Literature review for - Flourish Paediatrics

food weighing (BM: n =21;
BCM: n = 34) the difference
remained significant (P <
0.01) for MOEE.
motor scores (46.7) when
they were 6 years old than
those who were not Fedeficient
(49.3; n=53; p=
0.011)
Effect on risk
Results indicate cow’s milk
consumption does not protect
against childhood asthma. The
apparent protection of cow’s
milk against asthma may
result from parents of
asthmatic children avoiding
cow’s milk, rather than actual
prophylaxis.
Finding suggest
complementary feeding with
cow’s milk alters the sleeping
metabolic rate in
breastfed infants.
The author’s hypothesise that
the effect occurs in part
through a higher protein
intake in BCM
infants, but even after
adjusting for protein intake,
the effect of feeding group
remained significant therefore
either a bioactive factor
in cow’s milk is responsible
for the higher SMR in BCM
infants, or alternatively, some
factor associated with breast
milk or breastfeeding keeps
SMR low in BM infants.
The iron intakes of this
group of Caucasian
infants and young children
appeared inadequate.
The results suggest that Fe
deficiency at 12 months of
age affects development at
6 years of age.
Cow’s milk consumption
was the dietary factor most
strongly associated
(negatively) with Fe status
indices in both the infant
study and the study of 2-
year-olds.
Author’s comment that these
findings deserve attention in
regards “metabolic
programming” and the
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