All parents want their children to live happily ever after.And if happiness - the notion of the individual, the recipe for a long and healthy life, it seemed, all known for a long time.
you thought a good heredity, healthy lifestyle, proper diet, moderate exercise, fresh air, a positive attitude and lack of stress enough that the child lived for a long time?It turns out that there is - it is also important when your baby is born.
Russian scientists wife Natalya and Leonid Gavrilov, working at the Center on Aging (Centre on Aging) at the University of Chicago, as a result of his research found that it is best to give birth to future longevity.
appears to increase the chances of the child to live to 100 years old, you want to schedule births for the fall!
Gavrilova tested more than half a million Americans who were born from 1880 to 1895 years, and lived up to a very old age.
comparing centenarians favorites with their dead at an earlier age brothers and sisters, the researchers came to the conclusion that life expectancy is not affected by the same genes.Also, do not affect the health of centenarians and living conditions in adulthood - because their spouses have died much earlier.
What science can explain the fact that born from September to November live longer than other people?
First, find Gavrilova who give birth in the fall is usually best to feed women in early pregnancy, which has a positive impact on children - even after they become adults.An example is the Greek babies born in the fall and winter - they are on the whole healthier and more weigh.
Second, the scientists say that pregnant women in any case can not be hurt polio - especially in the second trimester of pregnancy, as this could harm the child's health.A peak of the epidemic of this disease usually falls on the middle and end of the summer.
In addition, according to the Gavrilova, giving birth in spring and summer, especially in hot weather, women run the risk of the baby's health: in this period, a higher percentage of preterm births, and high temperature or sudden changes can lead to the fact that the newborn as an adultage is high blood pressure.
Of course, it is likely that in the XXI century, in an era of ecological problems and fill our lives, "chemistry", the reasons for longevity born in the end of XIX century is not so relevant, and distribution of vaccines against polio change the overall picture.So whether to believe the results of these studies or not the private affair of each expectant mother.
However, it should take into account the opinion of pediatricians.Many of them believe that in countries with hot climates really useful baby born in the autumn, when the heat subsides.And here is where the winter cold and the snow falls, it is better to give birth in the spring and summer, the baby had a little bit to get stronger and harden for the winter.
