Basically, mothers’ milk is the only food and fluid a child needs in his first half year of life and even after that human milk is accountable for a substantial part of his daily dietary needs. Another principle states that human milk is always sufficient, no matter how the nutrient status of the mother is. Duda et al compared the daily diets of mothers and the levels of lipophilic vitamins in their milk. The found a significant correlation between the two. The vitamin shortcoming in milk were however less than those in mothers’ systems. If the sampling of milk had been done differently (it was done now about 2 hours before the expected next breastfeeding) the outcomes very well might have been quite different as the amount of total fats in human milk differs due to multiple factors and so the lipophilic vitamins will, too. Strobel et al stress the importance of eating a diet rich in pro-vitamin A (beta carotene) before and during pregnancy as diet alone cannot cure an insufficiency during the lactation period.
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