Nutrition during lactation
By: Subcommittee on Nutrition during Lactation, Committee on Nutritional Status during Pregnancy and Lactation, Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences.
Contributors: United States. Health Resources and Services Administration.
Publisher: National Academy Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Breastfeeding -- Health aspects.; Lactation -- Nutritional aspects.; Breast milk -- Analysis.; Infants -- Development.; Breast Feeding.; Infant, Newborn.; Lactation.; Milk, Human -- analysis.; Nutritional Requirements.; Nutritional Status.
Description: " ... Presents data on who among U.S. mothers is breastfeeding and on the links between the mother's nutrition and the nutrition and growth of her infant. The volume provides information on the possible risk of transmission through breastfeeding of allergic diseases, environmental toxins, and certain viruses (including the AIDS virus) and reviews the effects of maternal cigarette smoking , drug use, and alcohol consumption"--Cover, p. [4].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This study was supported by project no. MCJ 116011 from the Maternal and Child Health Program (Title V, Social Security Act), Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services"--T.p. verso.