Diabetes Mellitus And Pregnancy

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disease characterized by absolute or relative deficiency of insulin resulting in hyperglycemia. It has been considered a multifactorial disease which involves genetic, immunological and purchased.
The importance of the association between diabetes and pregnancy is the high maternal and perinatal risk involved. Before the discovery of insulin, maternal mortality ranged [...]

Effects On Pregnancy Of Some Dietary Components

Alcohol or its metabolite, acetaldheido possesses teratogenic, that alcoholic mothers are manifested in fetal alcohol syndrome. This syndrome is characterized by restriction in infants with pre-or postnatal growth, with involvement in the central nervous system and facial abnormalities (microencephaly, microoftalmia, underdeveloped philtrum, thin upper lip, jaw area apalaneamiento).
There is no clear information regarding the amount [...]

Smoking Can Cause Cancer

An analysis of 11 studies suggests that if one parent smoked before conception, increases the risk of the baby’s child suffering from leukemia.
Smoking snuff can cause cancer of the colon, rectum and ovary according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
“New studies provide sufficient evidence to add the colon, rectum and ovary to [...]

The Best Way to Feed The Baby (Part 1)

Breastfeeding is an instance of social mobilization is becoming more important every year. But there is both reliable, scientifically proven, and the other, which borders on myth and lies, then some true or false about the best way to feed the baby.

Breastfeeding helps you lose, naturally, the accumulated excess kilos during pregnancy.
The more often [...]