Schwartz. "All a mom has to do is request the vitamin supplements from her p...Rickets making comeback among breastfed infants, especially blacks, N.C. doctors find
...ls and certain minerals. They also determined that breastfeeding increased more than four-fold among black women an...gram between 1988 and 1998. The average length of breastfeeding among affected children was 12.5 months, and the average age at diagnosis was about 15 months, the t...The power of the mother-child bond
...t our study," he said, "is simply to indicate that breastfeeding potentially represents a source of generating alcohol-related memories." He nonetheless noted that cumulative studies "certainly emphasize the need to avoid alcohol exposure during prenatal, neonatal and early postnatal periods of development." As...Breastfeeding reduces infectious disease infant mortality
...n of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 through breastfeeding has resulted in policies that recommend avoidance of breastfeeding by some HIV-1 infected women. Because breastfeeding protects against the infectious diseases (partic......r women. Studies have shown that obese women start breastfeeding later and don't stay with it as long," Houseknecht says. "So it may be that the leptin is in the milk because in some way it is involved in lactation." Houseknecht has discovered previously that leptin circulates in the bloodstream bound to speci...