Word: colostrum
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...writing that we need to improve. I, for instance, need to improve on “not sucking”, according to “Sean from Kirkland House.” Also, feel free to challenge me. Last week a reader challenged me to write a column about colostrum. I would definitely be willing to write on such a hilarious topic if only I knew what the heck colostrum is. It sounds like it should be a nasal decongestant of some sort, and let me tell you, there is nothing funny about having a runny nose…unless...
...cows were cloned using residual mammary cells found in the yellowish foremilk, or colostrum, produced when a cow gives birth. Scientists from Tokyo-based Snow Brand Milk Products gathered up some of these cells and gave them the Dolly-the-sheep treatment: transplanting their DNA into hollowed-out eggs and inserting the resulting embryos into the wombs of surrogate cows. Mammary cells were also used to produce Dolly, but they were scraped from the udder of an adult sheep. The Japanese scientists believe their kinder, gentler technique will make it easier to clone high-milk-yielding "supercows" by reducing...
...that there is not good evidence of an increased disease incidence in bottle fed infants. That' is patently untrue. There are dozens of studies which show a much higher disease incidence in bottle fed than in breast fed infants. No scientist or immunologist can deny the fact that human colostrum and breast milk contain substances which confer immunity on the infant and protect him from infections, and that infant formulas do not contain these substances. A study published last year in the prestigious Journal of Pediatrics showed a significantly lower rate of infections in breast than in bottle fed infants...
...infections causing diarrhea, and babies with diarrhea extract fewer nutrients from the food they eat, aggravating the malnutrition. Bottle formulas lack the immunilogical benefits of breast feeding, which are especially key in unsanitary conditions. Scientists believe that immunity probably comes from the initial dose of antibodies in the colostrum (the yellowish fluid that comes from the mother's breast a few days after birth). Without the antibodies, babies are prone to common intestinal infections when bottles are not sterilized...
...William E. Petersen and Berry Campbell, who have been working on it (with a dozen colleagues off and on) for ten years. Paul ("Magic Bullet") Ehrlich had shown that antibodies, missing from the blood of calves at birth, can pass to the young in the dam's colostrum. It had been thought that the human species, whether babe or grown man, was unable to pick up these protective antibodies. Not so, say Petersen and Campbell: man and a slew of barnyard beasts and birds can benefit from them. A cow that is vaccinated in the dry phase with preparations...