Male and female infants respond differentially to environmental stimuli, with different growth
and neurodevelopmental trajectories. Male infants are more likely to be disadvantaged …

Obesity is the most common metabolic disease whose prevalence is increasing worldwide.
This condition is considered a serious public health problem due to associated …

Background Maternal obesity is a risk factor for childhood obesity; this is a major public
health concern given that∼ 40% of pregnant women are either overweight or obese …

Results: Breast milk hormone concentrations varied widely between mothers. The geometric
mean (range) was 19.4 (3.7–74.4) ngml− 1 for adiponectin; 361 (31–3968) pgml− 1 for …

Establishment of the gut microbiota during infancy is critical for host health with long-lasting
implications. In this orchestrated process, microbial assembly is influenced by an increasing …

Donor human milk (DHM) is submitted to Holder pasteurization (HoP) to ensure its
microbiological safety in human milk banks but this treatment affects some of its bioactive …

Human milk (HM) adipokines may influence infant feeding patterns, appetite regulation, and
body composition (BC). The associations between concentrations/calculated daily intakes …

Early nutrition may have long-lasting metabolic impacts in adulthood. Even though breast
milk is the gold standard, most infants are at least partly formula-fed. Despite obvious …

Human milk (HM) is the optimal nutrition for infants born at term during the first months of life
by itself and thereafter in combination with complementary feeding 1 and for preterm infants …

Results: The levels of let-7a (2.58±0.67) and miRNA-378 (4.64±0.69) in colostrum were
higher than those in mature milk (2.39±0.62, 3.62±0.77, P< 0.01). Conversely, the level of …