Breast really IS best: Mothers’ milk fills a child’s digestive system with essential ‘good’ bacteria

Digestion Foods: The Best And Worst Foods For Your Digestive System

The new research suggests that the bacteria can be transferred to a suckling baby in breast milk. Swiss scientists found identical strains of the microbe Bifidobacterium breve and several types of ‘good’ Clostridium in both a group of babies and the breast milk they were being fed with. Good bacteria from the milk of breast-feeding mums can protect the digestive and immune system health of her baby, say scientists The strains may help establish a critical nutritional balance in the guts of infants and could be important for preventing intestinal disorders, they believe. Study leader Professor Christophe Lacroix, from the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health in Zurich, said: ‘We are excited to find out that bacteria can actually travel from the mother’s gut to her breast milk. Number of children dying from heart defects has fallen by more than 80% in the last 30 years ‘A healthy community of bacteria in the gut of both mother and baby is really important for baby’s gut health and immune system development. ‘We’re not sure of the route the bacteria takes from gut to breast milk but, we have used culture, isolation, sequencing and fingerprinting methods to confirm that they are definitely the same strains.’ The findings are published in the latest issue of the journal Environmental Microbiology.
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What sort of impact is this having on our digestive system? Women are becoming increasingly uncomfortable in their guts, with problems such as bloating, wind and indigestion. If you feel uncomfortable in your gut, you are more likely to feel unhappy about your body shape and this can have a negative impact on your mood; so the implications of not looking after the digestive system are wide and very real in today’s busy lifestyle. What tips do you have for women to sit down and enjoy their meals? It can be very valuable to take a fifteen minute break, turn off the phones and technology. Take yourself away from the work desk, even turn off the home phone, so you can enjoy savouring your food in a peaceful moment with fifteen uninterrupted minutes whilst eating.
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How to have a healthy digestive system

Different nutrients from foods benefit the body in different ways, says Dr. Matthew L. Bechtold, M.D., F.A.C.G., a gastroenterologist at the Digestive Health Center at the University of Missouri – Columbia. However, even nutrients that aren’t readily absorbed by the body can be healthy — fiber, for instance, helps to ensure regular bowel movements. Fiber is the “Roto-Rooter, the Drano, of the digestive system,” King says, though she notes that it is possible to have too much.
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Kids With Type 1 Diabetes: Insulin Pumps Better?

Of the 345 patients with insulin pumps, 38 stopped using them at some point during the study: six in the first year, seven in the second year, 10 in the third year and the remainder after three years. The study authors said some children stop because they tire of the extra attention needed to manage the pump, or are concerned about the physical sight of the pump. Other children sometimes take a temporary “pump holiday” and then start using a pump again. Two U.S. diabetes experts weren’t surprised by the findings. “The current standard of insulin treatment in type 1 diabetes is multiple daily insulin-injection therapy,” said Dr. Patricia Vuguin, a pediatric endocrinologist at Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York in New Hyde Park, N.Y.
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‘Diabetes capital’ tag a burden on India’s heart

First it alters lipid metabolism, precipitates clotting in the artery and t6hen damages artery walls. The most vulnerable are those who have a family history of diabetes. For them, I would advise check-ups after the age of 35 years, which is the best way to prevent disease, said Prof Srivastava. He said when people from the vulnerable group go for preventive test, they should ensure that albumin is included in the test. The sugar test should also be considered important where fasting level should be below 110, random between 140 and 160 and the range for the 2-hour glucose test should be 180 to 200. Apart from these clinical precautions diet is another factor, which can help check the impact of diabetes on the heart. For diabetics, controlled intake of carbohydrates is one of the important factors in diet management, said Sachin Singh of Diet Mantra.
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New Risk Score Predicts 10-Year Dementia Risk for Type 2 Diabetes Patients

It seeks to understand the determinants of illness and well-being and to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care. Currently, DOR’s 600-plus staff is working on more than 250 epidemiological and health services research projects. For more information, visit http://www.dor.kaiser.org . About Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente is committed to helping shape the future of health care.
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Stepping out to stop diabetes

Study: High blood sugar, but not necessarily diabetes, raises dementia risk

Participants walk as individuals or as a team that can come in sizes of two or more. The many faces of Step Out all contribute to a community committed to doing their part to prevent and cure diabetes once and for all, including Red Striders, walkers living with type 1, type 2 or gestational diabetes. They are a reminder of why we walk. One particular Red Strider walking this year is Heather Berg, the Associations 2013 National Youth Advocate diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 10. Her earliest experience with the disease, however, came a year and a half earlier when her younger brother was diagnosed with diabetes at only 14 months old.
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Co-Workers, Families and Friends ‘Step Out’ to Stop Diabetes

The new study tracked blood sugar over time in people with and without diabetes to see how it affects their risk for the mind-destroying neurological disease. The results challenge current thinking by showing that it’s not just the high glucose levels of diabetes that are a concern, said the study’s leader, Dr. Paul Crane of the University of Washington in Seattle. “The most interesting finding was that every incrementally higher glucose level was associated with a higher risk of dementia in people who did not have diabetes,” Crane said in a statement . “It’s a nice, clean pattern” – risk rises as blood sugar does, added Dallas Anderson, a scientist at the National Institute on Aging, the federal agency that paid for the study. “This is part of a larger picture” and adds evidence that exercising and controlling blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol are a viable way to delay or prevent dementia, he said. Because so many attempts to develop effective drugs have failed, “It looks like, at the moment, sort of our best bet,” Anderson said.
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Step Out is a great place for finding new friends.” Just like Heather and other Red Striders across the country, become part of the fight to Stop Diabetes and ‘Step Out’ this year by wearing a Red Strider red hat. “Every dollar helps, meaning the more people we have on board the better,” Berg said. “As a person who has lived with type 1 diabetes for nearly a decade, it is extremely important to me to get the word out about our cause and to fundraise for research towards a cure.” Today, there are nearly 26 million children and adults in the United States who have diabetes. While an estimated 18.8 million have been diagnosed, unfortunately, 7 million people are unaware that they have the disease. Recent estimates project that as many as 1 in 3 American adults will have diabetes in 2050 unless we take steps to Stop Diabetes. Thanks to our national sponsors of Step Out: Walk to Stop Diabetes including Novo Nordisk, Cary’s Sugar Free Syrup, Equal 0 Calorie Sweetener, PureVia All Natural Zero Calorie Sweetener and Walgreens. To register, volunteer or find out more information, please visit diabetes.org/stepout or call 1-888-DIABETES.
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You need guts to be happy no matter what: The importance of a healthy digestive system for enhanced immunity

This is a two-way street: Psychology and psycho-social factors influence the physiological functioning of the gut, and a healthy strong gut can help one stay mentally agile and fit. A recent scientific study in Nutrition in Clinical Practice shows that the micro organism or gut flora living in the human intestines form a network of natural controls that regulate mood, appetite, body weight, nutrient absorption, stress and immune response. No surprise then that the human digestive tract is home to 70 percent of the immune system. Simply put, our every-day food can help or harm our mind-body health.
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How to heal your digestive system of damage from GMO foods (Video)

But Kefir is so high in pro-biotics that you would not only be healing your gut from the damage but you would also be building your bodies defenses, immune system against illnesses and other medical issues that plague most of the US these days. A high percentage of what American’s eat is what is the cause of the illnesses we see today. The only way to change this is to quit eating what we eat and change our diets. Pills never healed anything and never will, all they do is mask the problem and usually create more issues.
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Digestion Foods: The Best And Worst Foods For Your Digestive System

WORST: Caffeine Similarly to spicy foods, those containing caffeine can also trigger acid reflux, as it relaxes the esophageal sphincter — the flap that keeps what you’ve eaten down in your stomach — causing food to come back up into the esophagus, King says. What about coffee, which is high in caffeine yet always seems to help us “go?” King says coffee is powerful for triggering peristalsis — the term for movement of food through the intestines — it does contain caffeine, which means it can still cause reflux. But it could help someone who is struggling with constipation, she notes. WORST: Acidic Foods Like Soda Like spicy and caffeinated foods, acidic picks like soda can also trigger reflux, King says. WORST: Foods High In Saturated Fat Fatty foods can induce heartburn and diarrhea due to poor absorption of fat, Bechtold says. King adds that you can tell if your diet contains too many high-fat foods because your stool will float to the top of the toilet.
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