Scientific Quotations on Bone Fractures

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Scientific Publication Quotations on Calcium and Bone Fracture Health Claims

"In 12 of the 19 studies on bone loss in which calcium intake was controlled, all 12 studies showed that calcium conferred a significant benefit".
R Henley, "Calcium and Osteoporosis: How Much is Enough", New England Journal of Medicine, 1993;328: 503-505, Pharmaceutical Information Associates Ltd.,

"The capacity of compensatory mechanisms to provide sufficient calcium to offset daily losses from the body declines with age, hence, increasingly the body tears down bone to access its calcium".
Robert Heaney, M.D., FACN, "Calcium Needs of the Elderly to Reduce Fracture Risk", Creighteon University, Osteoporosis Research Center, Omaha, Nebraska, Presented at the 41st Annual Meeting pf the American College of Nutrition at Las Vegas, Nevada, Oct 12, 2000.

"This review supports the current and public health policy of recommending increased calcium intake among older women for fracture prevention"
Robert Cumming and Michael Nevitt, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Sydney, Australia, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, Vol. 12, Number 9, 1997.

"A preventive effect on the risk of hip fracture may partly be achieved by using calcium supplements for a late prevention in elderly people"
P Meunier, "Prevention of Hip Fractures by Correcting Calcium Insufficiencies in Elderly People", Dept of Rheumat and Bone Disease Hospital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France

"In elderly women low calcium absorption and intake increases the risk of hip fracture".
Kristine Ensrud, M.D., Tu Duong, Jane Cauley, Robert Heaney, M.D., Randi Wolf, PhD., Emily Harris, PhD., Steven Cummings, M.D., "Low Fractional Calcium Absorption Increase the Risk for Hip Fracture in Women With Low Calcium Intake", Study of Osteoporotic Fractures Research Group, Ann Intern Med, 2000;132:345-353.

"Thus, oral calcium supplements prevented a femoral bone mineral density decrease and lowered vertebral fracture rate in the elderly".
T Chevalley, R Rizzoli, V. Nydegger, D Slosman, C Rapin, Jmichel, H Vasey, and J Bonjour, Effects of Calcium Supplements on Femoral Bone Mineral Density and Vertebral Fracture Rate in Patients", World Health Organization for Osteoporosis and Bone Disease, Department of Medicine, University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland.

"Intake of 1000mg of calcium seems necessary to maintain bone health in postmenopausal women and if this level cannot be achieved by diet, calcium supplements should be given".
Anthony Albanese, PhD., Calcium Nutrition in the Elderly", Burke Rehabilitation Center, White Plains, New York.

NOTE: Despite all of these massive scientific claims regarding the health benefits of calcium to cancer, blood pressure, kidney stones, bone fractures and menstrual disorders, Barefoot making reference to these facts in his infomercial has been outlawed by the FTC which refuses to accept any of the scientific substantiation.