Teens Breast-fed as Infants Have Stronger Leg Muscles

Adolescents who were breast-fed as infants have stronger leg muscles and «explosive strength» than those who were not breast-fed, a new study finds.

Spanish researchers asked the parents of 2,567 adolescents about the type of feeding their children received when they were infants, and tested the muscular strength and aerobic abilities of the adolescents.

Both male and female adolescents who were breast-fed did better on a horizontal jump test than those who were not breast-fed, an indication of stronger leg muscles. And those who were breast-fed for a longer period of time had even stronger leg muscles. This was true regardless of the teens’ fat mass, height or the amount of muscle present.

«Until now, no studies have examined the association between breast-feeding and future muscular aptitude,» study author Enrique Garcia Artero, of the University of Granada, said in a news release from the university. «However, our results concur with the observations [that] other neonatal factors, such as weight at birth, are positively related to better muscle condition during adolescence.»

The study was published recently in the Journal of Nutrition.

The researchers noted previous studies have shown many other benefits for infants and children who have been breast-fed, including increased protection against childhood allergies, skin diseases, obesity and diabetes.

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Teens Breast-fed as Infants Have Stronger Leg Muscles

Adolescents who were breast-fed as infants have stronger leg muscles and «explosive strength» than those who were not breast-fed, a new study finds.

Spanish researchers asked the parents of 2,567 adolescents about the type of feeding their children received when they were infants, and tested the muscular strength and aerobic abilities of the adolescents.

Both male and female adolescents who were breast-fed did better on a horizontal jump test than those who were not breast-fed, an indication of stronger leg muscles. And those who were breast-fed for a longer period of time had even stronger leg muscles. This was true regardless of the teens’ fat mass, height or the amount of muscle present.

«Until now, no studies have examined the association between breast-feeding and future muscular aptitude,» study author Enrique Garcia Artero, of the University of Granada, said in a news release from the university. «However, our results concur with the observations [that] other neonatal factors, such as weight at birth, are positively related to better muscle condition during adolescence.»

The study was published recently in the Journal of Nutrition.

The researchers noted previous studies have shown many other benefits for infants and children who have been breast-fed, including increased protection against childhood allergies, skin diseases, obesity and diabetes.

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Breastfed infants, better muscles in teens

Infants who were breastfed were found to be in better physical condition as adolescents, researchers in Spain discovered.

Study leader Enrique Garcia Artero of the University of Granada and colleagues asked the parents of 2,567 adolescents about their child’s feeding as infants. In addition, the teens conducted physical tests to evaluate aerobic capacities and muscular strength.

The study published in the Journal of Nutrition shows the teens who were breastfed as babies had stronger leg muscles than those who were not breastfed. Additionally, muscular leg strength was greater in the teens who were breastfed for a longer period of time.

Teens who were breastfed exclusively or in combination with other types of food had better performance in horizontal jumping in both boys and girls regardless of fat mass, height of the adolescent or the amount of muscle.

The teens breastfed from three to six months had half the risk of low performance in the jump exercise when compared with those who had never been breastfed.

«Our results concur with the observations made as regards other neonatal factors, such as weight at birth, are positively related to better muscular condition during adolescence,» Artero said in a statement.

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Breastfed Infants, Better Muscles In Teens

Infants who were breastfed were found to be in better physical condition as adolescents, researchers in Spain discovered.

Study leader Enrique Garcia Artero of the University of Granada and colleagues asked the parents of 2,567 adolescents about their child’s feeding as infants. In addition, the teens conducted physical tests to evaluate aerobic capacities and muscular strength.

The study published in the Journal of Nutrition shows the teens who were breastfed as babies had stronger leg muscles than those who were not breastfed. Additionally, muscular leg strength was greater in the teens who were breastfed for a longer period of time.

Teens who were breastfed exclusively or in combination with other types of food had better performance in horizontal jumping in both boys and girls regardless of fat mass, height of the adolescent or the amount of muscle.

The teens breastfed from three to six months had half the risk of low performance in the jump exercise when compared with those who had never been breastfed.

«Our results concur with the observations made as regards other neonatal factors, such as weight at birth, are positively related to better muscular condition during adolescence,» Artero said in a statement.

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Teens Breast-fed as Infants Have Stronger Leg Muscles

Adolescents who were breast-fed as infants have stronger leg muscles and «explosive strength» than those who were not breast-fed, a new study finds.

Spanish researchers asked the parents of 2,567 adolescents about the type of feeding their children received when they were infants, and tested the muscular strength and aerobic abilities of the adolescents.

Both male and female adolescents who were breast-fed did better on a horizontal jump test than those who were not breast-fed, an indication of stronger leg muscles. And those who were breast-fed for a longer period of time had even stronger leg muscles. This was true regardless of the teens’ fat mass, height or the amount of muscle present.

«Until now, no studies have examined the association between breast-feeding and future muscular aptitude,» study author Enrique Garcia Artero, of the University of Granada, said in a news release from the university. «However, our results concur with the observations [that] other neonatal factors, such as weight at birth, are positively related to better muscle condition during adolescence.»

The study was published recently in the Journal of Nutrition.

The researchers noted previous studies have shown many other benefits for infants and children who have been breast-fed, including increased protection against childhood allergies, skin diseases, obesity and diabetes.

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Breastfed babies make stronger, healthier adolescents

A new study published in the Journal of Nutrition adds more evidence to the fact that breastfed babies end up healthier and more vibrant than babies that are not breastfed. Enrique Garcia Artero and his colleagues from the University of Granada determined that breastfeeding leads to increased muscle muscle mass, greater athletic performance, and overall improved health as children grow into adolescence.

«Our objective was to analyze the relationship between the duration of breastfeeding babies and their physical condition in adolescence,» explained Artero concerning the study. «The results suggest further beneficial effects and provide support to breastfeeding as superior to any other type of feeding.»

Artero and his team evaluated over 2,500 children, both breastfed and non-breastfed. They observed larger leg muscles in breastfed children compared to non-breastfed children, and breastfed children were also able to jump farther than non-breastfed children in a horizontal jumping test. Researchers also observed that the longer a child was breastfed, the better her or she performed physically later in life.

«Until now, no studies have examined the association between breastfeeding and future muscular aptitude,» added Artero. «However, our results concur with the observations made as regards other neonatal factors, such as weight at birth, are positively related to better muscular condition during adolescence.»

Breast milk contains a wide range of vital immunological factors that are necessary for young children to develop healthy immune systems. Without these nutrients, children are more prone to allergies, skin disorders, obesity, diabetes, and other serious illnesses. Additionally, the vital nutrients in breast milk are needed for proper brain development and intelligence formation.

Breastfeeding is also beneficial to mothers as it lowers their risk of developing both breast cancer (http://www.naturalnews.com/028469_b…) and type-2 diabetes (http://www.naturalnews.com/029631_b…).

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Entrenar el intestino

Para que el aparato digestivo funcione bien hace falta ejercitarlo. Un poco de deporte y ciertas rutinas bastan para resolver el estreñimiento, los dolores abdominales y la hinchazón, secuelas comunes de la Navidad

Casi seguro que el último de los músculos que tiene conciencia de ejercitar quien acude a un gimnasio es su intestino. Pero lo cierto es que el tubo digestivo que se extiende del estómago al recto es «un músculo que hay que entrenar y requiere orden y un cierto esfuerzo cotidiano para que funcione», expone Manuel Valenzuela, profesor de medicina de la Universidad de Granada y presidente de la Fundación Española del Aparato Digestivo (FEAD). Es necesaria la actividad física y rutinas como respetar los horarios de las comidas e ir al baño cada día a la misma hora para ayudar al tránsito intestinal.

Las molestias gástricas afectan a más de un 75% de los españoles

Estos dos grandes apartados ?ejercicio y hábitos son los que se han incorporado a la nueva pirámide del bienestar digestivo elaborada por el Programa NUSA (Nutrición y Salud) de Danone en colaboración con la FEAD. Promulga, en palabras de sus impulsores, «unos sencillos cambios en los hábitos higiénico-dietéticos» que pueden resolver la pesadez, el estreñimiento, el dolor abdominal, la sensación de hinchazón o los gases. Molestias que, según prosiguen, afectan a más de un 75% de españoles.

En la base de esta pirámide se sitúa una «buena ingesta de líquidos»: dos litros de agua a lo largo de toda la jornada. Y a partir de ahí cada piso se divide a partes iguales entre alimentación y estilos de vida. Así, la zona más ancha del triángulo (es decir, las prescripciones para todos los días) está rellena, por un lado, de fruta, cruda y mejor con piel; verduras en ensalada o cocidas; pan, pasta, arroz integrales; aceite de oliva «con moderación», y leches fermentadas con bifidus. Y, por el otro, lo que se engloba bajo la etiqueta de vida activa: escaleras en lugar de ascensor, andar al menos 30 minutos diarios. Apuesta por cocinar al vapor, al horno, a la plancha o en wok. Cada dos días aconseja comer legumbres (mejor hervidas que guisadas) y frutos secos entre horas, en el yogur o la ensalada, a los que suma ejercicio físico como bicicleta, correr o nadar, y «mejor 10 minutos todos los días que una hora a la semana». En el vértice, varios clásicos: evitar el estrés, el abuso de laxantes, el tabaco y el exceso de grasas.

Marta Olmos, nutricionista del Programa NUSA, es partidaria de la compensación: no se trata tanto de renunciar al homenaje gastronómico como de que la siguiente comida equilibre la balanza: una ensalada ligera, con hortalizas y algún fiambre suave, por ejemplo. «En lugar de quedarte sentado en una sobremesa larguísima, sal a pasear, porque así ayudarás a los movimientos intestinales», receta. ¿Más trucos? No descuidar la ingesta de agua, disminuir en lo posible el consumo de bebidas alcohólicas, que dificultan las digestiones. Comer despacio, masticar bien los alimentos, respetar los horarios de los desayunos, los almuerzos, las cenas…

Toda una planta de esta pirámide del bienestar digestivo está dedicada a concienciar sobre la conveniencia de reservar «de 10 a 15 minutos después de las comidas para ir al váter». Un buen momento es por la mañana, porque «tras el desayuno hay un aumento de la motilidad que ayuda a la deposición», aporta Valenzuela. «Hay que dedicarle tiempo», advierte. Cosa que, en general, no hacemos, según lamenta: «Nos levantamos con prisas, sin tiempo, desayunamos de pie y nos marchamos a trabajar, provocando lo que se conoce como un estreñimiento inducido que, si se alarga en el tiempo, puede convertirse en crónico». El esfuerzo de defecar fuera de horas puede provocar además divertículos o hemorroides. Las molestias digestivas, que no llegan a ser patologías, afectan más a las mujeres que a los hombres, sobre todo a las de edad madura, por su estructura muscular.

El experto recuerda que los buenos y los malos hábitos tienen efecto acumulativo: «Mantener un peso adecuado, hacer ejercicio de manera habitual, ir al retrete regularmente, todo eso hará que quien haya seguido estas recomendaciones disfrute de unos 60 años más cómodos que quien haya tenido más excesos». Según prosigue, «las personas mayores están expuestas cinco veces más que los jóvenes a desarrollar estreñimiento. En la mayoría de los casos, esto se debe a factores dietéticos, falta de ejercicio, uso de fármacos y malos hábitos intestinales. La educación en la alimentación es fundamental para el bienestar digestivo».

Se puede prevenir la aparición del estreñimiento, según insiste, a base de vida saludable y dieta mediterránea. Y evitando la contraria, la dieta «seca y grasa». Lo normal son unas cinco deposiciones por semana. «Por debajo de tres hablamos de estreñimiento», indica Valenzuela.
Regulación posfiestas

Que levante la mano quien no haya tenido ni un solo dolor de estómago por un empacho, una mala digestión, durante esta Navidad. Enhorabuena a quien la haya levantado, pero para el resto, es decir, para la mayoría, la nutricionista Marta Olmos recomienda contemplar el periodo festivo como un paréntesis que merece la pena tomarse con tranquilidad y cierto relax, aunque siendo consciente de lo que se come y sabiendo dónde están los límites. «Las dietas más permisivas con las situaciones especiales son las que funcionan mejor; las demasiado restrictivas terminan cansando», recuerda. Y una vez terminado este periodo excepcional, retomar sin más retrasos «los ritmos y las comidas normales», aconseja. «Las molestias digestivas, la hinchazón, los gases, se producen en el momento de la ingesta, pero estos 10 días de celebraciones y comidas copiosas sí que pueden haber alterado el ritmo intestinal», estima.

Para ponerlo a punto de nuevo, se acabó picotear los restos navideños, los turrones y mantecados. Se impone una vuelta a la fruta, la verdura, las legumbres. Actividad física, agua abundante, fibra. Leches fermentadas, bífidus.

Si la Navidad ha terminado con estreñimiento, no hay que estresarse y sí dedicar el tiempo suficiente para ir al baño, y todos los días, siendo constantes. «Tras un desorden total, el simple hecho de volver al ritmo normal puede ser suficiente». Por el contrario, «las llamadas dietas depurativas son un error», concluye Olmos.

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Reunión científica «Sal, agricultura y ganadería: la formación de los paisajes rurales en la Edad Media»

  • Los próximos días 17, 18 y 19 de Enero de 2011 se celebrará en La Malaha (Granada), una reunión científica que lleva por título: Sal, agricultura y ganadería: la formación de los paisajes rurales en la Edad Media.
  • Organizan: el grupo de investigación THARG.
  • Colaboran: La Universidad de Granada y el Ayuntamiento de La Malaha.
  • Lugar de celebración: Ayuntamiento de La Malaha.
  • Incripción gratuita. Se expedirá el correspondiente certificado.
  • Inscripción, información y contacto: svillarm@ugr.es

Programa:

17 de enero de 2011

  • 17:00 h Antonio MALPICA CUELLO: «Organización del territorio y estructuras económicas en la frontera nororiental del reino de Granada: sal, ganadería y agricultura»
  • 18:00 h Eva Mª ALCÁZAR HERNÁNDEZ: «Producción y consumo de sal en Jaén durante la Edad Media: Estado de la cuestión y perspectivas futuras de análisis»
  • 18:30 h Leonardo SOLER MILLA: «El aprovechamiento de los recursos naturales: producción y comercialización de sal en el Mediodía valenciano; (ss. XIII-XVI)»
  • 19:00 h Debate

18 de enero de 2011

  • 11:00 h Jesús BRUFAL SUCARRAT: «La sal y la ganadería en la configuración del paisaje andalusí leridano»
  • 11:20 h Bilal SARR MARROCO: «La sal en Bilad al-Sudan»
  • 11:40 h Pausa
  • 12 h. Luca MATTEI: «Espacios de regadío en área de montaña. El caso de los montes occidentales de Granada».
  • 12 h Debate
  • 17.00 h Visita a La Malaha guiada por Emilio Rodríguez Villegas.

19 de enero de 2011

  • 10:00 h Guillermo GARCÍA-CONTRERAS RUIZ: «”Et cum salinis”: Las salinas del norte de Guadalajara en época medieval»
  • 10:20 h Luis MARTÍNEZ VÁZQUEZ: «Entre la vega y la sierra de Granada.

Los paisajes productivos y la producción de paisajes en la Baja Edad Media»

  • 10:40 Pausa
  • 11 h Sonia VILLAR MAÑAS: «El Quempe habitado y explotado: alquerías y

recursos naturales en época andalusí»

  • 11:20 h José Antonio NARVÁEZ SÁNCHEZ «El espacio forestal tras la conquista, Las dehesas de Granada a través de los documentos monacales de la Cartuja y San Jerónimo»
  • 11:40 h Debate
  • 17 h. Recorrido por el Quempe guiados por Sonia Villar Mañas


Teens who were breastfed at birth have stronger leg muscles

A new study appears to have found yet another amazing benefit of breastfeeding – it improves the physical condition of future adolescents.

It showed that adolescents who are breast fed at birth have stronger leg muscles than those who received artificial milk. Moreover, muscular leg strength was greater in those who had been breastfed for a longer period of time.

Enrique Garcia Artero, lead author of the study and a researcher at the University of Granada, wanted to find out whether adolescents benefited from having been breastfed as newborns.

His team especially wanted to know whether there was a relationship between the duration of breastfeeding babies and their physical condition in adolescence.

The researchers interviewed the parents of 2,567 adolescents about the type of feeding their children received at birth and the time this lasted.

They also tested the adolescents to evaluate several abilities such as aerobic capacities and their muscular strength.

They found that the kids who had been breastfed as infants had stronger legs than the kids who were not. Also, those who had breastfed longer had greater muscle strength than those who weaned earlier.

Even those who were nursed well performed better at horizontal jumping tasks, regardless of fat mass, muscle mass or height. Those who had been breastfeed at least three months failed half as much in the jumping tests as those who had not been breastfed at all.

«Until now, no studies have examined the association between breastfeeding and future muscular aptitude,» said Artero.

«However, our results concur with the observations made as regards other neonatal factors, such as weight at birth, are positively related to better muscular condition during adolescence,» he added.

The study is published in the latest issue of the Journal of Nutrition

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Breastfeeding improves teens’ muscles

Breastfeeding is already widely known to produce many health benefits, ranging from better immunity to a reduced risk of sudden infant death syndrome (cot death). Now a new study has found that adolescents who were breastfed as babies have stronger leg muscles than those who were fed formula milk.

Spanish researchers set out to analyse ‘the relationship between the duration of breastfeeding babies and their physical condition in adolescence’. They asked the parents of 2,567 adolescents about the type of feeding their children received at birth and the time this lasted.

The adolescents also carried out physical tests in order to evaluate several abilities such as aerobic capacities and muscular strength.

The study found that those who were breastfed as babies had stronger leg muscles than those who were not breastfed. Moreover, muscular leg strength was greater in those who had been breastfed for a longer period of time.

Furthermore, this type of feeding, either exclusively or in combination with other types of food, was associated with a better performance in horizontal jumping by boys and girls regardless of other factors such as fat mass, height of the adolescent or the amount of muscle.

The researchers noted that adolescents who were breastfed from three to five months, or for more than six months, had half the risk of low performance in the jump exercise when compared with those who had never been breastfed.

«Until now, no studies have examined the association between breastfeeding and future muscular aptitude. However, our results, which concur with the observations made as regards other neonatal factors, such as weight at birth, are positively related to better muscular condition during adolescence,» they said.

The team from the University of Granada added that the results ‘suggest further beneficial effects and provide support to breastfeeding as superior to any other type of feeding’.

Details of these findings are published in the Journal of Nutrition.

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