Children and Diabetes

http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/290/13/1721

So I am not a mother but I still found this research paper very interesting (and by that I mean the content of the abstract). I will, of course, summarize for you. Basically if you give your infant foods containing gluten before the age of 6months you are greatly increasing their risk for Type 1 diabetes as well as numerous allergies are possible. The researchers looked at insulin, glutemic acid decarboxylase and IA-2 antibodies of children periodically from birth to age 8. The children that were breastfed had no significant increase risk of developing islet autoantibodies. However the children fed food supplementation containing gluten before 3 month had significant increases in islet autoantibody risk. Islet autoantibodys are the cells present that determine type 1 diabetes.

http://thestir.cafemom.com/toddler/117014/when_toddlers_are_exposed_to

To tie in just a big i found this article funny (mostly the pics) basically it is about toddlers who are exposed to breastfeeding and then when they are "playing" they act like they are breastfeeding with their dolls. I'm not going to say much else about it because there is no medical research behind it. Still no reason not to breastfeed because it is not "cool" because you are potentially putting your child at risk for diabetes and other allergies and disorders. As a side note I was searching for infant formulas to see what was in them and there are a number of sites talking about gluten-free formulas and curing autisim. I have not fully researched if there is a possible connection or not but definatly something to think about.

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just my rant for the day...

So when i have told you over and over and over again not to hang out with this person because you always get hurt and yet you do it over and over and over again how am i supposed to feel sorry for you when it happens AGAIN!!!! I love both of these people but why do they insist on hurting each other (well one getting hurt both knowing it will happen) ugh! why people why!!??!?!?

Second mini-rant for the day, a little information about campbell's tomato soup not much of a rant but i dont understand why the healthy request has more fat than the other two but less carbs and sodium idk i thought it was interesting so go healthy request and not the less sodium b/c it still has less sodium:

Reg. Tomato
Cal- 90
Fat-0
sodium-710
carbs- 20
protein- 2

Healthy req. Tomato
Cal- 90
Fat- 1.5
sodium- 470
carbs- 17
protein- 2

25% less sodium Tomato
Cal- 90
Fat- 0
sodium- 530carbs- 20
protein- 2

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