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		<title>Taste Adjustment: Baby Food with Fish Flavor</title>
		<link>http://forwomenhealth.com/2010/08/30/taste-adjustment-baby-food-with-fish-flavor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Porridge with organic beef, bananas, carrots and chicken &#8211; even for babies, the supply of finished size. For salmon and cod, we think this country more like cat food. A recent study advocated the idea but unusual, baby food making fish taste. It should appear in the next issue of the Journal of Food Science.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Porridge with organic beef, bananas, carrots and chicken &#8211; even for babies, the supply of finished size. For salmon and cod, we think this country more like cat food. A recent study advocated the idea but unusual, baby food making fish taste. It should appear in the next issue of the Journal of Food Science.</strong><br />
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&#8220;Babies need plenty of omega-3 fatty acids for their brain development,&#8221; explained study leader Susan Brewer of the University of Illinois. &#8220;If they must change from milk to solid food, most of them do not get sufficient quantities.&#8221; In addition, the children soon adjust their taste for life &#8211; what they did not know until the fifth year, it is difficult to accept in food repertoire.</p>
<p>One hurdle for the idea could be parents, which seems fishy content of baby food with suspicion. &#8220;I thought so initially, &#8216;yuck&#8217; at the thought of baby food with fish,&#8221; says the researcher. Brewer still has its own recipe to a group of 107 parents tested. The subjects were given baby food with 27 percent of fish and those prefixed with the same amounts of meat content. &#8220;But in fact, the fish porridge would not smell fishy. Most of the subjects could not tell whether fish or meat stuck in the glass.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Need Help in Solving Our Family Problems?</title>
		<link>http://forwomenhealth.com/2010/08/04/need-help-in-solving-our-family-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As women, all of us want to have family. However when we were young, we could do everything we want. We could get good jobs. We were free to go everywhere we want. All of these things that make us feel tired when we have family to care about right now. Of course having a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>As women, all of us want to have family. However when we were young, we could do everything we want. We could get good jobs. We were free to go everywhere we want. All of these things that make us feel tired when we have family to care about right now. Of course having a family is the most beautiful thing that happens in our life but we can not ignore our feeling that sometimes we want to get free time and enjoy our time alone. Or perhaps we have problem with our relationship with our husband. If we do not solve it as soon as we can, our marriage will be in a danger.</strong><br />
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Sometimes we need help to solve our problems. We do not need to worry. As we know, we are in the era of networking and technology. By using these two features, we can get all kinds of thing we need easier. Need the best tips about our daily life as mom and women? The best online provider to answer our entire problems as mom and women is Bymoms.com. This site provides us with all kinds of information how to relax and solve the source of our <a href="http://bymoms.com/health/stress.html">Stress</a>. In this site, we can also get some tips and articles that can help us in balancing between our role as mother and employee. Therefore we do not need to worry about taking care of our family and jobs. We can do both of them.</p>
<p>Need <a href="http://www.bymoms.com/">Work from Home Moms</a>? All we need to do is visiting the site above. We will get all tips about health and beauty too. So we can take care of our family and our own healthy. For the example, have some problems with our sleep or perhaps our relationship with our husband? This site is the answer we need. </p>
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		<title>Women Would be Okay to Get Pregnant, But Have No Target</title>
		<link>http://forwomenhealth.com/2010/05/10/women-would-be-okay-to-get-pregnant-but-have-no-target/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 08:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For decades, the camp of the women were clearly divided &#8211; into those who are trying to get pregnant, and those who avoid the sex. Meanwhile, quietly made up a third group: For nearly a quarter of women would be okay to get pregnant, but they tend not to target. That is the result of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>For decades, the camp of the women were clearly divided &#8211; into those who are trying to get pregnant, and those who avoid the sex. Meanwhile, quietly made up a third group: For nearly a quarter of women would be okay to get pregnant, but they tend not to target. That is the result of a nationwide U.S. study of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.</strong><br />
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For the investigation asked the team to Julia McQuillan, 4000 women 25-45 years who were sexually active. 71 percent of them said they would not currently be pregnant, six percent were just trying to have a baby. Nearly 23 percent but said that the two options they would be in order. Of the women who still had no children, there were as many as 26 percent.</p>
<p>&#8220;The outcome radically changed our idea that women either try active to become pregnant, or not,&#8221; said study leader McQuillan. In need of the group of ambivalent women targeted advice: &#8220;If one of these women whether they wanted to have a child in the negative, the doctor goes so far assume that they also prevented,&#8221; warns McQuillanzu. In fact, these women would have but also on health issues such as alcohol consumption and folate intake are enlightened as those actively planning a pregnancy.</p>
<p>Interestingly, just gave the women who were ambivalent in the child&#8217;s question, on the question of the ideal number of children the highest number, namely an average of 3.17 children.</p>
<p>Also interesting was the finding that was similar in all three groups scored a career question, 45 percent indicated a successful career as particularly important.</p>
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		<title>Pregnancy: Victims of Abuse Often Experience Complications</title>
		<link>http://forwomenhealth.com/2010/04/09/pregnancy-victims-of-abuse-often-experience-complications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women who were sexually abused as a child should expect more frequent in a later pregnancy complications &#8211; even if they want the pregnancy. Rachel Lev-Wiesel from the University of Haifa, Israel, and colleagues presented in these women down, even years after the abuse a higher rate of high-risk pregnancies. Obviously, the pregnancy, the trauma [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Women who were sexually abused as a child should expect more frequent in a later pregnancy complications &#8211; even if they want the pregnancy. Rachel Lev-Wiesel from the University of Haifa, Israel, and colleagues presented in these women down, even years after the abuse a higher rate of high-risk pregnancies. Obviously, the pregnancy, the trauma experienced call awake again, so the researchers in a communication from the university.</strong><br />
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The three scientists examined 1830 pregnancies and divided them into those with high risk for complications and those with low risk. Among the high-risk pregnancies, the team found a higher number of women who reported traumatic experiences in their youth. Most clearly was the difference from pregnant women who were sexually abused as a child. They had the highest risk for depression, and gynecological problems during pregnancy.</p>
<p>&#8220;Even if a woman starts willingly and happily in a pregnancy, it seems as if the body the sexual act of procreation to connect to the trauma of abuse,&#8221; says Lev-Wiesel. The professor says the phenomenon of retraumatisation. The negative sentiments expressed then in physical problems. Affected women should be cared for during pregnancy by specially trained teams, suggests Lev-Wiesel.</p>
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		<title>Pregnancy: Stress Controls Infantile Immune System</title>
		<link>http://forwomenhealth.com/2010/03/23/pregnancy-stress-controls-infantile-immune-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pregnant women should protect themselves against stress, otherwise the kids have a higher risk of developing asthma later. Now, a study conducted at the Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. The research group led by Rosalind J. Wright had tested the cord blood of neonates of allergic reactions. The team found that the child&#8217;s immune system [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Pregnant women should protect themselves against stress, otherwise the kids have a higher risk of developing asthma later. Now, a study conducted at the Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. The research group led by Rosalind J. Wright had tested the cord blood of neonates of allergic reactions. The team found that the child&#8217;s immune system often overreacted when the mothers were living in a stressful environment.</strong><br />
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Wright and her team had distributed questionnaires to 557 families. They asked about family and financial problems, and violence in the environment and other stress factors. Then the group compared how the immune cells in cord blood of newborns react to different allergens. Enzymes from dust mites and some vegetable substances triggered greater allergic reaction in children whose mothers were living in a stressful environment.</p>
<p>The study authors suggest that the stress of the mother, the child&#8217;s immune system still influenced before birth. Perhaps the child should be prepared on environmental hazards that await it after birth. That the body&#8217;s defense this is hypersensitive to harmless substances that would be an unwanted side effect.</p>
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		<title>Children Do Not Cry For No Reason</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around ten percent of all babies are children cry. The parents bring the nearly nonstop crying often at the limits of their powers? mentally and physically. Why do the children up to exhaustion, the experts argue about. The explanations of conventional medicine do not help always. It is clear: Osteopaths have success with their persuasive [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Around ten percent of all babies are children cry. The parents bring the nearly nonstop crying often at the limits of their powers? mentally and physically. Why do the children up to exhaustion, the experts argue about. The explanations of conventional medicine do not help always. It is clear: Osteopaths have success with their persuasive techniques? for quick help without side effects. Crying is vital for a baby. It is ultimately the only way to signal to its environment that it needs something. Hunger, fatigue, pain and loneliness are the most common causes for the normal cries. The screaming stops when the mother has discovered through intuition, experience, or trying out the cause and fixed.</strong><br />
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In contrast with so-called cry of children. They cry, especially in the evening hours, uninhibited and hysterically for no apparent reason and can not calm down. Over-estimates of experts of every seventh to tenth baby cries a lot. Whether a child is crying too much, after the three-rule defined by Wessel: Cry a child more than three hours a day, three days a week, over a period of not less than three weeks, it is a cry baby.</p>
<p>However, the baby did not cry at all ages equal. Until the sixth week of life increases the screaming, from the fourth month it takes off again until the sixth month, the phenomenon is usually not observed. At worst, it is between the third week and fourth month. Stress that this situation does not last long and soon will pass, is for parents only a small consolation. Finally, she brings the endless cries of their mental and physical limits. And that can have consequences both for the development of a healthy parent-child relationship as well as for the health of the child. The dangerous shaking the crying child is often the result of total exhaustion of the mother.</p>
<p>In conventional medicine is often referred to as the screams Three-month colic, because the symptoms and behavior of children &#8211; a hard tummy, tightening of the legs &#8211; is reminiscent of abdominal pain. In reality, these have mostly nothing to do with bowel movements. Probably only about 10 to 15 percent of children have colic cry. The abdomen is so hard because when you scream, the abdominal muscles are tense, the bent legs belong to the normal movements of the children even in the normal, not pathological crying.</p>
<p>Treatment as Three-month colic has therefore usually with little success. Unlike the treatment with osteopaths. From osteopathic perspective on the causes of crying are often tensions or compressions in the skull, but also on the spine and pelvis, which during pregnancy has increased, primarily, however, at birth.</p>
<p>Especially with difficult births, unplanned caesar section, forceps births with suction cups or the bones of the skull to be pushed strongly and asymmetrically together. Possible consequences: the nerves are compressed or narrowed and impaired in their function or the meninges is always tense. These tensions can to unrest, discomfort or even cause pain that is the reason for the screams. </p>
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		<title>These Tips Could Save New Parents a Lot of Money</title>
		<link>http://forwomenhealth.com/2010/01/23/these-tips-could-save-new-parents-a-lot-of-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know expensive it is to be a parent, especially a first time parent. At pregg.net, a new parenting magazine, we know that first time mothers and first time dads tend to make some mistakes, which is ok, but we are here to help you avoid those silly mistakes that not only cost you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Pregnant Women Drink Alcohol</title>
		<link>http://forwomenhealth.com/2009/11/23/when-pregnant-women-drink-alcohol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some children were already hanging on the bottle before they come into the world. When pregnant women drink alcohol, can be malformations and impaired brain development, the consequences. 




Each jar was one too many, experts warn. The consequences can be life itself, for example in the form of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS, FAS) &#8211; the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Some children were already hanging on the bottle before they come into the world. When pregnant women drink alcohol, can be malformations and impaired brain development, the consequences. </strong><br />
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Each jar was one too many, experts warn. The consequences can be life itself, for example in the form of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS, FAS) &#8211; the most severe form of alcohol-related injury in the womb. </p>
<p>Physicians assume that there are sensitive periods in the effect of alcohol was particularly damaging. &#8220;Whether school or high school &#8211; can possibly decide on a single rush,&#8221; warned Dr. Renate Bergmann from the Department of Obstetrics at the Charité in Berlin.</p>
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		<title>ADHD: Folic Acid Deficiency in Pregnancy as a Cause?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A low folate levels during pregnancy appears to increase the risk that the child later developed an Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This recent study by British researchers result supports the longstanding assumption that folic acid affects the development of the nervous system in fetuses. 

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>A low folate levels during pregnancy appears to increase the risk that the child later developed an Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This recent study by British researchers result supports the longstanding assumption that folic acid affects the development of the nervous system in fetuses. </strong></p>
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<p>The scientists were at 100 expectant mothers in the 14th Week of pregnancy, the amount of folate in red blood cells measured. They also determined how much folic acid to women in the early and late pregnancy increased &#8211; both in food and from supplements. The head circumference and weight of children at birth and during childhood were recorded. When the offspring were eight to nine years old, the mothers filled out questionnaires about possible problems in the behavior of their offspring.</p>
<p>The analysis of the collected data gave a clear result: a low folic acid levels and low folic acid intake in early pregnancy increased the probability of a subsequent child&#8217;s hyperactivity and problems in dealing with peers. Moreover, were the offspring of pregnant women with low folic acid levels at birth, a smaller head &#8211; possibly a sign of slower brain growth in the womb.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our results support the hypothesis that maternal nutrition affects the development of the child writes &#8211; with serious consequences for his behavior in later life,&#8221; study author Schlotz in a statement. The new findings are especially significant for low-income families, where attention to the nutrition of pregnant women is often little and too rare to take folic acid preparations before a planned pregnancy. For an undisturbed development of the child&#8217;s nervous system from the start, experts recommend starting about two months before conception, with the use of Foläsure too.</p>
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		<title>Vegetable Protects Baby Against Type 1 Diabetes</title>
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				<category><![CDATA[Healthy Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pregnancy and Birth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto antibodies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diabetes mellitus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When pregnant women eat vegetables every day, they do so not only themselves a treat, but also her unborn child. Plenty of lettuce, tomato &#038; Co. reduced the likelihood that the child later diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, such as Swedish researchers discovered. &#8220;This is the first study that demonstrates a connection between writing vegetable [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>When pregnant women eat vegetables every day, they do so not only themselves a treat, but also her unborn child. Plenty of lettuce, tomato &#038; Co. reduced the likelihood that the child later diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, such as Swedish researchers discovered. &#8220;This is the first study that demonstrates a connection between writing vegetable consumption in pregnancy and the child&#8217;s risk for type 1 diabetes,&#8221; Hilde Brekke of the University of Gothenburg in a statement.</strong></p>
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<p>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 &#8211; 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>&#8220;We can not on the basis of these results to say with certainty that the vegetable itself exerts the protective effect,&#8221; says the study&#8217;s leader Brekke. The researchers have discovered, however, no other factors that could explain the found relation.</p>
<p>From diabetes suffer from <em>diabetes mellitus</em> 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.</p>
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