Dietary calcium intake and obesity in adult women : the POWIRS study / Petro Hannie Rautenbach

Background: The role of dietary calcium in weight management is gaining support in the nutrition research community. It has been hypothesized that high calcium diets protect against fat gain by creating a balance of lipolysis over lipogenesis in adipocytes (Zemel et al., 2000) and that a diet defici...

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Main Author: Rautenbach, Petro Hannie
Published: North-West University 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10394/615