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Pasta during pregnancy is linked to diabetes
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From The Times
London, UK
20 September, 2018
Pasta during pregnancy is linked to diabetes
Children born to mothers who eat a lot of bread and pasta containing gluten when pregnant have a higher risk of developing type 1 diabetes, according to new research.
Gluten-free diets have become increasingly popular in recent years, although experts say there is no need for most people to avoid it. Gluten, a type of protein, is found in foods including cereals, cakes and biscuits.
Researchers from Denmark found that children of women with the highest gluten intake, of 20g or more a day, were twice as likely to develop type 1 diabetes by their mid-teens as those with the lowest gluten intake, of under 7g per day. The risk appeared to increase gradually in line with increased consumption. On average women consumed 13g of gluten per day.
Unlike type 2 diabetes, which is linked to diet and obesity, the causes of type 1 diabetes are unclear. However, the disease has become increasingly common in the western world, leading academics to start searching for potential lifestyle factors.
The study, published in The BMJ, used data from 63,529 pregnant women enrolled into the Danish National Birth Cohort between January 1996 and October 2002. The researchers took into account other factors that might have had an impact, including the mothers’ ages, weights, total calorie consumption and whether they smoked. It follows animal studies that have shown a gluten-free diet during pregnancy can almost completely prevent type 1 diabetes in offspring.
The study was observational, so cannot prove cause and effect, but the researchers said possible explanations included changes to bacteria in the foetus’s digestive system or the leakiness of their guts prompted by maternal diets.
Researchers at the National Institute for Health and Welfare in Finland said further studies were needed “to identify whether the proposed association really is driven by gluten or by something else in the grains or the diet”.
They said, however, that doctors, researchers and the public “should be aware of the possibility that consuming large amounts of gluten might be associated with an increased risk for the child to develop type 1 diabetes”.
Jenny Myers, senior lecturer in maternal and foetal health at Manchester University, said: “Women should not make radical changes to their diet based on this evidence — it is important during pregnancy to eat a balanced diet and there is no evidence currently that gluten should be excluded from the diet during pregnancy.”
Dr Myers said further studies that looked more directly at how maternal diet in pregnancy influenced childhood health were needed.
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/...betes-3fqz03qzt
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