Research on young healthy samples suggests that low glycaemic load foods can confer benefits for cognitive performance.
Therefore, awareness of the effect of segmentation on ES may help to inform the design of foods that confer benefits for healthy weight maintenance.
We recognise that while this population is 'at risk' of pregnancy due to UPSI, the intervention of EHC will confer benefits for this presenting episode only and not the subsequent risk of unintended pregnancy if there are future episodes of UPSI.
If the paradigm proposed at the outset of the present review has validity, then it would be expected that genes conferring benefit for high-altitude performance might be related to improved outcomes in critical illness.
A recent Cochrane review concluded that "midwife-led care confers benefits for pregnant women and their babies and is recommended" while finding numerous benefits and no adverse effects.
Similarly, music and language conferred benefits for some working memory tasks, but musicians had better performance across tasks (Bidelman, Hutka, & Moreno, 2013; Fiveash & Pammer, 2014).
Screening in itself requires high attendance rates to confer benefit and this is a consideration for any future screening programme.
It clearly can confer benefit, but it depends how it is done, and for whom.
We owe a moral debt of gratitude (rather than the mere "thank you" of good manners) only to those who confer benefits on us deliberately and for the right reason, namely out of concern for our own good.
However, there is to date no supporting evidence that routine scans in early or late pregnancy confer benefits for mothers or babies if used in low-risk or unselected populations [ 4, 7].
