Mitigation of chronic infant malnutrition
View Patent ↗Disclosed are nutraceutical formulations, and methods of using these nutraceutical formulations for the mitigation of chronic malnutrition in an infant, wherein the infant is breast feeding from a lactating mother ingesting one or more of said nutraceutical formulations in accordance with a prescribed regimen.
1. A method of mitigation of chronic malnutrition in an infant, the method comprising the infant breast feeding from a lactating mother ingesting a nutraceutical comprising a hydrophilic soluble fraction/lipophilic fiber fraction blend, wherein the hydrophilic soluble fraction/lipophilic fiber fraction blend ratio is from 1.2 to 1.4, wherein said lactating mother has an initial body mass index of less than 25, a height of from 1.22 to 1.60 meters, and an age of from 12 to 25 years, and wherein said infant at the start of breast feeding has a weight of from 3 kg to 4 kg and an age of from newborn to 30 days.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein said lactating mother is ingesting from 35 grams per day to 45 grams per day of said nutraceutical.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein said infant showed a monthly weight gain of from 500 grams per month to 800 grams per month in the first 12 months of starting said breast feeding.