BREASTFEEDING - THE BEST DIET AND HEALTH CARE MEASURE
Human milk is a highly complex and dynamic mixture of numerous essential ingredients. Their specific combination enables newborns to grow healthily. Compared to non-breastfed children, breastfed infants suffer fewer and shorter infections, have different growth patterns and different gut microbiota,...
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Amaltea Medical Publishing House,
2017-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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| Summary: | Human milk is a highly complex and dynamic mixture of numerous essential ingredients. Their specific combination enables newborns to grow healthily. Compared to non-breastfed children, breastfed infants suffer fewer and shorter infections, have different growth patterns and different gut microbiota, undergo better cognitive development, and probably also have a lower risk of chronic diseases such as obesity and cardiovascular disease in later life. We know that growth in the first years of life will exert a positive influence on long-term health and neurological development. Protein is one important factor in this growth process. The infant's growth velocity decreases rapidly during the first months of life and afterwards slowly continues to decrease along with protein requirements for growth. Both the quantity and quality of protein in human milk change continuously over time. Trials suggest that infant formulas containing less (protein closer to the protein content in breast milk), but of the right quality, can support weight gain closer to that undergone by breastfed infants. On the next few pages, I would like to give you a brief overview of the scientific status quo and to present a few additional expert opinions to illustrate the current discussion. |
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| Item Description: | 10.37897/RJP.2017.4.1 1454-0398 2069-6175 |