UK
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Prof. Paula Meier
Neonatal Intensive Care Section of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics Rush University Medical Center 1653 West Congress Parkway Chicago, IL 60612
USA
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Prof. Ardythe L. Morrow
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati 3333 Burnet Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45229
USA
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Prof. Kevin Roy Nicholas
School of BioSciences The University of Melbourne Grattan Street Parkville, VIC 3010
Australia
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Prof. Carolyn M. Slupsky
Department of Nutrition University of California, Davis One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616
USA
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Dr. Norbert Sprenger
Institute of Nutritional Science Nestlé Research Center Nestec Ltd. Vers-Chez-Les-Blanc CH–1000 Lausanne 26
Switzerland
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Prof. Valerie Verhasselt
School of Molecular Science University of Western Australia, M310 35 Stirling Highway Perth Perth, WA 6009
Australia
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Dr. Mike Woolridge
Great Ormond Street & Institute of Child Health University College London 30 Guilford Street London WC1N 1EH
UK
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Participants
Silvana Dadán/Colombia
Wilson Daza/Colombia
Kim Fleischer Michaelsen/Denmark
Veit Grote/Germany
Berthold Koletzko/Germany
Baliga Bantwal Shantharam/India
Gaurav Bhalla/India
Anand Bhutada/India
Shekhar Biswas/India
Reeta Bora/India
Rashna Dass Hazarika/India
Pardeep Kumar/India
Nandhini Kumaran/India
Subash Rao/India
Julistio Tryoga Budhiawan/Indonesia
Peter Willatts/Ireland
Emeh Ekukinam/Nigeria
Zulfiqar Bhutta/Pakistan
Huma Fahim/Pakistan
Ali Jawad/Pakistan
M. Wamiq Pasha/Pakistan
Hugo Rodrigues/Portugal
Inam Alhabib/Saudi Arabia
Tamer Mohamed Rizk/Saudi Arabia
Najwa Mohammed Alsawi/Saudi Arabia
Samera Nour/Saudi Arabia
Manal Saeed H. Alaseeri/Saudi Arabia
Ahmed Said Elboushy/Saudi Arabia
Mohamed Sami Elshimi/Saudi Arabia
Meng Choo/Singapore
Angel Fung Chi Lin/Singapore
Wei Kin Gong/Singapore
Michelle Tan/Singapore
Siak Hong Teo/Singapore
Janice Wong/Singapore
Chin Khoon Wong/Singapore
Rasnayake M. Mudiyanse/Sri Lanka
Peter Arner/Sweden
Delphine Egli/Switzerland
Yannick Evrard/Switzerland
Sanjeev Ganguly/Switzerland
Maël Guillemot/Switzerland
Ernst Hunziker/Switzerland
Karina Negro/Switzerland
Evelyn Spivey-Krobath/Switzerland
Christine Stillhart/Switzerland
Sagar Thakkar/Switzerland
Marco Turini/Switzerland
Narumon Densupsoontorn/Thailand
Ruangvith Tantibhaedhyangkul/Thailand
Liz Greenstreet/UK
Maureen Black/USA
Robert Black/USA
Susan Carlson/USA
John Colombo/USA
Sean Deoni/USA
Marta Fiorotto/USA
Michelle Lampl/USA
Thomas Landes Clemens/USA
Gisella Mutungi/USA
90th Nestlé Nutrition Institute Workshop Lausanne Oct. 30–Nov 1, 2017
State of Breastfeeding in the World
Donovan SM, German JB, Lönnerdal B, Lucas A (eds): Human Milk: Composition, Clinical Benefits and Future Opportunities. Nestlé Nutr Inst Workshop Ser, vol 90, pp 1–12, (DOI: 10.1159/000490290)
Nestlé Nutrition Institute, Switzerland/S. Karger AG., Basel, © 2019
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Scientific Evidence for Breastfeeding
Alan Lucas
Institute of Child Health, University College, London, UK
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Abstract
The global drive to promote breastfeeding targeted at all 134 million infants born/year on the planet is one of the most pervasive public health interventions. It is, therefore, critical that the breastfeeding field is rooted in sound evidence. Three important scientific pillars of breastfeeding have been: (1) that human milk (HM) is the product of 200 million years of mammalian evolution; (2) that HM composition should be seen as the gold standard for infant nutritional requirements; and (3) that HM has