For mothers who do not breastfeed their infants the intervals between births is shortened allowing them to have more
children during their reproductive years — reducing the reproductive costs associated with being a biological rider.
Approximately 35 % of Canadians in low - income households and 14 % in middle - income households experience some form of food insecurity.1 Since poor and malnourished women find it difficult to achieve adequate nutrition, their health is
compromised during their reproductive years.
«The increases in prevalence reported herein are important because such youth with diabetes will enter adulthood with several years of disease duration, difficulty in treatment, an increased risk of early complications, and increased frequency of
diabetes during reproductive years, which may further increase diabetes in the next generation,» the researchers write.
This latest research underscores the importance of caring for a woman's obstetric and gynecological health throughout her entire life, and not only focusing on preventive health
measures during her reproductive years.»
Co-author Lubna Pal, associate professor in the section of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Yale, noted, «We found that 40 % of women in the survey believed that their ovaries continue to produce new
eggs during reproductive years.
«Gynecological
problems during the reproductive years may be a predictor of diseases, such as cancer, later in life,» said Barbara Cohn, a reproductive health scientist and director of Child Health and Development Studies at the Public Health Institute in Berkeley, Calif..
For those who don't know what it is, endometriosis is a female disorder that affects approximately 176 million girls and women (ages 12 to 60)
worldwide during reproductive years.
Quite poetically, Chinese Medicine teaches that your energetic meridians are focused on your pelvic
region during your reproductive years, and as reach toward menopause, chi starts to flow more toward your heart.
[8] Increased exposure to environmental estrogens and other environmental pollutants during fetal development, as well
as during the reproductive years, is suggested as a major reason for the tremendous rise in disorders of development and function of the male sexual system.
As for why, he said the study hints that cognitive decline associated with menopause is somehow related to «the length of time a person maintains the hormonal status they have
during the reproductive years.»