Dietary intake and stress fractures among elite male combat recruits

Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition

Volumn 9, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Moran, Daniel S ^a,b   Heled, Yuval ^a   Arbel, Yael ^a   Israeli, Eran ^c   Finestone, Aharon S ^a,d   Evans, Rachel K ^e   Yanovich, Ran ^a  

^a HELLER INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

^b ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e U S ARMY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Basic training; Bone; Calcium; Nutrition; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857940047     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15502783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1550-2783-9-6     Document Type: Article

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