Human Milk and Infant Formula

Vernal Packard

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780125434201
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323157834
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Public Health, Administration & Care

Human Milk and Infant Formula focuses on human milk and infant formula as the major sources of infant food. This book discusses the basic composition of human milk and explains the significant causes of variations in vitamins, minerals, and macronutrients. Comprised of nine chapters, this monograph starts with an overview of the benefits of breast-feeding with emphasis on the disease-fighting potential of mother's milk. This text then proceeds with a discussion of breast infections, contaminants of breast milk, allergic responses, and issues of drug use. Other chapters explore the formulation and processing of infant formula. This book discusses as well the emergence of milk banks that observe precautions in obtaining, storing, and pasteurizing human milk. The final chapter deals with the inability to digest lactose properly, which is commonly known as lactose intolerance. This monograph is a valuable resource for pediatricians, nutritionists, immunologists, as well as food technologists and chemists.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Human Milk and Infant Formula
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Macronutrients and Energy
• Chapter 2. Vitamins
• Chapter 3. Minerals
• Chapter 4. Immune Factors
• Chapter 5. Mammary Infections, Drugs, and Environmental Pollutants
• Chapter 6. Infant Formula Composition, Formulation, and Processing
• Chapter 7. Human Milk: Extraction, Processing, and Storage
• Chapter 8. Infant Food: Use and Misuse
• Chapter 9. Lactose: At Weaning and Beyond
• Epilogue
• Appendixes
• References
• General References
• Index
• Food Science and Technology