Hi Morgan,
I was aware of the research that looks at maternal intake and fat
composition.
If you've got the refs looking at fat intake and milk composition I'd be
interested to see them (though I'm trying to work out what domesticated herd
animal would normally have other than a very low fat diet and what relevence
being a ruminant might play here too! not sure that there is a huge amount
we could take from animal based research)
I don't doubt that some severely malnourished women do not produce enough
milk to adequately feed their babies...I do wonder about how much the fat
level changes however. Have to do some digging.
Karleen Gribble
Australia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Morgan Gallagher" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: eating disorder


> And whilst it's clear from mammalian herd experiments that a low fat
> diet still produces the approporiate levels of raw fats in milk, it's
> also clear that in a fat free diet, fat levels in milk drops, as does
> supply.  (Although given that herds are over producing as standard, I'd
> hesitate to make the correlation on human supply dropping in extremely
> low fat diets.)

But the research does show that no fat in the diet at
> all, does drop the fat levels in milk.  (All animal research as,
> clearly, it wouldn't be ethical in humans.  If you want, I can post
> several dull and boring references on playing around with fat intake on
> cows, goats, deer and hares!  Or just google.)
>

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