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Latte: a ciascuno il suo!
Effetti non nutrizionali del latte
Milk: to each their own!
Luigi Greco1, Maria Pina Mollica2, Rossella Negri1
1Dipartimento di Pediatria, 2Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Napoli Federico II
Novembre 2015 - pagg. 573 -579
Abstract
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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