Milk, Microbiota, and Modern Epidemics
A lecture by Maureen Minchin, a leading researcher and author on how early infant feeding – especially the use of artificial infant formula instead of breast milk – affects an infant’s microbiome and life-long health. Of interest to anthropologists, historians, nutritionists, psychologists, and all health care professionals. Students especially welcome.
Maureen Minchin is a medical historian from Australia and a ground-breaking pioneer in the field of infant feeding, first with her book on food intolerances (Food for Thought, editions 1982-1992), then with the publication of Breastfeeding Matters in 1985 (4th edition in 1998). She helped establish the international profession of lactation consulting, and, through WHO and UNICEF, helped create the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative, which has led to major reform in hospital maternity practices. She has worked in voluntary organizations for decades and educated thousands of health professionals via courses and conferences, including physicians, nurses, midwives, and pharmacists. A mother of three, her interests and writing are grounded in her comprehensive knowledge of the science of breastfeeding and human lactation, but are also plain-spoken and practical, arising from her own and other women's experiences.
Maureen Minchin's new book, Milk Matters: Infant Feeding and Immune Disorder (2015) is a call to action for all who are interested in the long term health of humanity. We must take a better-educated and research-driven view of the effects of early diet on later health. Milk Matters contains three books in one:- • Book 1 advances the milk hypothesis, that immune disorders can be communicated vertically, compounding intergenerationally, through early infant nutrition and pregnancy and birth experiences; • Book 2 describes the development of replacements for breast milk, outlining their past, present and future deficiencies and excesses, and the known or likely consequences of their use; • Book 3 links the science and history of human lactation and breastfeeding to everyday infant problems, and gives practical advice about preventing or resolving diet-related distress in young children. With her usual intelligent passion, Maureen provides compelling evidence for the necessity of feeding species-specific milk. What will it take for clinicians who are charged with the health of our most vulnerable citizens - our babies - to finally improve their management of infant nutrition?
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Kirkbride Lecture Hall, Room 100
Kirkbride Lecture Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
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