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Harold H. Draper
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Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
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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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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxii
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- Susan K. Pfeiffer, Richard A. Lazenby
Pages 35-51
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- John J. B. Anderson, William S. Pollitzer
Pages 129-149
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- Jane E. Kerstetter, Lindsay H. Allen
Pages 167-181
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- B. E. Christopher Nordin, Allan G. Need
Pages 209-230
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- Claude Ribot, Florence Trémollières, Jean-Michel Pouillès
Pages 257-271
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- Everett L. Smith, Catherine Gilligan, Lorri J. Tommerup
Pages 273-285
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- Susan I. Barr, Jerilynn C. Prior
Pages 287-310
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Back Matter
Pages 311-313
Reviews
From reviews of previous volumes:
`A valuable book that contains material that is not easily assessible elsewhere.'
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
`An excellent insight into current research on nutrition.'
British Medical Journal
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
Harold H. Draper