endocrine believe that breastfeeding protects against diabetes
More than 1,000 experts meet in Bilbao to study the causes that favor or prevent the appearance of this disease
Prolonged breastfeeding can avoid the appearance of the so-called diabetes-mellitus of type 1, typical of young and minors.This is believed by some of the endocrine that these days meet in the Bilbao Euskalduna Palace to study the origin of the ailment and the way of preventing it.
This type of diabetes worries specialists a lot because their diagnosis comes when the pancreas is completely destroyed, the organ whose failure triggers the disease.The situation is very different in the case of type 2 diabetes, which can be detected more early and usually appears from the age of 30.
In the appearance of type 1 diabetes it is believed that there are genetic and environmental causes.Some hypotheses, which are considered most viable, suggest that certain nutritional aspects that occur in the first measures of life and infectious processes unleashed even during pregnancy may be at the origin of the pathology.However, the time that takes place between these events and is diagnosed with the disease is so long - until 18 years - that it makes it difficult to establish the relationship between them.
The studies considered more advanced in this field have been developed in the Nordic countries.One of these works indicates that breastfeeding protects against the disease, so it recommends prolonging everything possible and reducing as far as possible - if it can be - the consumption of children's artificial milks.
Mediterranean diet
For its part, the University of Navarra has conducted an investigation that reveals that people who base their food on the traditional Mediterranean diet have up to 83% less risk of suffering from type 2 diabetes.
In this research, which appears published in the magazine "British Medical Journal", eating habits, lifestyle and health of 13,000 volunteers for four years were analyzed.The researchers discovered that those who best followed a Mediterranean diet possessed a priori more risk factors of diabetes, such as an advanced age or family history.However, surprisingly they developed it less frequently.
