Human milk is a highly complex composite liquid of nutrients for infant growth, consisting
primarily of fat, carbohydrates, and proteins, as well as minerals, vitamins, and other …

Human milk from healthy and well-nourished mothers is the preferred form of feeding for all
newborn infants. Its uniqueness lays in the content of all nutrients necessary to support …

Breastmilk contains all the nutrients required by the newborn baby. It also contains non-
nutritional components that may promote infant health, growth, and development, such as …

International agencies and various US health organizations uniformly recommend
breastfeeding as the preferred method of infant feeding for the entire first year of life and …

The composition and volume of human milk progressively changes with the onset and
duration of lactation and can be influenced by maternal nutritional factors. Current evidence …

Human milk is considered the ideal food for newborns during the first 4 to 6 months of life. 21
Nutritionally, human milk is specifically adapted to the needs of newborn infants. 47 Also …

Human milk has many unique properties that benefit the breast-fed infant. Several of these
properties reside in the protein fraction of human milk; eg, host defense factors (such as …

The growing number of bioactive substances being found in human milk suggest the need to
attempt their categorization according to function. Two major themes that emerge from …

Many of human milk's constituents play unique dual roles: the classically recognized role
associated with most nutrients, ie the provision of enzymatic co-factors or substrates for …

This chapter will discuss the effect of maternal nutrition during lactation as it pertains to the
United States. The resurgence of breastfeeding in the 1970s, following its marked decline …