Researchers find enriched infant formulas benefit brain and heart

[Celebration]

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-enriched-infant-formulas-benefit-brain.html

University of Kansas scientists have found new evidence that infant formulas fortified with long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFA) are good for developing brains and hearts.

In the randomized, double-blind study, 122 term infants were fed one of four formulas from birth to 12 months; three with varying levels of two LCPUFAs (DHA and ARA) and one formula with no LCPUFA, and tested at four, six and nine months of age.

By simultaneously measuring the heart rate and visual attentiveness of infants while they looked at images of adult human faces, John Colombo and Susan Carlson found that infants who were fed fortified formula were more cognitively advanced and their heart rates were lower than infants who were fed formula without LCPUFA. The formula with the lowest level of LCPUFA — 0.3 percent level — was found to be sufficient to produce these benefits.

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Colombo, a neuroscientist who specializes in the measurement of early neurocognitive development, said that the findings add to the mounting evidence that these nutritional compounds positively affect brain and behavioral development.

[thereismore]

1. I am just guessing here: LCPUFA's are naturally present in mother's milk? nt

[laconicsax]

2. But don't you know? Breastfeeding is dangerous and obscene.

:sarcasm:

[izquierdista]

3. Olive oil

That's why moms at Olive Garden should dip the breast into the olive oil before feeding junior.

[trotsky]

4. Is olive oil also used to assist in circumcision healing? n/t

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Yes they are to some degree or another... Japanese women have roughly 6 times the

amount of DHA in their breastmilk than American women do.

http://www.dhaomega3.org/Other-Health-Conditions/DHA-Levels-in-Breast-Milk-Worldwide


The figure below summarizes the levels of DHA in breast milk from 9 of the countries studied as reported in this present paper as derived from a prior analysis by Yuhas et al. (Lipids, 41: 851-858 (2006)). The figure below indicates that the lowest concentrations of DHA were found in North America wherein American and Canadian breast milk levels of DHA averaged only 0.17% of total fatty acids in contrast to the highest levels found in Japan where DHA represented 0.99% of the total milk fatty acids.

[Tumbulu]

6. do you think that is from the seafood diet?

or something else?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. I think seafood diet however you should read this just to put things in perspective

Liver Defect Likely Cause of DHA Deficiency in Alzheimer's Patients, UCI Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100908171122.htm

ScienceDaily (Sep. 9, 2010) — UC Irvine researchers have discovered that markedly depleted amounts of an omega-3 fatty acid in brain tissue samples from Alzheimer's patients may be due to the liver's inability to produce the complex fat, also contained in fish-oil supplements.

[Tumbulu]

8. how interesting! thanks for the link

I wonder if dietary supplementation can intervene when livers do not produce enough of it.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

9. Absosmurflee!! You can read at:

www.martekbio.com

www.Efamol.com

www.DHADepot.com

And lastly but most importantly: www.LEF.org/protocols