Lactation promotes a temporary loss of bone mass to provide adequate amounts of calcium for milk production.
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Lactation promotes a temporary loss of bone mass to provide adequate amounts of calcium for milk production. The paper
“Bone Mass Is Recovered from Lactation to Postweaning in Adolescent Mothers with Low Calcium Intakes” (Amer. J.
Clinical Nutr., 2004: 1322–1326) gave the following data on total body bone mineral content (TBBMC) (g) for a sample both during lactation (L) and in the postweaning period (P).
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Probability And Statistics For Engineering And The Sciences
ISBN: 9781111802325
7th Edition
Authors: Dave Ellis, Jay L Devore
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