Potential for Improving Health: Calcium Bioavailability in Milk and Dairy Products

Bioactive Components in Milk and Dairy Products

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 363-377

  Ibeagha Awemu, Eveline M ^a   Kgwatalala, Patrick M ^a   Zhao, Xin ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Calcium and body weight and obesity; Calcium and cardiovascular diseases; Calcium and osteoporosis; Calcium bioavailability in milk and dairy products; Calcium from milk and dairy products; Calcium, abundant mineral in human body; Campaign for milk and dairy foods consumption being intensified; Health improving potential of calcium; Lead, ubiquitous environmental poison to any form of life; Nephrolithiasis, disease of kidney kidney stones of calcium oxalate type

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955636429     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780813821504.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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