Novembre 2015 - Volume XXXIV - numero 9

Medico e Bambino


Articolo speciale

Latte: a ciascuno il suo!
Effetti non nutrizionali del latte

Luigi Greco1, Maria Pina Mollica2, Rossella Negri1

1Dipartimento di Pediatria, 2Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Napoli Federico II

Indirizzo per corrispondenza: rosnegri@unina.it

Milk: to each their own!

Key words: Milk, Energy balance, Inflammation, Redox state, Gut microbiota

Relevance of early nutrition in promoting body growth and health is well established. Human milk is the natural food of all human infants; it provides an adequate supply of all nutrients necessary to support growth and development and even plays a key role in preventing overweight and obesity throughout life in addition to providing immunoregulatory components. Unfortunately, a very large population of infants is deprived of their natural food: the rate of cow milk consumption in the early months of life is very high in Western countries, which has been suggested as a factor that contributes to the increasing burden of obesity and related disorders. Consistently during recent years, milks from monogastric animals, rather than from ruminant species, have been indicated to be more suitable for human nutrition based on their physicochemical properties. Among these, donkey milk has been suggested as the best potential substitute for HM due to its composition. The paper reports the comparison in an animal model of the metabolic effects of the supplementation with different milks (human, cow’s or donkey’s milk) and the conclusion that energy balance, inflammatory state, antioxidant/detoxifying enzyme activities, mitochondrial efficiency and gut microbiota are differently affected by the intake of monogastric or ruminant milk.

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L. Greco, M.P. Mollica, R. Negri
Latte: a ciascuno il suo!; Effetti non nutrizionali del latte
Medico e Bambino 2015;34(9):573-579 https://www.medicoebambino.com/?id=1509_573.pdf


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