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Breast Feeding could prevent Asthma

Scientists believe that breast feeding could protect babies against asthma triggered by allergies. Allergic asthma has soared in recent decades, most likely due to the changes in the environment. Today asthma affects more than 300 million people. But exposing infants to environmental antigens - molecules that trigger an immune system response -can reduce the likelihood of developing this condition. Similarly, airborne allergen, which are inhaled and cause the immune system to overreact, pass from mother to child through breast milk. As a result, the baby may develop a tolerance to them. Researchers at the University of Nice studied the affects of allergens on breast-feeding mice. They discovered that exposing them to an airborne allergen called ovalbumin (a chicken protein commonly used to stimulate an allergic reaction), helped prevent their offspring from developing asthma. It was efficiently transferred from the mother to the new-born through the milk, leading to immunological tolerance.

Cutting out coffee could help Diabetics

Cutting out tea and coffee could help diabetics cope with their disease a study suggests. Researchers have shown that a daily dose of caffeine raises blood sugar levels by 8 per cent, undermining the effects of drug treatment. The US findings back up a growing body of research suggesting that eliminating caffeine might be a good way to help manage Type 2 Diabetes, which usually develops in middle age.

Stress - Orexia

Modern women pride themselves on being able to juggle a career and a family while still looking good. But the drive to have it all has started to take its toll according to experts who say that a new type of eating disorder is emerging among mature women - ‘stressorexia’.

The condition affects those in their late 20s to 40s who are unwilling or unable to reduce their workload. As they become drained, anxious and stressed-out, they stop eating properly and can experience dramatic weight loss. Experts claim that stressorexia is different from the more common anorexia. Most sufferers of anorexia are younger and have emotional problems, choosing not to eat as a way of keeping control over their bodies. Many have negative feelings about themselves, such as low self-worth, extreme fear of rejection and a distorted self-image. But ‘stressorexia’ is occurring in older, motivated and intelligent women with high expectations.

It is believed that the disorder may often start with a skipped lunch due to work deadlines but can quickly worsen. But these women, who live in a world where the lines between the sexes’ traditional roles have been blurred, then begin to feel that food is the only thing they can control.

Dr Adrian Lord, a consultant psychiatrist, said: “Stressorexia is not a scientific diagnosis that a doctor would make but anecdotally its symptoms are very prevalent among women who are trying to be sexy, fashionable, slim, have a career as well as trying to be perfect mothers and wives. Some neglect to eat because they are too busy and others are just totally stressed-out - which suppresses the appetite”.

He went on to comment, “fifty years ago, women just had to be good mothers. Now they have to do everything and they can’t abdicate. As a result, they feel very anxious and this can cause them to try and keep control of their food, which can lead to drastic weight loss and cause them insidiously to slip into an anorexic type situation.”

Dr Lord explained: “It is very much a modern-day phenomenon, compounded by the blurred roles of men and women”.

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