Metabolic syndrome predisposes individuals to developing type 2 diabetes and
cardiovascular disease (CVD). It is defined as a constellation of abnormal physical and …

Human milk is the preferred feeding for both term and preterm infants. While being
considered optimal for term infants, human milk, even from mothers delivering preterm …

Breast feeding is the best way to nurture healthy newborns of healthy mothers. A number of
studies have shown that breast feeding may protect against the later development of obesity …

Most of the major progress in understanding the unique and complex features of human
breast milk has emerged in just the past 2 decades. Since the late 1970s, key research has …

Human milk is the best food for newborn nutrition. There is no ideal composition of human
milk and also no easy way to control the complexity of its nutritional quality and the quantity …

There is an intense interest in the effects of breast-feeding on the offspring and in
understanding the mechanisms behind these effects. More than 50 papers are published …

The global drive to promote breastfeeding targeted at all 134 million infants born/year on the
planet is one of the most pervasive public health interventions. It is, therefore, critical that the …

From an evolutionary and nutritional standpoint, exclusive human milk feeding for the first 6
months of life, with continued breastfeeding for 1 to 2 years of life, is recognized as the gold …

Infant-formula-feeding is inferior to breastfeeding because human milk provides specific and
non-specific factors that have long-term consequences for early metabolism and the …

PIP: Current approaches to infant feeding have been based on the level of available
knowledge of nutritional requirements of full term and low birth weight (LBW) infants and on …