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Article: Normalizing calcium intake: Projected population effects for body weight
- Article from:
- The Journal of Nutrition
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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CopyrightCopyright American Institute of Nutrition Jan 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Symposium: Dairy Product Components and Weight Regulation
Normalizing Calcium Intake: Projected Population Effects for Body Weight1,2
ABSTRACT Published data describing the inverse relationship between calcium intake and body weight in 564 women were evaluated for their dispersion around their means, and the fraction above any given weight or rate of weight gain was calculated from the parameters of the normal distribution for the variable concerned. At the 25th percentile of calcium intakes, 15% of young women were overweight, and that fraction fell to only 4% at calcium intakes in the range of currently recommended values. Similarly, obesity prevalence in this cohort fell from 1.4 to ...