Mediterranean Diet Prevent Child When Pregnant Asthma
Diet Tips October 1st, 2009
A study published last Thursday said that the women who manage to follow his diet Mediterranean diet would say save the baby from asthma and allergies.
The doctors researchers led by Leda Chatzi, from the Department of Social Medicine at the University of Crete, Greece in 1997 had recruited about 507 women in clinical check-up content on the Mediterranean island of Menorca and give them a quiz contains questions on eating patterns in which they live.
More than six years later, they examined the children born to these mothers with six allergens to see whether they are sensitive to allergens. Result, the children of mothers who actually Mediterranean diet is not a problem with allergies.
Research subjects divided into two groups, one group (one third) consists of mothers who only Sekedarnya Mediterranean diet by consuming vegetables, olive oil, cereals, fish, nuts, and plant peas. The others (two thirds) strict Mediterranean diet.
The children of mothers who only Sekedarnya Mediteanian diet, at least three to four times more susceptible to asthma than children of mothers who undergo strict Mediterranean diet. And almost two times more at risk they suffer from allergies.
Consumption of vegetables more than eight times a week, fish more than three times a week and beans or peas more than once a week would be protected from the risk of allergies.
However, consumption of red meat more than three or four times a week instead invite the risk of allergies.
Articles published in the journal of the medical specialist to read the British Journal Thorax, showed two important kompnen Mediterranean diet: antioxidants – vitamins are very important compounds in the body to banish destructive molecules called free radicals – and unsaturated fatty acids are typically double that contained in olive oil and fish oil.
Antioxidants are known as elements that can protect against asthma attacks in children as fatty acids protect the body from the occurrence of inflammation, important factors for the emergence of asthma.
Mediterranean diet, which is also associated as a longevity diet is also equipped with intake of red wine. Red wine consumption is prohibited for pregnant women, but not included in this study.
