Breast feeding

 

 

 

 

Holy Quran said in

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[233] The mothers shall give suck to their offspring for two whole years, if the father desires to complete the term.

Diabetes: Breast-feeding May Help Babies and Women Against Diabetes

 

 

Babies and women may be protected against developing diabetes disease through breast feeding, according to new research. This current study states that the longer women nursed, the lower their risks of developing diabetes.

Diabetes as a medical disorder characterized by varying or persistent elevated blood sugar levels, especially due to eating, is a serious disease which symptoms are very similar for all types of diabetes.

Breast feeding is when a woman feeds a baby or a young child with milk produced from her breasts. The best thing for feeding a baby is breast milk, as experts say, if the mother does not have transmissible infections.

Although study findings are not conclusive, researchers explain that breast-feeding may change metabolism of mothers which may help keep blood sugar levels stable and make the body more sensitive to the blood sugar-regulating hormone insulin.

This theory is based on some evidence that show that in rats and humans that are breast-feeding, mothers have lower blood-sugar levels than those who did not breast-feed.

According to the study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, women who breast-fed for at least one year were about 15 per cent less likely to develop diabetes type 2 than those who never breast-fed. For each additional year of breast-feeding, there was an additional 15 per cent decreased risk.

A total of 157,000 nurses participated in the new study. They answered periodic health questionnaires and were followed for at least 12 years. During the study, 6,277 participants developed type 2 diabetes.

One of the best ways to prevent type 2 diabetes in children is to prevent childhood obesity, and recently published research suggests breast-feeding infants could help reduce the risks of both.

A study of 10- to 21-year-old patients published in the March issue of Diabetes Care, the journal of the American Diabetes Association, found that 31.3 percent who had type 2 diabetes had been breast-fed compared with 63.5 percent of nondiabetic patients.

Researchers concluded that the reason for the reduced incidence of type 2 diabetes, a form of diabetes that often accompanies unhealthy weight gain, in the breast-fed group was by reducing the risk of childhood obesity. Breast-fed babies tend to feel full sooner than those drinking from a bottle. Overfeeding among bottle-fed children has been shown to increase the amount of insulin in the baby’s blood, which can lead to weight gain.

The researchers also suspect that the chemicals found in plastic bottles and the nitrates in tap water can impair the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, which is the hormone that doesn’t work as it should in people who have diabetes.

Diabetes affects nearly 7 percent of people in the United States, and 90-95 percent have type 2 diabetes. This form of the disease used to be called “adult-onset diabetes,” as it used to only happen in older adults, 80 percent of whom were overweight.

With the rates of childhood obesity on the rise, however, more and more children and adolescents are now receiving this diagnosis. Treatment typically includes exercise; strict, permanent diet changes; or medication. Untreated, diabetes can be deadly.

We can help prevent diabetes and obesity by teaching our kids good eating habits, such as consuming fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains and lean meats, and staying away from processed junk food and fast food. We can encourage them to exercise more and spend less time sitting in front of a TV or computer.

And, there’s a lot of evidence that we can help our children get off to a healthy start through breast-feeding them in infancy. More than two decades of research have shown many benefits — lower rates of hospital admissions, ear infections, diarrhea, rashes, allergies and, now, type 2 diabetes. Plus, nursing allows for bonding between mother and child, and can help new mothers lose extra pregnancy weight by using up extra calories.

For mothers who are able to breast-feed, this natural process is just one more step we can take to help our children and the health of our nation