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Breast Feeding in Reality.- Section I Ethnic-Cultural Effects on Human Lactation.- Cross-Cultural Differences in Lactational Performance.- Ethnic Cultural Effect Upon Human Lactation: Introduction to Workshop with Some Comments to Experience Obtained in Scandinavian Countries During the Last Two Centuries.- Maternal Factors Affecting Lactation.- Anthropometry in the Appraisal of Lactation Performance Among Well-Nourished Women.- Ethnic Determinants of Lactation in a Population of Mothers in the United States.- Effects of Vegetarian Diets Upon the Composition of Human Milk.- Cultural and Environmental Influences on the Nutritional Status of Lactating Women and Their Infants in Nepal.- Section II Effect of Duration of Pregnancy and Lactation Upon Composition of Human Milk.- Lactational Performance and Milk Composition in Relation to Duration of Pregnancy and Lactation.- Pattern of Change in Milk Composition During Lactogenesis in Term and Preterm Mothers.- Lipid Composition of Prepartum, Preterm and Term Milk.- Changes in Milk Composition After Six Months of Lactation: The Effects of Duration of Lactation and Gradual Weaning.- Complementation and Weaning Phases of Lactation.- The Effect of Maternal Parity on Lactational Performance in A Rural African Community.- Comparative Prostaglandin Content in Human Milk.- The Relationship of Maternal Factors to Composition and Structure of Caseins.- Thyroid Hormones in Milk.- Effects of Low Maternal Dietary Intake of Calcium, Selenium and Vitamin B-6 Upon Breast Milk Composition in Nepal.- Section III Lactation Performance.- Assessment of Lactation Performance in Women.- Approaches to the Study of Colostrum-The Onset of Lactation.- Regulation of the Rate of Lactose Production.- Feeding of Premature Infant: Methods to Assess Lactation Performance.- Relationship of Maternal Age to Breast Milk Volume and Composition.- Milk Letdown and the Concentration of Fat in Breast Milk.- Maternal Factors in Lactation Failure.- Mammary Gland Anomalies and Lactation Failure.- Section IV Effects of Maternal Nutrition on Human Lactation.- Effects of Maternal Nutrition on Human Lactation.- Effect of Diet on the Lipid Composition of Human Milk.- Human Milk Carnitine.- Effect of Vitamin Supplementation on Vitamin Levels in Human Milk: Vitamin B-6, Vitamin C and Folacin.- Maternal Factors Affecting the Vitamin D Content of Human Milk.- Changes in Milk Concentrations with Duration of Lactation in Relation to Zinc Requirements of Breast Fed Infants.- Effect of Maternal Iron Status on Iron in Human Milk.- Effect of Maternal Selenium Nutrition on Human Milk Content and Form.- Distribution of Selenium in Human Milk.- Section V Drugs and Toxins in Human Milk.- A Comprehensive Assessment of Drugs and Chemical Toxins Excreted in Breast Milk.- Fundamental Kinetics of Drug Excretion in Breast Milk.- Epidemiology of Environmental Chemical Contaminants in Breast Milk.- The Influence of Maternal factors on Drug Levels in Human Milk.- Effect of Oral Contraceptives on Lactation.- Drug Excretion into Human Milk: Answered and Unanswered and Unanswered Questions.- Cellular Pathways in the Movement of Lipophilic Xenobiotics from GI Tract to Breast Milk.- Section VI Host Defense Factors in Human Milk.- Antibodies in Milk Directed Against Specific Enteropathogens.- Pregnancy Associated Hormonal Milleu and Bronchomammary Cell Traffic.- Investigations of the Secretory Immune System in Human Milk Using Monoclonal Antibodies.- Function of Leukocytes in Human Milk.- Effects of Cholera and Poliovirus Immunizations Upon Specific Antibodies in Human Milk.- Potential Effects of Immunization on The Host Defense Systems in Human Milk.- Inhibition of Attachment of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae by Human Milk.- Effects of Ethnicity on Immunologic Components in Human Milk.- Section VII Poster Presentation.- High Performance Liquid Chromatography of Oligosaccharides from Human Milk and Colostrum.- Fat Content and Cis- and Trans-Isomeric Fatty Acids in Mature Human Fore- and Hindmilk.- Bile Salt Stimulated Lipase: The Enzyme is Present in Non Primate Milk.- Total Nitrogen and Non-Protein Nitrogen Balance in Preterm Infants Fed Preterm Human Milk.- Recovery of Vitamin K from Human Milk.- Skim Milk Membranes in Human Milk.- Breastfeeding: Cultural Practices and Variations.- Contributors and Participants.