The vitamin D requirement during human lactation: The facts and IOM's 'utter' failure

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 748-749

  Hollis, Bruce W ^a   Wagner, Carol L ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

BREAST MILK; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION; LACTATION; LETTER; MATERNAL NUTRITION; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; PHYSIOLOGY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; INFANT, NEWBORN; LACTATION; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MILK, HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS; VITAMIN D;

EID: 79955975400     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980011000309     Document Type: Letter

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