Breast Milk Sugars Give Infants a Protective Coat

Monday, August 2, 2010 - 16:49 in Health & Medicine

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.

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