NU FS356 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Choline, Longitudinal Study, Sultanate Of Ifat
16 Feb 2017
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Programming: a stimulus at a particular critical period of early life that has permeant effects on structure, physiology and metabolism. Possible links to disease without breastfeeding include: o(cid:271)esity, type 2 dia(cid:271)etes, meta(cid:271)oli(cid:272) sy(cid:374)dro(cid:373)e, cvd. Recent studies suggest that the longer babies are breast fed the risk of obesity is decreased but is it the breast milk or is what we are giving them instead that is the issue. It could also be related to the habits that are developed in relation to breastfeeding. The supply and demand concept is encouraged so baby pulls off the nipple when they are finished eating where formula fed infants more often just drink until the bottle is gone. These habits transferring into later life might also have something to do with it. Barriers to these studies are the fact that: Dependent on memory and recall of the mother. Longitudinal studies (over long period of time)
