Abstract
The conclusions of the NIH Consensus Development Panel on Optimal Calcium Intake1 can be summarized as follows: (1) calcium is important for bone health throughout life; (2) most Americans are not getting enough calcium; and (3) the optimal intakes turn out to be higher than we had thought. These are important findings and deserve the broadest possible dissemination to both the general public and the health professions. While the report, in general, is exceptionally well put together, appropriately nuanced, and well documented, there is one paragraph in section 4 (on the best ways to obtain optimal calcium intake) that contains some possibly misleading information.1(p1946) The paragraph twice suggests that, if calcium supplements are to be used, they should be ingested between meals, and it implies that gastric acid is needed for absorption of calcium carbonate. The reasons given for the first statement were that calcium can.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1012 |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Journal | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association |
| Volume | 274 |
| Issue number | 13 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1995 |
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Optimal Calcium Intake. / Heaney, Robert P.
In: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 274, No. 13, 1995, p. 1012.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter
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T1 - Optimal Calcium Intake
AU - Heaney, Robert P.
PY - 1995
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N2 - The conclusions of the NIH Consensus Development Panel on Optimal Calcium Intake1 can be summarized as follows: (1) calcium is important for bone health throughout life; (2) most Americans are not getting enough calcium; and (3) the optimal intakes turn out to be higher than we had thought. These are important findings and deserve the broadest possible dissemination to both the general public and the health professions. While the report, in general, is exceptionally well put together, appropriately nuanced, and well documented, there is one paragraph in section 4 (on the best ways to obtain optimal calcium intake) that contains some possibly misleading information.1(p1946) The paragraph twice suggests that, if calcium supplements are to be used, they should be ingested between meals, and it implies that gastric acid is needed for absorption of calcium carbonate. The reasons given for the first statement were that calcium can.
AB - The conclusions of the NIH Consensus Development Panel on Optimal Calcium Intake1 can be summarized as follows: (1) calcium is important for bone health throughout life; (2) most Americans are not getting enough calcium; and (3) the optimal intakes turn out to be higher than we had thought. These are important findings and deserve the broadest possible dissemination to both the general public and the health professions. While the report, in general, is exceptionally well put together, appropriately nuanced, and well documented, there is one paragraph in section 4 (on the best ways to obtain optimal calcium intake) that contains some possibly misleading information.1(p1946) The paragraph twice suggests that, if calcium supplements are to be used, they should be ingested between meals, and it implies that gastric acid is needed for absorption of calcium carbonate. The reasons given for the first statement were that calcium can.
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