Posted on March 19, 2008 in Latest News
Breastfed babies are less likely to develop type 2 diabetes in later life, reports a new American study that published in the medical journal ‘Diabetes Care’, March 2008.
By seeing a strong link between lifestyle factors and diabetes and the emergency of the situation, the author of the study Dr. Elizabeth J. Mayer Davis of the University of South Carolina, Columbia, and colleagues said that:
“Dramatic increases in childhood obesity and the emergence of type 2 diabetes in youth motivate research to identify lifestyle approaches to primary prevention of both conditions.”
To investigate the factors responsible for the development of type-2 diabetes in individuals of 10 to 21 years old, the study used a subset of data from a large study.
The study was conducted on 80 adolescents with type 2 diabetes and 167 adolescents without diabetes, used as controls. It was found that breast-feeding rate was lower in subjects with type 2 diabetes as compared with the controls, at 20% versus 27% in African Americans, 50% versus 84% in Hispanics and 39% versus 78% in non-Hispanic whites.
After observing the different results in different ethnic groups the researchers said that “Renewed efforts to encourage breast-feeding in populations at high risk for type 2 diabetes may be useful.”
The findings of the study emphasize the importance of breast feeding in curbing the development of type 2 diabetes in infants. So it is important that you breast feed your child to have a diabetic free and healthy baby.
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March 31st, 2008 at 2:56 pm
It amazing how it all connected.