Not exact matches
The nutritional, immunological, psychological, and general health advantages conveyed to infants have been documented for years.1 -9 Legovic, 10 listed the merits of
human breast milk as compared to artificial feeds to
include ideal nutritional content, better absorption, fewer food - related allergies, more favorable psychological development, better immunologic defenses, and a substantial economic advantage.
Other growth - promoting factors
including human milk growth factors I, II, and III (HMGF), and insulin - like growth factor (IGF - I) have also been identified in
human breast milk.
Their ads praise the virtues of
human milk but focus on how years of research inspired a mixture that
includes just a few key synthetic nutrients, present naturally in
breast milk, like DHA, ARA, prebiotics and probiotics.
There is a possibility that the intimacy of
breast feeding is important for infant development.13 However,
human milk contains biological factors that may be beneficial for mental development,31 - 34
including biologically active peptides and essential long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids.
And
breast milk in those days probably was very healthful compared to
human milk in our currently more - polluted times, which typically
includes (among other things) neurodevelopmentally - toxic dioxins in concentrations over 80 times higher than the level that the EPA has determined to be a safe dosage, and in concentrations many times higher than in formula.
The researchers expect the findings will provide a better understanding of
human breast -
milk composition and identify fundamental nutrients that should be
included in infant formula.
PowerZyme
includes the antimicrobial enzyme lysozyme, normally found in
human saliva, tears, and
breast milk.
Examples
include diethyl phthalate, a chemical found in 97 percent of Americans and linked to sperm damage in
human epidemiological studies, and musk ketone, which concentrates in
human fat tissue and
breast milk.