Index Sports and Pregnancy

Index Sports

  1. Carboloading
  2. Branched Chain Amino Acids for muscle repair
  3. Beloit College site index to sports
  4. Exercise – how exercise increases longevity by killing senescent cells
  5. Roc’s triathlon practice time

Index Pregnancy

    1. EARNEST – 5 year studies of early nutrition from 40 major research centers across 16 European countries.
    2. Science on Parenting – a special issue of Science on Parenting: 2014
    3. More to come once search command is set up this summer

Notes on link 2 – a.     Nature’s first functional food – Breast milk: It feeds helpful microbes, fights harmful ones, provides immunity, and jumpstarts a newborn’s life. b. The taste of things to come – Infants can perceive, and perhaps even learn to love – the distinct flavors of their culture’s foods while still in their mother’s womb. c. Maternal Mental illness d. Parenting from before conception

Another note: For mothers: Two cups of coffee a day doesn’t cause harm during pregnancy and breast feeding, but more may impair child’s memory. Trial with mice showed 41% fewer GABA neurons initially and memory and seizure problems later in life. …May is the riskiest month to get pregnant. Kids born in the winter are prone to health problems, perhaps because of exposure to flu while in utero. Science 341: 115