In fact, there are two types of proteins
found in human milk, called «whey proteins», and «casein proteins».
I wouldn't be concerned about the saturated
fat in human milk as it is the best available product.
The
antibodies in human milk actually increase during the child's second year of life, no doubt because they are getting into everything!
They were trying to isolate the
ingredient in human milk which stops bacteria and viruses sticking to the lining of the respiratory tract.
In addition, it was found to be significantly
reduced in human milk at 3 months postpartum in mothers whose infants developed eczema by 6 months of age (11).
A toddler's immune system isn't fully developed, and the antibodies
in human milk provide extra protection from illnesses such as cold, flu, and ear infection.
With the ever - expanding knowledge resulting from current research, commercial formula clearly can not replicate all of the valuable properties that are
inherent in human milk.
They may mention a passing caution that the type of
fats in human milk will differ depending on your diet, but it's never made into a big deal.
«In conclusion, our data - obtained using sophisticated and validated methods of analyses - strongly suggest that glyphosate does not bioaccumulate and is not
present in human milk even when the mother has detectable glyphosate in her urine,» McGuire said.
While two hundred fatty acids have been
identified in human milk lipids, with fifty metabolically active, the major fatty acids are palmitic, stearic, oleic, and linoleic with medium - chain fatty acids also present.
World renowned pediatrician, Dr. Frank Oski, of the John Hopkins school of medicine said he discovered more than 400 hundred
nutrients in human milk not available in formula.
Mid-Atlantic Mothers» Milk Bank is a non-profit milk bank that is proud to be part of the Human Milk Banking Association of North America, the experts
in human milk banking for over 30 years
«An interdisciplinary team of chemists and doctors at Vanderbilt University have discovered that some of the carbohydrates
in human milk not only possess antibacterial properties of their own but also...
Trans fatty acids
in human milk in Canada declined with the introduction of trans fat food labeling.
Hurgoiu V, Marcu A, Sopon E, Olariu M. Dynamics of the composition of
lipids in human milk during lactation.
The amount and form of radioactivity
in human milk after lung scanning, renography and placental localization by 131 I labelled tracers.
(Reaffirmed 2/1/07) In this policy statement, the AAP recommends that breastfeeding be encouraged, supported, and protected because the «Extent and duration of breastfeeding have been found to be inversely associated with risk of obesity in later childhood, possibly mediated by physiologic factors
in human milk as well as by the feeding and parenting patterns associated with nursing.»
Casein is significantly
lower in human milk, whereas it is significantly higher in cow's milk, making cow milk tough for human babies to digest, and making human milk unfit for feeding to baby cows... All mammals have some whey protein in their milk - it is merely in different compositions depending on the mammal and the needs of that species» young.
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.
Even though the unique enzymes, hormones, antibodies and immunoglobulins that are
contained in human milk simply can't be duplicated, formula manufacturers keep trying.
She noted that these proteins found at higher levels
in human milk include specific proteins that are enriched in human brain tissues, suggesting that they may be involved in neurodevelopment.
Her findings, presented at the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Conference on July 23 in Big Sky, Mont., show that glyphosate, the most used weed - killing chemical in the world, does not accumulate over
time in human milk.
In this study, even head circumferences were slightly less
in human milk fed, although cognitive indicators were better.]
A study in Nigeria found that calcium and potassium levels
in human milk varied by a factor of 2, magnesium and copper by a factor of 3, chloride levels by a factor of 4, iron and selenium by almost 5, iodine and sodium by almost 7, and zinc, which is vital to the nervous system, by over 7.15 In other words, some mothers had seven times more zinc in their milk than others.