Low-income mothers with infants are struggling with food insecurity, which can lead to long-term health impacts for both mothers and children.
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An infant nutrition expert explains the efforts to ensure there is enough baby formula for US consumption and the differences between domestic and imported produce.
An infant nutrition expert explains what is behind the current formula shortage and what can be done to support hard-pressed parents.
Kenya wants parents to be able to make more informed choices about feeding their babies.
With the high cost of infant formula, food-insecure mothers who cannot breastfeed are struggling to feed their babies.
Companies are popping up selling expressed breast milk for profit.
There is immense interest in understanding whether potentially protective SARS-CoV-2 antibodies are provided to the baby via breast milk. This is what we know so far.
Prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding has increased across all countries but few are likely to meet the 2030 goal of 70%.
Around the globe, 823,000 child deaths could be prevented annually with appropriate breastfeeding. Formula makers continue to defy a 40-year-old international code on marketing their product.
New European laws aimed at regulating trade in human milk products could be used to target person-to-person sharing of milk for babies.
Researchers don’t fully understand the composition of breast milk and its benefits. Beyond nutrition, it contains enzymes, hormones and the mother’s antibodies — including antibodies for COVID-19.
There is no evidence that the coronavirus is transmitted through breast milk, and breastfeeding is encouraged during COVID-19. However, the support available to new mothers has changed dramatically.
Researchers investigated 212 commercially available infant formula milk products on sale in 11 countries.
From dietary supplements to poop transplants, probiotics are now a multi-billion dollar market.
If you’re expressing breast milk for your baby, it’s important to understand how to store it safely – particularly when we’re experiencing warmer weather.
You probably know about the collection of microorganisms that live in, on and around us. But did you know that not everyone in society has equal access to them? That needs to change.
Most UK workplaces aren’t set up for women to breastfeed, so is it any wonder rates are so low.
Proper support for breastfeeding is an environmental imperative.
So many other countries see the value in breastfeeding support but the UK is lagging behind.
Breast milk contains ingredients in concentrations that change over the course of the day. Researchers think milk is chrononutrition, carrying molecular messages to help set a baby’s internal clock.
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Professor of Child Public Health, Swansea University
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Deputy Director, Intellectual Forum at Jesus College in the University of Cambridge, and Researcher for the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University, University of Cambridge
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Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Professor of Pediatrics, The University of Texas at Austin
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Senior Lecturer in Public Health and Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow, Swansea University
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Professor in Breastfeeding Research, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer at York Business School, York St John University
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Lecturer, University of the Free State
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary
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Lecturer in Public Health Nutrition, Swansea University
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Associate professor, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, University of Adelaide
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Director, Children’s Health and Environment Program and World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Children’s Health and Environment, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Literature and Translation, University of East Anglia
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Professor, Chair in Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery Deakin University and Western Health Partnership, Deakin University
