New Baby Formula Enhanced To Fight Fat And Type 2 Diabetes
How far will the correlations between diet and diabetes be stretched? Will researchers and scientists ever be able to pinpoint when the risk factors are exactly onset?
Infant formula and other baby foods that provide permanent protection from obesity and diabetes into adulthood could be on shop shelves soon.
I don’t know how I feel about giving infants a hormone to curb hunger. Leptin is that hormone. It is considered the hunger hormone and aides one in feeling satiated.
Cawthorne’s group has already demonstrated that supplementing infant rats’ diets with leptin means that they never get fat or develop diabetes.
I understand the basis behind supplementing leptin, but am left wondering if the hunger-quenching effect will wear off over time.
Providing leptin earlier enough effectively hard-wires the body’s energy balance. In fact, whether one is fat or thin may be determined before birth. Feeding the hormone to pregnant rats has been found to have a lifelong impact on their offspring’s predisposition to obesity. Animals born of leptin-treated mothers remain lean even when fed a fat-laden diet, while those from untreated dams gained weight and developed diabetes.
How far is too far? Baby formula makes me nervous,, but time will tell if it is a successful tool in “preventing” type 2 diabetes.
via Science Daily
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Sep 28, 2008 at 6:54 pm
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