{"id":9112,"date":"2010-05-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/05\/30\/mother-s-milk-helps-improve-baby-s-dna\/"},"modified":"2010-05-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T12:00:00","slug":"mother-s-milk-helps-improve-baby-s-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/05\/30\/mother-s-milk-helps-improve-baby-s-dna\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother&#8217;s Milk Helps Improve Baby&#8217;s DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/beta.thehindu.com\/health\/medicine-and-research\/article437061.ece\">beta.thehindu.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, May 24, 2010: According to a leading researcher at the University of Illinois, most of the genes enhanced by breast milk promote quick development of the intestine and immune system. Giving reasons why mother&#8217;s milk is always better than any formula, scientists have claimed that breast milk improves the functioning of their genes in a way that protects them from illness.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Illinois have found that infants&#8217; first food affects their gene expression, giving a possible mechanism for how breast milk impacts health. Gene expression is the process by which instructions in a gene are used to synthesize a functional gene product, mostly proteins. When genes are expressed, it is as if they are &#8220;turned on&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Lead researcher Sharon Donovan of the University of Illinois said that it has already been known that breast milk contains immune&#8211;protective components that make a breast-fed infant&#8217;s risk lower for all kinds of illnesses. &#8220;But what we haven&#8217;t known is how breast milk protects the infant and particularly how it regulates the development of the intestine,&#8221; she said, adding that understanding those differences could help formula makers develop a product that is more like the real thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: beta.thehindu.com WASHINGTON, May 24, 2010: According to a leading researcher at the University of Illinois, most of the genes,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}