Only in some societies was milk other
than human milk used to feed small babies.
Not exact matches
The Functional Food Centre of Oxford Brookes University conducted a trial
using Aduna Baobab Powder and found that
human participants who consumed a
milk containing baobab had a lower blood glucose response
than those who had a control drink with no baobab.
For this reason,
milk that can be
used within 8 days of expression should be refrigerated rather
than frozen, because the antimicrobial properties of
human milk are better preserved with refrigeration.
Thus, I strongly support the critical statement «
human milk is the recommended source of nutrition for infants» in the FDA's proposed guidance, and urge a guidance revision that any breast
milk comparison claims (e.g., «closer
than ever to breast
milk») made by formula companies must also be substantiated by studies that
use a control group of exclusively breast - fed infants.
As a Prolacta Bioscience affiliated
milk bank, we collect breast
milk from qualified, donors which is then
used by Prolacta to make the only available breast
milk - based fortifier from 100 %
human milk (rather
than cow
milk) for critically ill, premature infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs).
Health and Safety Code § 1647 (1999) declares that the procurement, processing, distribution or
use of
human milk for the purpose of
human consumption is considered to be a rendition of a service rather
than a sale of
human milk.
The authors reported that researchers and quality improvement executives tracking outcomes for very low birthweight infants (those born weighing less
than 1,500 grams) have increasingly
used the general term «
human milk feeding» to refer to both MOM and DHM, seemingly ignoring the fundamental, scientific differences between the two.
The authors reported that researchers and quality improvement executives tracking outcomes for very low birthweight infants (those born weighing less
than 1,500 grams) have increasingly
used the general term «
human milk feeding» to refer to both MOM and DHM, seemingly ignoring the fundamental, scientific differences between the two.
Human breast tissue and breast
milk contain higher concentrations of iodine
than the thyroid gland itself, which contains just 30 % of the body's iodine stores.18, 36,370 Breast tissue is rich in the same iodine - transporting proteins
used by the thyroid gland to take up iodine from the blood.18, 38 The evolutionary reasons for this are clear: iodine is essential to the developing newborn brain, so the mother's body must have a direct means of supplying iodine to the nursing infant.18, 39
Note too that cow
milk is one of the less digestible forms of
milk for
humans, we
use them instead of goat (one of the best) because it's easier to get a lot of
milk from one cow
than from several goats.