Protein nutrition, faecal flora and iron metabolism: the role of milk-based formulae |
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Authors: | BA Wharton SE Balmer HM Berger PH Scott |
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Affiliation: | Sorrento Maternity Hospital, Birmingham, UK: Academisch Ziekenhuis;Leiden, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | This paper explores the role of milk-based formulae in achieving four aspects of nutritional health in infants and toddlers: in the suckling, to mimic the amino acid metabolism and the faecal flora of a breast-fed baby; in the weanling, to achieve adequate protein intakes in later infancy and beyond and to achieve satisfactory haemoglobin concentrations in the early toddler years. Milk-based formulae have two roles in infant nutrition: as so-called breast milk substitutes and as a safety net during the weaning period; the latter role may be the more important. |
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