Vegetable Protects Baby Against Type 1 Diabetes
November 3rd 2009 -
When pregnant women eat vegetables every day, they do so not only themselves a treat, but also her unborn child. Plenty of lettuce, tomato & Co. reduced the likelihood that the child later diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, such as Swedish researchers discovered. “This is the first study that demonstrates a connection between writing vegetable consumption in pregnancy and the child’s risk for type 1 diabetes,” Hilde Brekke of the University of Gothenburg in a statement.
As part of the ABIS study (All Babies of South-east Sweden) thousands of mothers had completed questionnaires on their dietary habits during pregnancy. In addition, 5724 children aged one, two and a half and five years was taken from blood in order to examine it on towards certain auto antibodies. These immune cells destroy the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, which leads over time to a complete lack of the hormone insulin. The cells are then no longer able to absorb energy-rich sugars from the blood – the typical symptoms of type 1 diabetes. The destruction of beta cells is slow, and the auto antibodies can often be years before the outbreak of the disease detected in the blood.
That was in 191 children (three percent) in the study of the case: they had elevated levels of auto antibodies in the blood or diseased within five years of observation period were already in type 1 diabetes. A comparison was with the maternal diet before birth brought a clear result: children whose mothers during pregnancy, three to five times per week ate a serving of vegetables, showed a nearly twice as high risk of disease as children, their mother before the birth of each days had eaten tomatoes or cucumbers.
“We can not on the basis of these results to say with certainty that the vegetable itself exerts the protective effect,” says the study’s leader Brekke. The researchers have discovered, however, no other factors that could explain the found relation.
From diabetes suffer from diabetes mellitus in Europe approximately 50 million people. About five percent of them have type 1 (insulin-dependent diabetes, also known as diabetes). The disease usually begins in childhood or adolescence. Defendant be required to submit what seems a lack of insulin for life from the outside.
Tags: auto antibodies, diabetes mellitus, vegetable
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