The guidelines recommend breastfeeding as the best source of nutrition for most babies and, now, new researchers about the nature of breast milk and how breastfeeding can affect the health of mothers and babies.
The findings, which are presented in Nutrition 2018 - a meeting of the American Nutrition Society, which is held in Boston, United States -, point to short and long -term benefits for the mother and the baby.Among them, it should be noted that breastfeeding can help reduce the risk of the mother of type 2 diabetes after gestational diabetes and seem to protect against metabolic syndrome in adolescence and against overweight in babies.
Specifically, a study of 4,400 women in a row for more than 20 years suggests that breastfeeding for a longer period could help women diagnosed with gestational diabetes during pregnancy to reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes later in life.
Women with gestational diabetes who breastfeed for more than a year in total (for all combined children) reduced their risk of type 2 diabetes in approximately 30 percent compared to those that did not breastfeed.The research, conducted by scientists from ‘Brigham and Women’s Hospital’ and Harvard University, in the United States, suggests that the beneficial impact in the long term of breastfeeding can persist throughout the lives of older women.
On the other hand, a study by overweight Hispanic teenagers and obese with a family history of type 2 diabetes revealed that those who were breastfeeding for at least a month when they were babies were substantially less likely to have metabolic syndrome - a leader of conditions that raise the riskof heart disease and diabetes - in adolescence compared to those who were not breastfed.This protective benefit of breastfeeding was observed among those born of mothers with and without gestational diabetes during pregnancy, according to the authors, of the University of Texas in Austin, United States.
In addition, in another study of experts from the University of Delaware, the United States, the babies who earned weight quickly in the first four months of life recorded a significantly greater probability of being classified as overweight to the year of age if they fed exclusively with milk from milk from milkformula instead of being breastfed for 11 months or more.
More fat and hormones in the milk of obese mothers
The preliminary results of a new study reveal that the breast milk of obese women has higher levels of total fat, the inflammatory marker C protein reactive and hormones that include leptin and insulin compared to breast milk of women with normal weight during the firstsix months after childbirth.The implications of these differences for child growth and development are still unknown, according to the authors of the work, of the Nutrition Center for Children of Arkansas/University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, United States.
The contents of fat, carbohydrates, proteins and calories of the mother's dietwith your baby's microbiome.The work, carried out by experts from the American University of Idaho, sheds light on how the intestinal microbioma forms during the first months of life.
The researchers report that the concentration of fructose in breast milk increased and remained high for up to five hours after the women who breastfered consumed a 20 -outer soda bottle containing 65 grams of sugar (in formof high fructose corn syrup).Fructose levels in breast milk were not affected by the consumption of artificially sweetened drink that contains zero grams of sugar, according to this study by the University of Southern California, in the United States.