Hello All,

This new open access study found "secondhand" fructose in human milk (related to maternal diet).  Excerpts from the ScienceDaily article below, with a link to the study following.  

The proof-of-concept study involving 25 mothers and infants provides preliminary evidence that even fructose equivalent to the weight of a grain of rice in a full day's serving of breast milk is associated with increased body weight, muscle and bone mineral content . . . "Lactose is the main source of carbohydrate energy and breast milk is very beneficial, but it's possible that you can lose some of that beneficial effect depending on maternal diet and how that may affect the composition of breast milk," Goran said. "Other studies have shown that fructose and artificial sweeteners are particularly damaging during critical periods of growth and development in children. We are beginning to see that any amount of fructose in breast milk is risky."

Goran and his colleagues did not collect mothers' dietary data for this study, so they were unable to determine if the trace amounts of fructose found in breast milk is positively associated with habitual consumption of fructose-rich foods and drinks.

Citation: Michael Goran, Ashley Martin, Tanya Alderete, Hideji Fujiwara, David Fields. Fructose in Breast Milk Is Positively Associated with Infant Body Composition at 6 Months of Age. Nutrients 2017; 9 (2): 146 DOI: 10.3390/nu9020146

The ScienceDaily article includes interviews with two of the study's co-authors:  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170302115834.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fhealth_medicine%2Fbreastfeeding+%28Breastfeeding+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

Looking forward to hearing your feedback.  My first thoughts are that 1) yes, we do need to improve our health re: obesity and its sequelae and 2) we must steadfastly acknowledge immunologic and other critical aspects of species-specific milks. 

With best regards, 

Debra Swank, RN BSN IBCLC
Ocala, Florida USA
More Than Reflexes Education
http://www.MoreThanReflexes.org

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