Breast feeding: early influences on later health

Breast-Feeding: Early Influences on Later Health is a new book which draws together areas of research in early lifel programming of adult health, with a unique focus on the post-natal period in terms of early life programming particularly the extent to which differences in infant feeding practices can lay an indelible imprint on metabolism and behaviour, and hence affect later function and risk of disease. This is an area where there is much less information currently available than there is for fetal programming, and the book raises many new questions and highlights numerous areas where further research is needed. The book chapters are arranged in three core sections: Chapters 1-4 lay down some of the basic biology of early life development; Chapters 5-9 examine how breast-milk and breast-feeding might ‘programme’ these processes by acting as modulators of development; Chapters 10-17 examine the epidemiological evidence that such effects do indeed exist. Has an international context and perpectiveand contains previously unpublished data from leading groups Contains synthesis and contants of special lectures on breast milk immunology and on the evolution of human lactation and complementary feeding Includes updates on HIV and breast-feeding, early breastfeeding cessation and infant mortality in low-income countries, and the measurement of trace immune factors

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-8748-6
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 428
• Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés