Now You Know
Is monthly research on interesting and educational topics - topics may include: Smart Foods to Eat During Pregnancy, Antitoxidant Foods and Foods Aiding in Strong Brain Development... read on to learn more.
Baby Purity is very excited to introduce our newest contributing writer, Dr. Nari Pidutti of Springs Eternal.
Baby Purity is very excited to introduce another new contributing writer, Dr. Natasha Montroy of Vancouver Island Naturopathic Clinic.
IS FOLIC ACID ENOUGH TO PREVENT CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS?
15 March 2012
Dr. Nari Pidutti
Folic acid is essential as a prenatal supplement to prevent neural tube defects such as spina bifida and anencephaly. However, folate prevents only about 70 percent of these defects. Research also points to another factor: sugar in the diet. A study done through the California Birth Defects Monitoring Program in Berkeley, California found that women who had a high glycemic index diet were twice as likely to have a pregnancy affected by a neural tube defect (NTD).
SUPERFOODS AND ANTIOXIDANTS FOODS: DO THEY MEASURE UP?
16 January 2012
Dr. Nari Pidutti
There is a lot of talk right now about superfoods. Superfoods are sometimes used to describe a food with high phytonutrient content or a food that has high concentrations of essential nutrients. Superfoods are sometimes labeled such if they are nutritionally dense. One issue right now with the term superfood is that it is not clearly defined and easily measured.
EVIDENCE INDICATES VACCINE CAUSES TYPE I DIABETES
29 October 2011
Dr. Nari Pidutti
In the latest in a series of studies by immunologist Bart Classen with co-author David Classen, published in 2003 in the Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Medicine showed that Hib vaccine, pertussis, MMR and BCG vaccines can cause IDDM (Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus or Type I Diabetes) two or more years after they are injected. A previous study published in the British Medical Journal showed that children injected with four doses of the HiB vaccine had a 26% increase in the incidence of Type I diabetes.
GOOD NUTRITION STARTS IN THE WOMB
8 August 2011
Dr. Nari Pidutti
It appears that unbalanced nutrition in pregnancy can affect its offspring forever. While the perfect maternal diet is still not established, we know that having great nutrition affects your child for life.
Nutrition that the fetus receives in the womb can affect the long term health of the offspring, long into adulthood, through a phenomenon called “metabolic programming”. This is a new field that looks at how fetal exposure and immediate post natal life nutrition affects long term development.
HONEY IS MORE EFFECTIVE THAN DEXTROMETHORPHAN FOR THE TREATMENT OF COUGHS IN UPPER RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS
18 May 2011
Dr. Nari Pidutti
A study with 139 children aged between 24-60 months who had coughing for 5 days from an upper respiratory infection were found to improve better with honey than traditional cough medicines.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: The Alarming Facts
17 April 2011
By Sydney Carlaw
THE ALARMING FACTS:
- From The Journal Pediatrics that 15% of American girls are expected to begin puberty by the age of 7 (with the number closer to 25% for African American girls)
- Over five million children ages four to 17 have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the United States and close to 3 million of those children take medication for their symptoms, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
ROTATION DIETS : How They Can Help Your Child
29 March 2011
Dr. Nari Pidutti
With the increasing prevalence of allergenic conditions in children, more researchers and clinicians are looking at how they might link with diet. Rotation diets are diets that increase variety into one’s diet that may help alleviate or reduce allergenic tendencies in some children.
BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS: One Strategy to Prevent Childhood Obesity
22 February 2011
Dr. Nari Pidutti
Canadians are in the midst of an epidemic of overweight and obesity, with obesity rates in children tripling in the last 25 years. Approximately 26% of Canadian children ages 2-17 years are currently overweight or obese.
AIRPORT XRAYS, I PREFER THE PAT DOWN
27 November 2010
By Sydney Carlaw
I recall reading a couple years ago that even one x-ray could put you at risk of cancer. Dr. Weil wrote about this in one of his books and ever since then I have been reluctant to get an x-ray, whether that be for my teeth or now with airport security.
EGG ALLERGY: Prevention Through Early Introduction?
7 October 2010
Dr. Nari Pidutti
A new study published online in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology showed that early introduction to eggs helped prevent the development of an egg allergy. Currently, parents are often being told to hold back on introducing egg in the diet until after 12 months for fear of allergies, however, this may actually increase the risk of an allergy developing.
