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Re: LACTNET Digest - 10 Mar 1997 - Special issue
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Jacky Myers <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 11 Mar 1997 08:53:22 -0800
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>1.  Does anyone know where the studies are that definitively "prove" that
>human milk is 20 calories/ounce?  Does this hold true as an "average" for
>breastmilk from the onset of mature milk through -- however long the infant
>is breastfeeding?  Is it still 20 cal/ounce when the baby is 4 months old, 6
>months, 12 months, 2 years?  Has anyone done studies on it?  Does anyone
>besides me care?


>Jan

According to Human Milk in the Modern World by Jeliffe and Jelliffe, Macy,
Kelly, and Sloan give a mean figure of 75 calories per 100 ml with a range
of 45-119.
Jacqueline Myers, AAHCC

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