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Does breastfeeding beyond one year benefit children?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 October 2000
Abstract
Human milk contains a unique mixture of nutrients that meet all the nutritional requirements of the growing infant for the first few months of life. Furthermore, it provides bioactive, non-nutritional substances including anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory factors, growth factors, cytokines, hormones and digestive enzymes which confer protection from bacterial and viral infections, and may aid growth and development of the newborn.
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