Optimizing bone mass and strength
Subtitle: the role of physical activity and nutrition during growth
By: volume editors, Robin M. Daly, Moira A. Petit.
Contributors: Daly, Robin M.; Petit, Moira A.
Series: Medicine and sport science -- v. 51
Publisher: Karger
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Basel; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783805582759
Subjects: Bones -- Growth; Children -- Nutrition -- Health aspects; Exercise for children -- Health aspects; Bone Development -- physiology; Adolescent; Child; Exercise -- physiology; Fractures, Bone -- prevention & control; Nutrition Physiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Osteoporosis : a paediatric concern? / R.A. Faulkner, D.A. Bailey; title: The biomechanical basis of bone strength development during growth / S.A. Kontulainen ... [et al.]; title: The effect of exercise on bone mass and structural geometry during growth / R.M. Daly; title: Evidence for an interaction between exercise and nutrition for improved bone health during growth B. Specker, M. Vukovich; title: Gene-environmental interactions in the skeletal response to nutrition and exercise during growth / J.-P. Bonjour ... [et al.]; title: The effect of energy balance on endocrine function and bone health in youth / C. Zanker, K. Hind; title: Risk factors for fractures in normally active children and adolescents / A. Goulding; title: Does exercise during growth prevent fractures in later life? / M.K. Karlsson; title: Lessons learned from school-based skeletal loading intervention trials : putting research into practice / J.M. Hughes, S.A. Golner, M.A. Petit.