Nutritional Influences on Bone Health 9th International Symposium
In this book, the authors delve into the latest findings in bone and other tissues including muscle and brain, and discuss the recent evidences of the roles of protein, potassium, B vitamins, vitamin D, omega 3 fatty acids and flavonoids on bone and muscl
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Nutritional Influences on Bone Health
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Nutritional Influences on Bone Health
Connie M. Weaver Robin M. Daly • Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari Editors
Nutritional Influences on Bone Health 9th International Symposium
Editors Connie M. Weaver Nutrition and Science Purdue University West Lafayette Indiana USA
Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari Geriatrics and Aging Research University of Zurich Zurich Switzerland
Robin M. Daly Deakin University Melbourne Australia
ISBN 978-3-319-32415-9 ISBN 978-3-319-32417-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-32417-3
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Foreword
The International Symposium on Nutritional Aspects of Osteoporosis: Origin, History and Scope As an endocrinologist dealing with diabetes, obesity and bone diseases, I naturally developed an interest in the association between nutrition and bone health, which in the seventies and eighties was restricted to the role of calcium. I always felt that there was a gap with no regular international meeting dedicated to this topic, next to the much bigger research fields of bone cell biology, vitamin D or epidemiology, treatment of osteoporosis etc. When in 1990, I was asked by the Serono Foundation to organize an international endocrinology symposium, I seized the occasion and presented the idea of a bone nutrition meeting to Robert Heaney. He certainly was the figurehead needed for such a launch. He agreed to give it a try, and we organized the first meeting in 1991. Calcium was obviously the main topic, but not the only one. Three years later, the meeting was held again with a wider spectrum of topics. Vitamin D captured great attention, and other topics appropriate at that time, such as the role of oth
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