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Commercial milk formula (CMF) sales are driven by multifaceted, well resourced marketing strategies that portray CMF products, with little or no supporting evidence, as solutions to common infant health and developmental challenges in ways that systematically undermine breastfeeding.
The gut microbiota of breast-fed infants has lower microbial diversity and richness than that of formula-fed infants, with increased Proteobacteria / Pseudomonadota , as well as decreased Bacteroidetes / Bacteroidota and Firmicutes / Bacillota
Davis et al. 2020a…
References (Sources)
- Association of Exposure to Formula in the Hospital and Subsequent Infant Feeding Practices With Gut Microbiota and Risk of Overweight in the First Year of Life
- Glycan Utilisation and Function in the Microbiome of Weaning InfantsReview
- Marketing of commercial milk formula: a system to capture parents, communities, science, and policy
- Microbiome Composition in Pediatric Populations from Birth to Adolescence: Impact of Diet and Prebiotic and Probiotic Interventions
- The piglet as a model for studying dietary components in infant diets: Effects of galacto-oligosaccharides on intestinal functions