Fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS) may have potential benefits, since they exhibit many soluble dietary fibre-like properties. Foods currently available for weaning infants are generally low in fibre content and lack these potential benefits. Data documenting tolerance of FOS in weaning foods are greatly lacking. Our present objective was to evaluate the tolerance and gastrointestinal effects of FOS...

Background It is recommended for mothers to start breastfeeding their infants within the first hour after birth and exclusively breastfeed them for the first 6 months of their life. Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) has both short- and long-term benefits for both mother and infant. Main objective of this study was to establish the determinant...

OBJECTIVE Nucleotides, the building blocks of nucleic acids, are normal components of the mammalian diet. These molecules have been implicated in biologic processes, such as the stimulation of the immunologic response. Nucleotides have also been considered as conditionally essential nutrients for infant formulas. The authors evaluated the influence of dietary nucleotides on the expression of se...

To investigate breast-feeding patterns and factors encouraging early weaning, a survey was conducted in Tonalá and Tlaquepaque, two suburbs within Guadalajara's metropolitan area, in 1991. For this purpose a multiphase probabilistic sample of infants born in these areas from May 1990 through April 1991 was selected. This was done by choosing at random primary health care units in the study area...

Homo sapiens has developed during the course of over two million years. The social and physical conditions of life, the availability of milk and infant foods as well as the presence of diseases have all undergone radical transformations from the Stone Age, at first without and then with fire, to the hunter-gatherer, farmer-herder, agricultural and, now, developed societies. These changes in the...

The aim of this study was to understand the impacts SARS-CoV-2 on breastfeeding. This is an integrative literature review carried out in online databases LILACS, BDENF and MEDLINE. descriptors used search were “Breastfeeding” AND “Coronavirus” “Postpartum period”. covered period January 2021. Studies Portuguese English selected. Eleven articles met eligibility criteria composed reading summary ...

Although growth and functional maturation are essentially continuous from conception to the attainment of sexual maturity, birth and weaning are particularly critical milestones in life. Birth is associated with a change in the route of nutrient delivery to the organism and weaning requires the attainment of full locomotor function as the organism is called upon to actively seek its own food. W...