During the lactation state, woman's body produces high levels of prolactin hormone (milk hormone) that restraints other ovulation - triggering hormones; therefore the more often your baby nurses, the longer it may take for you to become fertile once again.
Not exact matches
And remember that the American Dietetic Association
states that «Well - planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals
during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy,
lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes.»
Source: The Role of Avocados in Maternal Diets
during the Periconceptional Period, Pregnancy, and
Lactation by Kevin B. Comerford (University of California), Keith T. Ayoob (Albert Einstein College of Medicine), Robert D. Murray (Ohio
State University) and Stephanie A. Atkinson (McMaster University).
One study supplied (Bourlieu et al)
states: «Data on the structure of human milk throughout
lactation and its evolution
during digestion is still lacking to get a basis of optimization for infant formulas».]
It is believed the hormonal
state that occurs
during lactation lends to some important health benefits for the nursing mother.
Article 12 (2)
States Parties shall ensure women appropriate services in connection with pregnancy, confinement and the post-natal period, granting free services where necessary, as well as adequate nutrition
during pregnancy and
lactation.
Although nutrition
during pregnancy and
lactation was the topic of two comprehensive documents published by the U.S. Institute of Medicine, 6,7 and guidelines for maternal nutrition have been developed by various agencies,
states, and countries, no critical scientific review or systematic consolidation of these recommendations has taken place.
Maternal diet
during pregnancy and
lactation may prime offspring for weight gain and obesity later in life, according to Penn
State College of Medicine researchers, who looked at rats whose mothers consumed a high - fat diet and found that the offspring's feeding controls and feelings of fullness did not function normally.
He does not comment on adult doses but I have never seen any evidence that adults require more fat - soluble vitamins or more essential fatty acids than children do, and in the case of essential fatty acids the cases is quite certainly the opposite, that their requirement is significant for children but extremely low to the point of infinitesimal for the adult except in certain disease
states,
during periods of growth (bodybuilding) or tissue repair (after injury or sickness) or
during pregnancy and
lactation.
The need for essential fatty acids increases
during childhood, bodybuilding, recovery from injury, chronic disease
states, pregnancy and
lactation.
The American Dietetic Association clearly
states that «well - planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals
during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy,
lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes.»