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

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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

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children, so that the babies were those who controlled the

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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

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mother”, said Holzman.

Source: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, April of the

2012