Relation between Dietary Fat, Fat Content of Milk and Concentration of Certain Enzymes in Human Milk

Abstract

Dietary fat, milk fat and the lipase, esterase, acid and alkaline phosphatase contents of milk of 60 lactating women were estimated and it was found that up to a certain limit increases in dietary fat were accompanied by increases in milk fat as well as in lipase, esterase, and alkaline phosphatase contents of milk.