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Red blood cell omega-3 fatty acids and attention scores in healthy adolescents

Red blood cell omega-3 fatty acids and attention scores in healthy adolescents

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Overall, our results suggest that DHA (reflecting its dietary intake) is associated with attention performance in typically developing adolescents. The role of dietary ALA in attention is less clear, although higher blood levels of ALA appear to result in lower impulsivity. Future intervention studies are needed to determine the causality of these associations and to better shape dietary recommendations for brain health during the adolescence period.

Red blood cell omega-3 fatty acids and attention scores in healthy adolescents https://link.researcher-app.com/CPZ4 – via Researcher (@ResearcherApp)

Early Exposure to Antibiotics Can Cause Permanent Asthma and Allergies | Rutgers University

Early Exposure to Antibiotics Can Cause Permanent Asthma and Allergies | Rutgers University

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Early exposure to antibiotics kills healthy bacteria in the digestive tract and can cause asthma and allergies, a new study demonstrates.

https://www.rutgers.edu/news/early-exposure-antibiotics-can-cause-permanent-asthma-and-allergies

Study: Men doing more family caregiving could lower their risk of suicide | EurekAlert! Science News

Study: Men doing more family caregiving could lower their risk of suicide | EurekAlert! Science News

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Men’s family caregiving, unemployment, and suicide

The multinational and multidisciplinary study, published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology by Canetto, Ying-Yeh Chen, ZiYi Cai, Qingsong Chang, and Paul Yip, offers evidence of a suicide-protective role for men who engage in family caregiving. In their study, family caregiving was defined as, for example, providing personal care or education for a child, and/or providing care for a dependent adult.

The researchers examined suicide, male family caregiving, and unemployment in 20 countries, including the United States, Austria, Belgium, Canada and Japan. Suicide rates were found to be lower in countries where men reported more family care work.

In countries where men reported more such care work, higher unemployment rates were not associated with higher suicide rates in men. By contrast, in countries where men reported less family care work, higher unemployment rates were associated with elevated male suicide rates. Incidentally, unemployment benefits did not reduce male suicide rates.

Taken together, the findings of this ecological study suggest that men’s family care work may protect them against suicide, particularly under difficult economic circumstances, Canetto said.

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/csu-smd061821.php

There Is No Evidence That Associations Between Adolescents’ Digital Technology Engagement and Mental Health Problems Have Increased – Matti Vuorre, Amy Orben, Andrew K. Przybylski, 2021

There Is No Evidence That Associations Between Adolescents’ Digital Technology Engagement and Mental Health Problems Have Increased – Matti Vuorre, Amy Orben, Andrew K. Przybylski, 2021

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And this was a warning to regulators and lawmakers focusing on commonly held beliefs about the harmful effects of technology on young people’s mental health.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2167702621994549

Effects of oily fish intake on cognitive and socioemotional function in healthy 8–9-year-old children: the FiSK Junior randomized trial | The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | Oxford Academic

Effects of oily fish intake on cognitive and socioemotional function in healthy 8–9-year-old children: the FiSK Junior randomized trial | The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | Oxford Academic

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“Oily fish dose-dependently improved cognitive function, especially attention and cognitive flexibility, and reduced socioemotional problems. The results support the importance of n–3 LCPUFAs for optimal brain function and fish intake recommendations in children.”

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/112/1/74/5855515?searchresult=1

Effects of oily fish intake on cognitive and socioemotional function in healthy 8–9-year-old children: the FiSK Junior randomized trial | The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | Oxford Academic

Effects of oily fish intake on cognitive and socioemotional function in healthy 8–9-year-old children: the FiSK Junior randomized trial | The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | Oxford Academic

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“Oily fish dose-dependently improved cognitive function, especially attention and cognitive flexibility, and reduced socioemotional problems. The results support the importance of n–3 LCPUFAs for optimal brain function and fish intake recommendations in children.”

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/112/1/74/5855515?searchresult=1

Hypothesis of mtor and AMPK in infants and children

Hypothesis of mtor and AMPK in infants and children

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According to a study conducted in the 1980’s, babies have between 2 and 28 days of no growth, then a day of strong growth.
Maybe mtor suppression is useful even in young children and is suppressed during those 2 to 28 days at which point the body switches to anabolic and AMPK suppression.
Maybe children and adults aren’t so different in regards to the importance of cycling between expression and suppression of mtor and AMPK.

We will need to confirm that study and it’s data. We would also need a study that could track mtor and AMPK in babies as they go, daily or perhaps every 2 days as the smaple interval.

Babies – a fantastic series on babies and nutrition

Babies – a fantastic series on babies and nutrition

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“Babies” talks about the process and development of human babies. It follows new families for 1 year with close observation and correlates parenting bahaviours and tactics, human society aspects, nutrition, Microbiome and much more.

I’d recommended this to anyone wishing to understand nutrition in general but, especially of course, for babies.

Check it out at the below link

https://www.netflix.com/title/80117833?s=a&trkid=13747225&t=more

Sleep habits and sleep characteristics at age 1 year in the ELFE birth cohort study – ScienceDirect

Sleep habits and sleep characteristics at age 1 year in the ELFE birth cohort study – ScienceDirect

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The results of this study seem to indicate that sleeping in the same room as parents and habits of feeding to sleep etc may contribute to lessor sleep quality in infants.

“Mean TST was 13h36min including 2h54min of naps; 20% of the infants had TST ≤12h/24h. About 46% did not present SOD or NW, 16% had frequent SODs and 22% had NW >1 night in 2. Parental presence, feeding to fall asleep and infant sleep arrangements were frequent in infants with short sleep duration (≤12h/24h), NW and SODs. Non-nutritive sucking was associated with risk of NW, SOD and TST >14h/24h. Parental room sharing was associated with NW.”

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1389945719316417

A randomised clinical trial to evaluate the safety, fit, comfort of a novel N95 mask in children | Scientific Reports

A randomised clinical trial to evaluate the safety, fit, comfort of a novel N95 mask in children | Scientific Reports

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“Air pollution, such as haze or smog, is an evolving and increasingly significant problem around the world. A wide range of hazards of chronic air pollution in children include nocturnal cough, asthma, poor performance in neurobehavioral function, negative impact in cognitive development and harmful effects on brain development1,2,3,4,5. In particular, children represent a vulnerable segment of any population. They carry more risks of long term exposure to pollution over the course of their lives and are susceptible to acquiring chronic diseases in their developing lungs6,7,8,9,10,11. Use of masks and respirators can offer protection against air pollutants. However, the commercially available disposable particulate respirators, typically certified for surgical (which may only offer some barrier against larger particles) and occupational use, are mainly designed for and studied in adults. The test standards are specified according to adult breathing conditions and fit. There are to date, no masks designed for and evaluated in children. “

A randomised clinical trial to evaluate the safety, fit, comfort of a novel N95 mask in children | Scientific Reports

Discordant transmission of bacteria and viruses from mothers to babies at birth | SpringerLink

Discordant transmission of bacteria and viruses from mothers to babies at birth | SpringerLink

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“The maternal gut microbiome significantly influences infant gut microbiome acquisition. Vertical transmission of the bacterial microbiome is substantially higher compared to vertical transmission of the virome. However, the degree of similarity between the maternal and infant gut bacterial microbiome and virome did not vary by delivery route. The greater similarity of the bacterial microbiome and virome between twin pairs than unrelated twins may reflect a shared environmental exposure. Thus, differences of the inter-generation transmissibility at birth between the major kingdoms of microbes indicate that the foundation of these microbial communities are shaped by different rules.”

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-019-0766-7