Ra 4 Food - Health and Nutritional Tips

Recent research strongly suggests a link between a pregnant woman’s diet and the child’s risk of developing allergic asthma.
The study, conducted by researchers at the National Jewish Health and Duke University Medical Centre used mice to investigate the effects of diets high in methyl-donor supplements such as folic acid.  They found that this group of [...]

Scientists have discovered a protein critical to the successful implantation of the embryo in the uterus. The protein is produced when high levels of estrogen are available, and enables the development of new blood cells that sustain the embryo.
The research has been conducted at numerous sites including the University of Illinois, Emory University, Baylor College [...]

 
New mums can pass on their love of certain foods to their babies via their breast milk, research has suggested.
 
By eating particular types of food up to an hour before feeding time, a mother essentially creates a milkshake inside her, which will give the baby the chance to become used to new flavours, according to [...]

 
If you have a poor diet while you are pregnant or breastfeeding you could cause long-term damage to your child, animal studies have found. The offspring of rats that were fed fatty, processed food had high levels of fat in their bloodstream and around major organs even after adolescence.
 
The study, by the Royal Veterinary College [...]

 
A leading academic, who will today speak at a conference in London today, claims the Pill is “outdated” and leads to more unwanted pregnancies costing the NHS £100 million a year.
 
James Trussell, of Princeton University, New Jersey, says that nearly one in 12 women who takes the Pill stand to become pregnant each year by [...]

 
Would you want your five year old child to be taught about sex? Ministers are proposing that schools teach children as young as 5 about relationships and older pupils are to receive more specific advice about pregnancy, contraception and sexually transmitted disease’s.
 
Government figures released yesterday show that in England and Wales, although the numbers of [...]

Debated for many years, it looks like finally mothers will be allowed to breast feed their children in any public place, including trains, bars and restaurants.
Later this year, laws will be introduced in parliament that will make it an offence to top a woman from breast-feeding a baby aged up to six months. At the [...]

Researchers have found that women who are stressed during pregnancy may increase the risk of asthma or other allergies.
The study by Harvard Medical School, which studied 387 babies, found higher levels of a chemical linked to allergy in the blood of children and stressed mothers. The study will be presented tho the America Thoracic Society.
It [...]

Breast feeding has been under scrutiny in recent years as to whether it improves the development and intelligence of the child.
Now researchers have found that it is actually the mothers who breast feed that are the ones who make the difference thus dispelling the myth.
The study that took place involved randomly assigning babies [...]

While there have been many studies into animals to determine if what they eat and when they eat it can influence the sex of their off-spring, a new report today seems to indicate that you are more likely to have a baby boy if you are on a High Calorie Diet at the time of [...]