Choline
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Choline is a quaternary saturated amine, which means that it is a positively charged polyatomic ion which contains nitrogen as its key atom. Choline was discovered by renowned chemist A. F. L. Strecker in 1862 and was chemically synthesized four years later in 1864. It wasn't for another one hundred thirty-two years, in 1998, that it was classified by the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine in the United States as an essential nutrient.
Food sources which most medical doctors and professional health care experts consider to be amongst the best sources of choline are beef, liver, iceberg lettuce, oranges, egg yolks, soya, cauliflower, peanuts, peanut butter, grapes, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, salmon, soybeans, wheat, organ meats, milk and potatoes.
Many clinical studies seem to indicate that choline qualifies to be labeled as a "brain food". Many medical doctors and other professional health care experts feel that the proper amount of choline in an expectant mother's diet, especially during the early stages of the unborn child's development, can have a direct positive effect in enhancing the unborn child's brain development. They feel that studies seem to show that the choline works on the memory center of the unborn child's brain much in the same way that folic acid has a positive effect on the development of the neural tube of the unborn child.
Many medical doctors and other professional health care experts feel that choline also has a direct positive cardiovascular influences in the unborn child and some direct positive influences on the development of the liver of the unborn child as well. Many medical doctors and other professional health care experts have stated that clinical studies seem to indicate that these influences may continue on after the babies' births and during the early stages of their growth. It wasn't until 1998, when the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine of the United States first recognized the importance of choline as an essential nutrient, that medical doctors and other professional health care experts begin to study into the possibility that perhaps it was necessary to make sure that the proper amount of choline was included in the human diet. Up until that time it was considered that the human body manufactured enough choline on its own.
In the early 1930's there was shown to be a direct correlation between choline and insulin in the proper treatment of sugar diabetes.
Many medical doctors and other professional health care experts feel that clinical studies seem to indicate that a deficiency in choline can result in growth impairment, improper kidney functions, infertility, decreased hematopoiesis , bone abnormalities and hypertension.
