new YORK (Reuters Health) – in a new study, babies
a dose of extra amino acid in the formula-fed
they ate less and felt before that when they took satiety
vaccine milk formula, a result that challenges the idea that
the bottle reduces food self-regulation of babies.
The authors observed that the addition of glutamate in the
common milk formula made babies take
significantly less amount and not have signs of
hunger.
Breast milk contains naturally high levels of
glutamate, one of the amino acids in proteins, while
vaccine milk has low levels.
“The food is at least as important as the way in
“
administered. “What we want to imitate is the same level of
consumption than with human milk”, said co-author of the study,
Gary Beauchamp, director of the Monell Center of senses
Philadelphia chemicals.
Thirty parents with babies participated in the study
published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Babies,
of less than 4 months of age, they took a bottle with formula two
consecutive times per day for three days, in the
laboratory.
During the three days that lasted the test was administered
one of three formulas with each first meal: the common formula
milk vaccine; the same formula with added glutamate, or the
hydrolysed formula containing predigerida milk protein.
The team of Beauchamp allowed children to drink
formula in the first food to give signals of satiety.
When babies returned to feel hunger, they were given the second
food with vaccine milk formula.
Parents fed their babies to the rhythm of costumbre:
began and ended only when babies felt hunger or
satiety through signals as sucking the hand or separated
of the bottle. None knew what makes receiving their children.
In the first food, babies consumed
significantly less vaccine milk and hydrolysed formula
with glutamate than common vaccine formula. This made that the
authors conclude that the formula does not alter the self-regulation
babies food.
“Parents were unaware what formula administered them to their
“
children, so that the babies were those who controlled the
“
amounts which consumed”, explained Beauchamp.
The interval between the first and the second meal unchanged
significantly depending on the type of formula consumed in the
first meal. Babies fed first with the
formula enriched with glutamate or hydrolysed not compensated for
the amount of the first meal with the second meal.
This shows that the babies were satisfied with the two
formulas rich in amino acids despite having consumed one
smaller share, as the author was of the opinion.
The national institutes of health in United States and
Ajinomoto Inc., which produces amino acids, funded the study,
Although none participated in the research or the drafting of the
final article.
“Additional glutamate would control the appetite of the baby”,
felt Dr. Ian Holzman, neonatologist at the Faculty of
Mount Sinai medicine.
Although breast milk is still the best food for
babies, the expert – who did not participate in the study – explained that
some children may not consume it by various issues
medical or social.
In such cases, the study suggests that adding glutamate to
infant formula could “bring it much closer to the milk
“”
mother”, said Holzman.
Source: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, April of the
2012
