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- Title
The Importance of Calcium Intake For Lifelong Skeletal Health.
- Authors
Heaney, R. P.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the importance of calcium (Ca) intake for lifelong skeletal health. Calcium is a major component of bone mass and the organism cannot build or maintain the skeletal mass called for in the genetic blueprint if Ca intake is insufficient or daily calcium losses are excessive. The importance of ensuring an adequate Ca intake has been shown most clearly for estrogen. Unlike energy, stored as fat, the body cannot store an excess of Ca. With advancing age, ability to adapt to low Ca intake largely disappears. The inability of the elderly to adapt to suboptimal intakes uncovers the intake of Ca that may be best and safest for everyone.
- Subjects
CALCIUM; BONE growth; CALCIUM content of food; SKELETAL maturity; OLDER people; ESTROGEN
- Publication
Calcified Tissue International, 2002, Vol 70, Issue 2, p70
- ISSN
0171-967X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00223-001-0032-3