| Description |
xviii, 450 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Nutrition and health |
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Nutrition and health (Totowa, N.J.)
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Nutrition and health
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| Contents |
Bone as the calcium nutrient reserve / Robert P. Heaney -- Cellular functions and fluxes of calcium / Emmanuel M. Awumey and Richard D. Bukoski -- Nutritional epidemiology / Carol J. Boushey -- Clinical approaches for studying calcium metabolism and its relationship to disease / Connie M. Weaver -- Kinetic studies / Meryl E. Wastney, Yongdong Zhao, and Connie M. Weaver -- Requirements for what endpoint / Robert P. Heaney -- Dietary calcium: recommendations and intakes around the world / Anne C. Looker -- Food sources, supplements, and bioavailability / Connie M. Weaver and Robert P. Heaney -- The calcium economy / Robert P. Heaney -- Molecular regulation of calcium metabolism / James C. Fleet -- Influence of total diet on calcium homeostasis / Zamzam K. (Fariba) Roughead -- Influence of lifestyle choices on calcium homeostasis : smoking, alcohol, and hormone therapies / D. Lee Alekel and Oksana Matvienko -- |
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Influence of physical activity on calcium and bone / Matthew Vukovich and Bonny Specker -- The case for a calcium appetite in humans / Michael G. Tordoff -- Infancy and childhood / Steven A. Abrams and Keli M. Hawthorne -- Pre-puberty and adolescence / Connie M. Weaver -- Calcium in pregnancy and lactation / Heidi J. Kalkwarf -- Calcium in systemic human health / Robert P. Heaney -- Calcium and oral health / Elizabeth A. Krall -- Dietary calcium and obesity / Dorothy Teegarden -- Polycystic ovarian syndrome and reproduction / Susan Thys-Jacobs -- Premenstrual syndrome / Susan Thys-Jacobs -- Calcium in the later years : osteoporosis / Bess Dawson-Hughes -- Calcium, vitamin D, and cancer / Peter R. Holt -- Dietary calcium and the metabolic syndrome / Dorothy Teegarden -- Calcium and phosphate control in patients with renal disease / David A. McCarron and Robert P. Heaney -- Hypertension and cardiovascular disease / David A. McCarron |
| Summary |
"Comprehensive and authoritative, Calcium in Human Health often health professionals and researchers a vast amount of current information on the sources, biological function, interactions, and disease implications of calcium, a critical benchmark resource for improving the health outcomes of individuals, finding new drugs that alter the function of the extracellular calcium receptor, setting adequate dietary requirements, and developing new disease-prevention programs."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Calcium in the body.
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Calcium in human nutrition.
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Calcium -- metabolism.
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Calcium -- pharmacology.
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Nutritional Requirements.
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| Author |
Weaver, Connie, 1950-
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Heaney, Robert P. (Robert Proulx), 1927-2016.
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| LC no. |
2005006564 |
| ISBN |
1588294528 hardback |
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1592599613 e-ISBN |
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