Breast Milk Sugars Give Infants a Protective Coat

Breast Milk Sugars Give Infants a Protective Coat - NYTimes.com: A large part of human milk cannot be digested by babies and seems to have a purpose quite different from infant nutrition — that of influencing the composition of the bacteria in the infant’s gut. The details of this three-way relationship between mother, child and gut microbes are being worked out by researchers.