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PubMed1993

Striae gravidarum. Folklore and fact.

OBJECTIVE: To study the factors associated with the formation of striae gravidarum and the measures used by women to prevent them. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: One private and one teaching hospital in St Paul, Minn. PARTICIPANTS: Forty-eight nulliparous women at 34 to 36 weeks' estimated gestational age attending prenatal classes or tours of the labor and delivery departments. INTERVENTIONS: None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Presence of abdominal striae. RESULTS: Women with abdominal striae were significantly younger, more likely to receive state medical assistance, more likely to have hip striae, and had a greater total weight gain than women without abdominal striae. Results of diabetes screening tests and glycosylated hemoglobin levels were similar in women with and without striae. Although most women attempted to prevent striae formation, women who used oils or creams formed striae as frequently as those who did not. CONCLUSIONS: A previously reported association between increased striae and glucose intolerance, which led to the theory of adrenal cortical hyperactivity as a cause of striae gravidarum, was not confirmed by this study. Many women use creams or oils in an attempt to prevent striae formation despite their ineffectiveness.

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PubMed1993

Beer, breast feeding, and folklore.

Beer consumption by nursing women altered the sensory qualities of their milk and the behavior of their infants during breast-feeding in the short term. The infants consumed significantly less milk during the 4-hr testing sessions in which their mothers drank alcoholic beer compared to when the mothers drank nonalcoholic beer; this decrease in milk intake was not due to a decrease in the number of times the babies fed. Although the infants consumed less of the alcohol-flavored milk, the mothers believed their infants had ingested enough milk, reported that they experienced a letdown during nursing, and felt they had milk remaining in their breasts at the end of the majority of feedings. Moreover, the mothers terminated the feeds the same percentage of time on both testing days. The mechanism by which the consumption of alcoholic beer by lactating women decreases milk intake by their nurslings remains to be determined.

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PubMed2006

From folklore to fact: the rhetorical history of breastfeeding and immunity, 1950-1997.

This article examines the recent construction of human milk's immune-protective qualities as scientific fact, demonstrating that long-standing controversies about human milk's immune-protective effects have not been resolved by a particular scientific discovery. Rather, experts' consensus on how to respond to this uncertainty has been transformed, and this transformation has had as much to do with a change in the metaphor that governs interpretation of evidence about immune protection as it has with discovering new evidence about either human milk or the antibodies in it.

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Taboo topics in addiction treatment. An empirical review of clinical folklore.

This article reviews 11 taboo topics, that is, research findings that question traditional assumptions and teachings of addiction treatment. These topics include: (1) the lack of empirical support for the Minnesota Model; (2) questions about the necessity of Alcoholics Anonymous for maintaining abstinence; (3) the existence of spontaneous remission; (4) the detrimental aspects of labeling; (5) the value of addicted individuals' self-reports; (6) the lack of empirical support for the addictive personality concept; (7) cue exposure as an underutilized intervention; (8) the interactional nature of motivation; (9) the value of smoking cessation in early recovery; (10) the overuse of the addiction concept; and (11) the lack of empirical support for the disease concept of codependency. Misconceptions arise due to the lack of communication between disciplines and the experiential bias of current addiction treatment modalities. Emphasis is placed on the importance of empiricism in order to advance the addiction field beyond faith and supposition.

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