Screen LibraryMilk : the biology of lactation /
"After drawing its first breath, every newborn mammal turns his or her complete attention to obtaining milk. This primal act was once thought to stem from a basic fact: milk provides the initial source of calories and nutrients for all mammalian young. But it turns out that milk is a much more...
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Johns Hopkins University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Baltimore, Maryland : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"After drawing its first breath, every newborn mammal turns his or her complete attention to obtaining milk. This primal act was once thought to stem from a basic fact: milk provides the initial source of calories and nutrients for all mammalian young. But it turns out that milk is a much more complicated biochemical cocktail and provides benefits beyond nutrition. In this fascinating book, biologists Michael L. Power and Jay Schulkin reveal this liquid's evolutionary history and show how its ingredients have changed over many millions of years to become a potent elixir. Power and Schulkin w "After drawing its first breath every newborn mammal turns his or her complete attention to obtaining milk. This simple act was once thought to stem from a basic fact - milk provides the initial source of calories and nutrients for all mammalian young. That truth, however, is only a piece of the story. Milk, it turns out, is an extremely complex biochemical cocktail. The authors of this fascinating book, biologists Michael L. Power and Jay Schulkin, reveal milk's ancient history and show how the ingredients of mother's milk have evolved over many mammalian generations. Power and Schulkin wal |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-280) and index. |
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9781421420424 (hardback) : 9781421420431 (electronic) 1421420430 (electronic) 1421420422 (hardcover) |
| Index Number: | QP246 |
| CLC: | R174 |
| Call Number: | R174/P887 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Of milk, mothers, and infants -- Part I. The birth of milk. 1. Feeding offspring ; 2. Origins ; 3. The molecules of milk ; 4. Prolactin and oxytocin -- Part II. Milk as food. 5. Not quite perfection ; 6. The milk spectrum ; 7. Lactation strategies -- Part III. More than food. 8. Milk protects ; 9. Milk guides ; 10. Milk regulates ; 11. Developmental origins of health and disease -- Part IV. Our mother's milk. 12. Milk and human evolution ; 13. Breastfeeding, history, and health. |