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Trace Element and Mineral Nutrition During Lactation

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Clinical Nutrition of the Essential Trace Elements and Minerals

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Lactation is a vital aspect of the human reproductive process. Humans are among the over 4000 species of mammals who are distinguished from all other animals by the female possessing mammary glands capable of furnishing milk as the sole source of nutrition for their developing young immediately following birth (1). Knowledge of human milk mineral contents and quantity transferred to the infant are essential to our understanding of maternal and infant nutritional requirements.

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  2. United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, Grand Forks, ND, USA

    Leslie M. Klevay MD, SD in Hyg

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Picciano, M.F. (2000). Trace Element and Mineral Nutrition During Lactation. In: Bogden, J.D., Klevay, L.M. (eds) Clinical Nutrition of the Essential Trace Elements and Minerals. Nutrition ◊ and ◊ Health. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-040-7_9

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