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A Quantitative Study of the Dietary of the Human Mother with Respect to the Nutrients Secreted into Breast Milk^*

Carroll F. Shukers, Icie G. Macy, Betty Nims, Eva Donelson and Helen A. Hunscher

(From the Nutrition Research Laboratories of the Merrill-Palmer School and the Children's Hospital of Michigan, ^,** Detroit.)

A quantitative study of the self-chosen diets of three multiparae is reported. The nutritive requirements during 60 weeks of intensive milk flow are considered, with particular reference to the relationship between the intake of food calories, proteins, fat, carbohydrates, calcium, and phosphorus and the outgo of these components in breast milk.

National Research Council Fellow in Child Development and Parent Training under a grant of the Spleman Fund, 1927–28; National Research Council Fellow in Child Development under a grant of the Spelman Fund, 1929–30.

^** Now the Research Laboratories of the Children's Fund of Michigan, Detroit.

Manuscript received 17 June 1931.