Breast really IS best: Mothers’ milk fills a child’s digestive system with essential ‘good’ bacteria

Swiss scientists found identical strains of the microbe Bifidobacterium breve and several types of ‘good’ Clostridium in both a group of babies and the breast milk they were being fed with. Good bacteria from the milk of breast-feeding mums can protect the digestive and immune system health of her baby, say scientists The strains may help establish a critical nutritional balance in the guts of infants and could be important for preventing intestinal disorders, they believe. Study leader Professor Christophe Lacroix, from the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health in Zurich, said: ‘We are excited to find out that bacteria can actually travel from the mother’s gut to her breast milk. Number of children dying from heart defects has fallen by more than 80% in the last 30 years ‘A healthy community of bacteria in the gut of both mother and baby is really important for baby’s gut health and immune system development. ‘We’re not sure of the route the bacteria takes from gut to breast milk but, we have used culture, isolation, sequencing and fingerprinting methods to confirm that they are definitely the same strains.’ The findings are published in the latest issue of the journal Environmental Microbiology. DNA tests were carried out on the breast milk of seven healthy mothers and their exclusively breast-fed babies who were up to one month old. The scientists tested faecal samples to identify bacteria in the guts of both infants and their mothers.
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Probiotics promote healthy digestive system

Flare-ups can vary from person to person, and your response depends, to some extent, on whether you have food intolerances or allergies. Eat small, frequent meals and consume plenty of water, and exercise regularly. To promote healthy gut flora, increase your consumption of fruits, legumes, whole grains and yoghurt. You may also take probiotic supplements. Supplements of L-glutamine are known to be beneficial in treating IBS. Above all, manage stress.
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Why keeping your digestive system healthy is critical

Your digestive system does this at just above room temperature, using acid that is 3 MILLION times more acidic than the rest of your body (which is mostly alkaline). Keeping it healthy will improve nutrient absorption, reduce reflux and bloating, and reduce constipation. It has detoxification functions. After all, where is bad stuff going to come out from? Poop is the preferred method for most toxins. Keeping it healthy reduces risks of disease made worse by toxicity — these include cancer, diabetes, and hypertension. Okay, so how do you know if your digestive system is working well?
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Study: Antipsychotic drugs put kids at diabetes risk

Ray , Ph.D., Vanderbilt professor of preventive medicine and co-author of the article, advised parents to ask pediatricians to try other drugs for behavioral disorders first. “My advice would to be very cautious about starting an antipsychotic,” he said. “If the child has one of these indications for one of these other medications, that means looking very carefully at alternative medication perhaps trying them first. … Then, perhaps at the end of the day it may be necessary to use an antipsychotic, but you at least will have tried the safer options.” Prior studies had indicated an increased risk for diabetes among adults who took these antipsychotic medications, but studies among younger people had not been as extensive. Weight gains of 20 to 30 pounds commonly occur when people take the drugs, Ray said. “Weight gain certainly does increase the risk of type 2 diabetes,” Ray said.
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Faulty Taste Mechanism in Diabetes Sufferers

This is the first time that abnormal control of so-called “sweet taste receptors” in the human intestine has been described by researchers. The work could have implications for a range of health and nutrition problems experienced by diabetes patients. Dr Richard Young , Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in the University of Adelaide’s Nerve-Gut Research Laboratory, says taste buds aren’t the only way the body detects sweetness. “When we talk about ‘sweet taste’, most people think of tasting sweet food on our tongue, but scientists have discovered that sweet taste receptors are present in a number of sites in the human body. We’re now just beginning to understand the importance of the sweet taste receptors in the human intestine and what this means for sufferers of type 2 diabetes,” Dr Young says. In his study, Dr Young compared healthy adults with type 2 diabetic adults.
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‘Expecting Better’ Author Challenges Conventional Pregnancy Advice

Emily Oster, PhD, isn’t an obstetrician, she’s an economist. And her new book, ” Expecting Better,” is full of recommendations that buck conventional wisdom about what you can and can’t do during pregnancyincluding consuming alcohol and caffeine. It’s both liberating and sure to raise some hackles. More on Yahoo!: Flu Vaccine Not Tied to Pregnancy Complications Oster, who specializes in health economics and teaches at the University of Chicago, was inspired to write her book when she became pregnant three years ago. “Like pretty much every other woman, I found I was facing a bunch of new decisionsfrom the big ones like prenatal testing to the little ones like whether to have a cup of coffee,” she told Yahoo! Shine.
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Elgin Escalates Assault On Mobile Pregnancy Services

Participants included 15 non-pregnant women with normal glucose tolerance (NP-NGT), 15 pregnant women with normal glucose tolerance (P-NGT), and 15 pregnant women with GDM (P-GDM). The groups were matched for age and race/ethnicity. The researchers found that P-NGT women had a significantly higher apnea hypopnea index (AHI) and more disrupted sleep as indicated by significantly higher wake time after sleep onset and microarousal index, compared with NP-NGT. Total sleep time was significantly lower and the AHI was higher for P-GDM compared with P-NGT women. The prevalence of OSA was significantly higher in P-GDM (73%) vs. P-NGT women (27%).
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Pregnancy Linked to Sleep Apnea, Especially With GDM

Mauck. Unfortunately, Elgin taxpayers are going to be paying for the Citys ongoing opposition to the rights of a charitable service that is otherwise welcomed in the community. TLCs board chairman John Juergensmeyer added, In September and October of last year, TLC wrote the City to implore it to accommodate our charitable services to young women. Had Elgin showed it cared for our services, this whole matter could have been avoided at no cost. We regret that Elgin has rejected our multiple attempts to resolve any city concerns and forced us to file this case. While they say they want to resolve our dispute, todays appeal points in the other direction. With the injunction still in place while the case goes up on appeal, TLCs mobile pregnancy services will continue to operate at the usual locations at the Evangelical Covenant Church of Elgin on Fridays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and JBs Pub & Bar on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons and may expand its mobile pregnancy services to other locations.
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Obamacare and voting rights clash over health exchanges

Some say, for instance, that offering registration through exchanges would be a boon for Democrats in reaching minorities or poor and working-class voters. Others have said letting the exchanges register voters is a backdoor attempt to “resurrect” ACORN, the much-maligned and now-defunct community group that represented low- and moderate-income families. Conservative political commentator Rush Limbaugh has said tying voting and the health law shows “the purpose of Obamacare.” “It’s about building a permanent, undefeatable, always-funded Democrat majority,” he said. Opponents of the Motor Voter Act expressed similar concerns when that measure was passed, although those fears were not borne out by registration trends in years since.
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Amid Health Law Expansion, Some States Trim The Medicaid Rolls

Paul LePage, a Republican, says his state can't afford its current Medicaid program nor take on an expanded one, even if all the costs are paid for the first three years by the federal government. LePage this year vetoed a measure passed by the legislature to expand Medicaid under the health law's provision. Supporters of the measure could not get enough votes to override his veto. Adding non-disabled individuals to our welfare program when we are failing to provide core services to thousands of disabled and elderly Mainers is unacceptable, LePage said in his veto message. In the other two states, the Medicaid cutbacks are the result of the expiration of federal waivers that allowed for demonstration programs designed to expand coverage. In Vermont, about 19,000 people will fall off the Medicaid rolls as the state ends two such initiatives geared toward helping people with incomes as high as 300 percent of the poverty level, or a little more than $34,000. Mark Larson, commissioner of the Vermont Department of Health Access, said the programs are ending to save the state dollars since those populations next year can qualify for federal assistance to buy coverage in the state exchange.
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Parts of the Digestive System

Mixing movements, like that of the stomach, combine food with digestive enzymes. Peristalsis is the process of moving food forward within the canal. This is done within the small and large intestines. The outermost layer of the alimentary canal is the serous layer, or serosa. It serves as a protective covering and secretes serous fluid so that the abdominal organs can move freely within the abdomen. Accessory Organs The digestive system also consists of accessory organs including the salivary glands, gallbladder, liver, and pancreas.
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A Pacemaker for Your Digestive System

Of course this would take time. But Kefir is so high in pro-biotics that you would not only be healing your gut from the damage but you would also be building your bodies defenses, immune system against illnesses and other medical issues that plague most of the US these days. A high percentage of what American’s eat is what is the cause of the illnesses we see today. The only way to change this is to quit eating what we eat and change our diets.
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How to heal your digestive system of damage from GMO foods (Video)

This is thought to be a habit from the wild state, the days when the dog’s ancestors had to eat their food fast. As a prevention against acute indigestion, the dog’s stomach has high amounts of hydrochloric acid to break down the chunks passed from the mouth. The dogs stomach also has a good reverse action and can regurgitate food that may be too large. The stomach juices are capable of dissolving large chunks of food and bones.
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How your dog’s digestive system works

About three months ago, they say they got a much better, or at least easier to commercialize, idea for using their technology. The chips they are now working to develop would be implanted in more ordinary ways, say, laparoscopically, would not help the heart, but rather help the digestive system. The chips can slow the emptying of the stomach, triggering feeling of fullness in obese patients, or do the opposite for people struggling with gastroparesis (delayed stomach emptying), a common side effect of diabetes. And patients could take advantage of the technology with a lot less risk than a gastric bypass. In the future, Yakovlev hopes the devices could also provide relief for patients with chronic conditions like irritable bowel syndrome and gastroesophageal reflux disease.
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Digestive health: 10 Tips for getting your digestive system back on track

What Does Your Digestive System Do?

High-fiber foods such as fruit, vegetables and whole grains also help you feel full, which can help lower your chance of overeating throughout the day. Keeping a running tab on the fiber you consume can help give you more energy. 3 Hydrate Water is one of those essential elements for a healthy digestive system. Adequate hydration gives your digestive system the moisture it needs to properly function. Also, sometimes our bodies mistake hunger for thirst, so stay hydrated to prevent unnecessary overeating. Try keeping water with lemon slices around to help boost your intake. 4 Become a frequent flyer Eat small, frequent meals throughout the day to keep your metabolism revved up, your blood sugar balanced and your energy up.
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Cleanse your digestive system the easy way by eating kitchari

Dr. Vasant Lad’s mini-Panchakarma cleanse consists mostly of eating kitchari for a few days along with ghee (clarified butter), another healing food that Ayurvedic practitioners believe increases agni, the internal fire that powers digestion and metabolism. With many years of trial and error to its credit, Ayurveda has demonstrated that simple combination to effectively detoxify the body. Since Ayurveda suggests specific diets for individual doshas — mind-body constitutional types — eating Ayurvedically inevitably translates to limited food choices, making it unpopular for those wanting access to the full range of culinary options.
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Your Digestive System

Bile acids are like detergents that dissolve grease in a frying pan. Fiber . This is the mostly indigestible food that keeps moving through the digestive system and makes up the bulk of the final waste products of digestion. Moving Food Through the Digestive System The digestive system is a series of hollow organs that follow one another from the opening at the mouth to the exit point at the anus. On the inside, the system is lined with a specialized, moist membrane called mucosa.
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Most common symptoms are that of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or constipation, abdominal pain. Most conditions cause a mix of some of these symptoms. Therefore it is very hard to diagnose with symptoms alone as these are similar in most digestive disorders. Some common digestive disorders are – Heartburn/GERD, Celiac disease, Irritable bowel syndrome. Other less common but more severe in terms of symptoms, prognosis and treatment are IBD which involves Crohn’s disease, Barrett’s esophagus, diverticulosis/diverticulitis, colon polyps. The former category of disorders require, other than medications, a lot of life style modifications which help a lot towards eliminating symptoms and giving relief.
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