Nutrition and Bone Development

by David J. Simmons

This book is an authoritative and comprehensive reference work on the role of nutrition in the development and maintenance of skeletal health. It encompasses the fundamentals of bone development and their biomedical consequences. Eighteen contributions are grouped into five parts: Bone Development and Aging; Nutritional Problems in Mineral Metabolism; Protein, Carbohydrate and Lipids; Trace Elements and Metabolic Bone Disease; and Archaeological Diets...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195043766
• ISBN13: 9780195043761
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"