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Developing Brain Behaviour - The Role of Lipids in Infant Formula (Hardcover)
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Developing Brain Behaviour - The Role of Lipids in Infant Formula (Hardcover)
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Certain long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFAs) are
thought to be essential components of the nutrition of infants,
including those prematurely born, in the sense that they cannot be
synthesises by the immature organism and must therefore be supplied
in the diet. Breast milk contains these substances, but many
manufactured infant formulae do not.
An absence of dietary LCPUFAs has been thought to affect the
development of the brain and retina, possibly leading to
abnormalties in cognitive and visual function. Considerable
multidisciplinary research has been carried out to investigate this
proposition. Diets free from LCPUFAs have been compared with
supplemented formulae, or with breast milk.
The conclusions from this research were critically examined by a
group of leading paediatricians, nutritionists, experts in visual
science and developmental behavioural scientists at a 'Dobbing
Workshop' held in the United States in late February, 1997. Each of
the Chapters was precirculated to the whole group, commented on
before the Workshop, and then exhaustively discussed. The Chapters
and Commentaries which are published here have therefore undergone
a more extensive peer-review process than is usually the case.
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