Kids' Anxiety Lowered by Breastfeeding

While breastfed kids were almost twice as likely to suffer from anxiety if they came from broken homes, bottlefed kids were nine-times more likely.

Kids' Anxiety Lowered by Breastfeeding

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Those warm cuddles that just naturally go with breastfeeding may be providing more than a comfy, cozy way for babies to get good nutrition.

They may also be helping the child develop coping mechanisms he can use later in life to deal with the anxiety-ridden situations we all face as we grow up.

That's the key finding from British researchers who studied the link between breastfeeding and anxiety in about 9,000 children. All of the kids were first studied as infants and then followed to age 10. At that point, researchers asked their parents about major family disruptions that could lead to anxiety. The kids' teachers were asked to rank the kids according to their levels of stress and anxiety.

Children from families where the parents had separated or divorced showed understandably higher levels of stress and anxiety. But when the researchers looked at how the kids were fed as infants -- breast or bottle -- they found significantly less anxiety among the breastfed kids. While breastfed kids were almost twice as likely to suffer from anxiety if they came from broken homes, bottlefed kids were nine-times more likely.

The investigators believe breastfeeding may simply promote closer bonds between mother and child that persist into childhood, making these children more resilient to the situations in their lives (like divorce) that create anxiety.

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SOURCE: Archives of Disease in Childhood, published online Aug. 2, 2006

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The smell of black pepper oil appears to ease swallowing difficulties in older people.....................

Pepper oil aroma helps elderly with swallowing

URL of this page: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_39340.html (*this news item will not be available after 12/28/2006)

Friday, September 29, 2006

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The smell of black pepper oil appears to ease swallowing difficulties in older people, researchers report.

Inhaling black pepper oil may thereby reduce the risk of aspiration pneumonia, which can be a major consequence of swallowing dysfunction.

Because black pepper oil is a strong appetite stimulus, Dr. Takae Ebihara, a geriatrician at the Tohoku University School of Medicine in Sendai, Japan, and colleagues theorized that inhaling it would ameliorate impairment of the swallowing reflex by stimulating olfactory centers in the brain.

The team conducted a study with residents of nursing homes who were physically handicapped, primarily due to cerebrovascular disorders. As noted in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society, the average age of the subjects was roughly 85 years.

The investigators assigned 35 patients each to inhale black pepper oil, lavender oil, and distilled water. Caregivers were instructed to have the participants smell the products, deposited on paper sticks held to the nostrils, for 1 minute immediately before each meal for 30 days.

To test the effect, swallowing was triggered by squirting distilled water through a tube into the back of the throat, and the latency time between the squirt and the swallow was measured.

After the first exposure to black pepper oil, average latency of the swallowing reflex was reduced from 17.6 seconds to 6.4 seconds, falling still further to 4.4 seconds by the end of the trial.

In the lavender oil group and the water group, latency remained essentially the same.

The ten participants with a history of aspiration pneumonia underwent brain scans before and after the study. The researchers saw that cerebral blood flow increased significantly in the area of the brain involved in central processing of initiation, motivation, and goal-directed behavior.

They conclude that "nasal inhalation of volatile black pepper oil might be useful for patients with nasofeeding tubes" and others at high risk for aspiration pneumonia.

SOURCE: Journal of the American Geriatric Society, September 2006.

SUMMARY

Black pepper oil is extracted from dried black peppercorns. As a pesticide active ingredient it is used for repelling mammalian pests such as dogs, cats, ground hogs, and squirrels. The first repellent end product containing this active ingredient is used in residential, non-food areas, such as attics, garages, and lawns. Oil of black pepper is commonly used in food, healing oils, and aromatherapy. Consequently, no adverse effects to humans or the environment are expected from the tiny amounts of this oil that will be used in pesticide products.

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The smell of black pepper oil appears to ease swallowing difficulties in older people איך להקל על בליע אצל זקנים עם בעיות

often a huge problem in old age homes..................swallowing.

if you have family who may benefit from this ,try then to by this oil from a good company like Tisserand [ you should ask for etheric oil [essential oil] from piper nigrum] and instruct the persons who are taking care.
try to send this e-mail to old age homes.
It seems to me that this simple method can make life a bit easier.

The smell of black pepper oil appears to ease swallowing difficulties in older people.....................

Pepper oil aroma helps elderly with swallowing

URL of this page: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_39340.html (*this news item will not be available after 12/28/2006)

Friday, September 29, 2006

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The smell of black pepper oil appears to ease swallowing difficulties in older people, researchers report.

Inhaling black pepper oil may thereby reduce the risk of aspiration pneumonia, which can be a major consequence of swallowing dysfunction.

Because black pepper oil is a strong appetite stimulus, Dr. Takae Ebihara, a geriatrician at the Tohoku University School of Medicine in Sendai, Japan, and colleagues theorized that inhaling it would ameliorate impairment of the swallowing reflex by stimulating olfactory centers in the brain.

The team conducted a study with residents of nursing homes who were physically handicapped, primarily due to cerebrovascular disorders. As noted in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society, the average age of the subjects was roughly 85 years.

The investigators assigned 35 patients each to inhale black pepper oil, lavender oil, and distilled water. Caregivers were instructed to have the participants smell the products, deposited on paper sticks held to the nostrils, for 1 minute immediately before each meal for 30 days.

To test the effect, swallowing was triggered by squirting distilled water through a tube into the back of the throat, and the latency time between the squirt and the swallow was measured.

After the first exposure to black pepper oil, average latency of the swallowing reflex was reduced from 17.6 seconds to 6.4 seconds, falling still further to 4.4 seconds by the end of the trial.

In the lavender oil group and the water group, latency remained essentially the same.

The ten participants with a history of aspiration pneumonia underwent brain scans before and after the study. The researchers saw that cerebral blood flow increased significantly in the area of the brain involved in central processing of initiation, motivation, and goal-directed behavior.

They conclude that "nasal inhalation of volatile black pepper oil might be useful for patients with nasofeeding tubes" and others at high risk for aspiration pneumonia.

SOURCE: Journal of the American Geriatric Society, September 2006.

SUMMARY

Black pepper oil is extracted from dried black peppercorns. As a pesticide active ingredient it is used for repelling mammalian pests such as dogs, cats, ground hogs, and squirrels. The first repellent end product containing this active ingredient is used in residential, non-food areas, such as attics, garages, and lawns. Oil of black pepper is commonly used in food, healing oils, and aromatherapy. Consequently, no adverse effects to humans or the environment are expected from the tiny amounts of this oil that will be used in pesticide products.