Children of women who drank milk during pregnancy tend to be taller. The statement is from a team of nutrition experts from Iceland, Denmark and the United States.
They wanted to see if the benefits seen in the early stages of life would be increased in later years. They monitored the children of 809 Danish women in 1988 and 1989 after monitoring the amount of milk these women had consumed during pregnancy. Babies were measured and weighed at birth and again almost 20 years later.
The results, published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, show that adolescents of both sexes were generally taller than their mothers when they had drunk more than 150 milliliters of milk a day during pregnancy. By the late teens, they also had higher levels of insulin in their bloodstream, which suggests less risk of diabetes.
British scientists have also found that pregnant women can boost their babies' IQs by consuming more milk because it is rich in iodine. They analyzed more than 1,000 pregnant women and found that those who consumed the least amount of iodine (also found in other dairy products and fish) were more likely to have children with lower IQs and fewer reading skills.
Via Daily Mail
LIVE IT: Importance of Nutrition During Pregnancy (April 2024)
- 1,230
