It is clearly important that we build up a more adequate idea about the nutritional requirements of such major at-risk groups as in fants plus pregnant and lactaing women. The answers are much more important than just solving existing physiological enigmas; they are necessary for meaningful maternal and child health planning.
Infant feeding in Asian [...]
How do the food intakes of while breast-fed children compare with those who used to be fed the old formulae. This is illustrated in Figure 6. There sets of dietary energy intakes(8,11,12)from breastmilk, expressed on a kg bodyweight bisis and collected over a period of 50 years,are compraed against the 1973 FAO/WHO estimates of [...]
ABSTRACT Until relative recently, human lactation was the predominant form of infant feeding in traditional areas of the developing world, whilst artificial feeding predominated in western industrialized nations. This situation in rapidly changing, and now an ever increasingly large number of mothers in countries like the United Kingdom are electing to breast-feed. These changes [...]