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Nutrition and Osteoporosis (Hardcover, 1994 ed.)
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Nutrition and Osteoporosis (Hardcover, 1994 ed.)
Series: Advances in Nutritional Research, 9
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Nutrition and Osteoporosis: Seeing Through a Glass, Darkly (1 Cor.
13:12) This volume of Advances in Nutritional Research deals with
the present state of knowledge relative to the role of nutrition in
the etiology of osteoporosis, one of the most serious degenerative
diseases in the aging population. As a back drop for subsequent
chapters on specific nutrients, Chapter 1 provides a com prehensive
account of the gain and loss of bone throughout the life cycle,
with emphasis on the architectural changes in later life that
predispose to osteoporotic bone fractures. Chapter 2 documents the
occurrence of aging bone loss through out human archeological
history and Chapter 3 extends this documentation to all non-human
vertebrate species so far examined, including primates living in
the wild. It is apparent that a progressive loss of bone tissue is
a normal accompaniment of aging among higher vertebrates. Whether
it is a cause of bone fractures in animals, as it is in humans, is
still unknown. It has also been established that there are
significant differences in the frequency of osteoporotic fractures
among human families, ethnic groups, national populations and diet
cultures. Numerous studies have been carried out in an effort to
explain these differences, and many of these deal with the possible
effect of nutrition. Protracted controversies over the role of
nutrition in the etiology of osteoporosis are reflected in the
contents of several of the ensuing chapters."
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