Scanning for New Evidence on the Nutrient Content of Human Milk: A Process Model for Determining Age-Specific Nutrient Requirements

by Health and Medicine Division, Committee on Scanning for New Evidence on the Nutrient Content of Human Milk, Food and Nutrition Board, et al.

Human milk is considered the biologic norm for feeding the human infant during the first 6 months of life, and it is a preferred food from 6 to 12 months. It is a complex food and exerts its biologic effects well beyond its known nutritional value; however, human milk composition and the complexity of its composition is not wholly known or understood. Thus, defining the composition of milk, as well as both the individual and combined effects of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309683440
• ISBN13: 9780309683449
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 110 Pages