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Calcium Nutrition and Its Relationship to Bone Health

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Nutrition, Aging, and the Elderly

Part of the book series: Human Nutrition ((HUNU,volume 6))

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In a sense, it is odd that there should be any doubt about this issue, since all of one’s calcium must come from the diet aside from the rather small contribution made by the mother during pregnancy. Nevertheless, calcium nutrition and utilization vary so greatly from individual to individual, other factors affect bone health so profoundly, and measurement tools are so imprecise that the relationship has been difficult to document and characterize.

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  1. Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, 68178, USA

    Robert R. Recker

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    Darla E. Danford

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Recker, R.R., Heaney, R.P. (1989). Calcium Nutrition and Its Relationship to Bone Health. In: Munro, H.N., Danford, D.E. (eds) Nutrition, Aging, and the Elderly. Human Nutrition, vol 6. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2537-4_8

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