title: Measuring the energy spent by parturient women in fasting and in ingesting caloric replacement (Honey).
abstract: This research aims to measure the energy spending in parturient women of low gestation risk. Participants were selected randomly and submitted to fasting (n=15; Group I) or honey ingestion (n=15; Group II). Data were collected by means of capillary blood values and heart frequency monitoring. The paired t-test with a 5% significance level and Tukey's method were used in statistical analysis. The results showed that honey ingestion did not promote an overload in the mother's glucose; the lactate response demonstrated that the substrate offered was well used; the cardiorespiratory rate demonstrated good performance for both groups; the total energy spent during labor demonstrated that carbohydrate ingestion exerts significant influence, improving maternal anaerobic performance; the group which remained in fasting presented, immediately after labor, higher levels of lactate, showing the organism's efforts to compensate for the energy spent.
authors.affiliation: Undergraduate and Graduate Nursing Department, Sagrado Coração University, Brazil. crmmelo@neobiz.com.br
authors.forename: Célia Regina
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Maganha e Melo
authors.forename: José Carlos
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Peraçoli
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis*; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric; D002149:Energy Intake; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D005215:Fasting; D005260:Female; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000502:physiology; D006722:Honey; D006801:Humans; D007743:Labor, Obstetric / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D019344:Lactic Acid / Q000097:blood*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011446:Prospective Studies
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D019344:Lactic Acid