PEDIATRICS Vol. 117 No. 1 January 2006, pp. 259-260 (doi:10.1542/peds.2005-2091)
Calcium, Dairy Products, and Bone Health in Children and Young Adults: An Inaccurate Conclusion
Tanis R. Fenton, RDDepartment of Community Health Sciences
David A. Hanley, MD, FRCPC
Department of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4
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To the Editor.
The review by Lanou et al, "Calcium, Dairy Products, and Bone Health in Children and Young Adults: A Reevaluation of the Evidence,"1 is not really correct in concluding that "available evidence does not support nutrition guidelines focused specifically on increasing milk or other dairy-product intake for promoting child and adolescent bone mineralization." Leaving aside the fact that actual mineralization of bone tissue is really only assessed by bone biopsy, in reality, randomized, controlled trials of
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