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I HAVE undertaken a study of the chemical composition of mature human milk (excluding colostrum) in the Kivu region of the Belgian Congo. The analyses were done on 250 samples of all the milk secreted during 24 hr. by mothers belonging to the Bashi tribe. This ethnic group lives along the eastern shore of Lake Kivu (about long. 29° E. of Greenwich) in the Belgian Congo, between latitudes 2° 10′ S. and 2° 40′ S. at an altitude varying from 1,460 to 2,000 metres above sea-level. Their staple foods are beans, sweet potatoes and beer made from bananas. Demaeyer took the samples in his quantitative study of milk secretion.
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ROELS, O. Correlation between the Fat and the Protein Content of Human Milk. Nature 182, 673 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182673a0
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