Breast Milk Sugars Give Infants a Protective Coat
A large part of human milk that cannot be digested by babies coats the lining of a breast-fed infant's intestine, protecting it from noxious bacteria.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
NYTimes: Breast Milk Sugars Give Infants a Protective Coat
"From the infant's perspective, it is born into a world full of hostile microbes, with an untrained immune system and lacking the caustic stomach acid which in adults kills most bacteria. Any element in milk that protects the infant will be heavily favored by natural selection"
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