According to a new study, air pollution exposure before birth can lead to lower intelligence quotient in children. In the study, 249 women in New York City wearing backpack air monitors for 48 hours in the last months of pregnancy. The lives of women are exposed to it at different levels of air pollution – especially from automobile, truck and bus exhaust. At the age of 5, before the start of the school, the women, the children were given IQ tests. The children are exposed to the air pollution evaluated before the birth of an average 4-5 points lower. Unfortunately, the Bill of Rights does not guarantee the right to breathe clean air.
According to the World Health Organization, mothers should breast-feed babies, then within one hour of birth and feed only breast milk for 6 months. Breast milk contains important nutrients and strengthens the immune system to fight diseases such as diarrhea and pneumonia. But in 2009 the world less than 40% of mothers breastfeed their children exclusively for such a long time – many, for they know not how to breastfeed, or because it is painful. If 90% of mothers breast fed for six months, it would be about 13% of the 10 million under-age-5 deaths per year occur. This information pregnant women need to stay informed.
According to a study in the American Journal of Epidemiology “, published in the sand digging increases the risk of diarrheal diseases by 44% in children younger than 11 years. Buried in the sand increases the risk by 27%. It seems that the top 8 inches beach sand contains high levels of E. coli and Enterococcus bacteria storm water drainage channel and animal faeces. In fact, the levels of bacteria in the sand to 40 times higher than the values in the water at the same beach. When children sand hands in their mouths, they swallow the bacteria in the form of “sandwiches”.
According to medical studies, sugar-free gum in reducing children’s cavities effectively. Now add xylitol gum makers. Besides a natural sweetener, xylitol is an anti-microbial that acts against bacteria to prevent cavities. For there is enough xylitol in chewing gum, it must be the first ingredient on the gums package, and for them to be effective, two pieces of chewed three times per day. Children in Finland chewing xylitol chewing gum for the year as part of a successful public health initiative to reduce cavities – and hopefully one day ” Finnish “, complete with holes.
