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The Case for a Calcium Appetite in Humans

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Calcium in Human Health

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Other chapters in this book discuss calcium requirements and sources, the physiological mechanisms of calcium homeostasis, and diseases that are caused or exacerbated by insufficient calcium consumption. There is often an implicit assumption made that if only people consumed as much calcium as they need—or as much as nutritionists tell them they need—homeostatic mechanisms could maintain calcium balance and the diseases would be ameliorated. But there has been very little attention paid to the question of why people consume less calcium than they need. This chapter examines this critical but neglected question.

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Tordoff, M.G. (2006). The Case for a Calcium Appetite in Humans. In: Weaver, C.M., Heaney, R.P. (eds) Calcium in Human Health. Nutrition and Health. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-961-5_15

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