Breast Milk Contains Over 700 Bacterial Species

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Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04, 2013 @05:16PM

An anonymous reader writes: It is well-known that breastfeeding gives infants nutrients. However, for the first time Spanish researchers created a map of the bacterial microbiota in new mothers' breast milk. They found that, on average, women's breast milk contains about 700 bacterial species.

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