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A 3 page overview of the importance of adequate nutrition in child development. This paper emphasizes the importance of breast milk. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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to healthy development. Unfortunately, factors such as poverty and inadequate knowledge on the part of parents and other caregivers go hand-in-hand with poor nutrition. The task falls to
health care workers, sociologists, and psychologists to break through such factors and to insure that parents and other care providers are well-informed when it comes to the importance of nutrition
in infancy and early childhood. Indeed parental nutrition during pregnancy can impact a childs health for the remainder of its life.
Parents, of course, are the first line of combatants in our quest for good nutrition. Nutrition during infancy is known to be optimized in most cases when a mother
breast feeds her child. Human milk is far superior to meeting the needs of human infants than is any other type of milk. While animal milks such as
cow and goat milk can, and have, been utilized in feeding human infants; they are inferior to human milk. Formulas share this inferiority as well. Pediatrics (2005, 496)
reports improvements in infant weight gain, less propensity for obesity in later life, and even advantages in terms of cognitive development.
Human milk is advantageous to the infants physical and mental development for a number of reasons. Macrophages, for example, are derived from breast milk and contain significant immunological properties
(Field, 2005). They are believed to work by enhancing the function of infant T and B cells (Field, 2005). "Neutrophils" are another important player in the immune system
(Field, 2005). They too are secured through human milk (Field, 2005). The primary role of neutrophils is believed to be in imparting maternal immunity as opposed to infant
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