title: Nutrition and human milk.
abstract: The nutritional composition of human milk is specifically suited to the needs of the human infant. In addition to eliminating the chance for contamination, human milk provides active protection against infection, and breast-fed babies have fewer metabolic anomalies and are less subject to allergy than formula-fed babies.
mesh_terms: D001942:Breast Feeding; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008895:Milk, Human / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D011247:Pregnancy