The research examining the differences in infant gut microbial populations arising from
differences in human milk oligosaccharides (sugars), «Maternal Fucosyltransferase 2 Status Affects the Gut Bifidobacterial Communities of Breastfed Infants,» is published online today in the journal Microbiome, a BioMedCentral journal.
One study examined maternal dietary manipulation of fatty acid concentration and neurodevelopmental
differences in human milk.
Not exact matches
Any bovine GH that might remain
in conventional
milk is not biologically active
in humans because of structural
differences and susceptibility to digestion
in the stomach.»
Human breast
milk is roughly similar
in composition from one woman to the next, but there are significant
differences.
Two trials compared early, short - term hydrolyzed formula to exclusive
human milk feeding with no significant
difference in infant allergy or childhood cow's
milk allergy reported (35).
This module explains the important
differences between commercial formula and
human milk, highlighting the immune - modulating and protective factors
in human milk.
Additional
human studies are needed to explore how individual
differences in maternal breast
milk composition could predispose to intestinal inflammatory conditions, such as allergic disease.
Meanwhile the general term «
human milk feeding» is used by researchers and administrators to describe both mother's own
milk and donated
milk (or combinations of the two) despite the fundamental
differences in the two, according to the lead author, Paula Meier, PhD, Rush University Medical Center's director for Clinical Research and Lactation, Special Care Nursery and a Professor of Pediatrics and Women, Children and Family Nursing.
At 3 months, there were no
differences in breastfeeding rates between the 2 groups; 85.8 % of infants
in the offer - pacifier group were exclusively breastfeeding compared with 86.2 %
in the not - offered group.282 The AAP policy statement on breastfeeding and the use of
human milk includes a recommendation that pacifiers can be used during breastfeeding, but implementation should be delayed until breastfeeding is well established.283
Meanwhile the general term «
human milk feeding» is used by researchers and administrators to describe both mother's own
milk and donated
milk (or combinations of the two) despite the fundamental
differences in the two, according to the lead author, Paula Meier, PhD, Rush University Medical Center's director for Clinical Research and Lactation, Special Care Nursery and a Professor of Pediatrics and Women, Children and Family Nursing.
«But
in the last couple years there have been a handful of studies among
humans reporting
differences in milk composition between sons and daughters.
«Our findings support the idea that the nutritional content of breast
milk accounts for the
differences seen
in human IQ,» Moffitt remarked «But it's not a simple all - or - none connection: it depends to some extent on the genetic makeup of each infant.»
It is likely that these major
differences between the types of proteins
in cow's
milk vs.
human milk, and the absence of rennet
in the
human digestive tract are largely responsible for the significant gastrointestinal distress that can occur
in people who are sensitive to cow's
milk products.
There are lots of
differences between cow caseins and
human caseins, but the biggest
difference is that the major type of casein found
in human breast
milk is beta casein, and the major type found
in cow's
milk is alpha S1 casein.
Although I'm still not convinced about that protein - adiposity theory... More likely due to
difference in formula and breast
milk — possibly has to do with
milk protein on formula being mostly casein (and no enzymes to digest it) and
human milk mostly whey.
The absorption rates of individual amino acids are highly dependent on the protein source; for example, the digestibilities of many amino acids
in humans, the
difference between soy and
milk proteins [9] and between individual
milk proteins, beta - lactoglobulin and casein.