The correct diet would have a role in determining the age of arrival of menstruation. An important factor, for the health of women.
A healthy diet in the years preceding puberty is associated with the more late appearance of the first menstruation, regardless of the shape of the body (body mass index and height) of the girls. Know that what we eat can contribute to the age of arrival of the menarca It has a certain importance: the arrival of the first menstruation at an early age is in fact a risk factor for diabetes, obesity, breast cancer and diseases of the heart and blood vessels.
The right to eat healthy. The research, published in the scientific journal Human Reproductionunderlines an often neglected aspect of the right to health: guaranteeing girls and girls of all latitude and condition access to healthy meals as a fundamental condition for their present and future health. At this point, it is the need to insert lunches and breakfasts in the school menus that follow the guidelines of proper nutrition and beg the nutritional deficits in the houses with less chance.
Follow over time. The analysis was conducted by the Scientists of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle on 7,500 girls between 9 and 14 years old who were involved in the Growing Up Today Study (Guts), a scientific study conducted in the USA in two phases, in 1996 and 2004. The participants were followed until 2001 or until 2008 depending on when they had started. They had to fill in questionnaires about their diet when they joined the study and then every 1-3 years, in addition to reporting the age of the appearance of the first menstruation.
Two stairs of measurement. But on the basis of which parameters is evaluated if a diet is healthy? Scientists used Two different indices: the alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI), and the empirical dietary inflammory pattern (EDIP). The first destined more points to healthiest foods such as vegetables, legumes and whole grains and less to unhealthy ones, such as foods rich in harmful fats and salt. The second index evaluates the ability of a diet of cause inflammation: red or processed meats, energizing drinks and refined cereals are for example foods with high inflammatory potential.
Food and cycle. 93% of the girls involved in the study had the first menstruation in the years in which it was followed. The girls who in the prepaby years had eaten healthier, that is, the girls who were in 20% of higher scores than Ahei, had a probability of 8% lower to incur the menarca compared to the peers who followed the most unhealthy diet assessed with the same index.
The participants who were in 20% higher than edition scores, therefore which followed the most inflammatory diet, had a higher 15% probability to incur the first menstruation the following month, compared to the peers who were in 20% lower score, and therefore that followed a much less inflammatory diet.
Who begins well … Therefore, regardless of the shape of the body, a healthy diet in the years of late childhood-prose adolescence can be decisive for the Prevention of chronic diseasesand begins to benefit already in adolescence.
