Calcium and magnesium in drinking-water public health significance.

This book addresses whether or not calcium and magnesium ('hardness') in drinking water can contribute to preventing disease. It includes a comprehensive consensus view on what is known and what is not about the role and possible health benefit of calcium and magnesium in drinking-water. A...

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Awduron Corfforaethol: World Health Organization, ebrary, Inc
Fformat: Electronig eLyfr
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Cyhoeddwyd: Geneva, Switzerland : World Health Organization, c2009.
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Crynodeb:This book addresses whether or not calcium and magnesium ('hardness') in drinking water can contribute to preventing disease. It includes a comprehensive consensus view on what is known and what is not about the role and possible health benefit of calcium and magnesium in drinking-water. Also included is a series of chapters each authored by internationally renowned experts reviewing the state of the art in different aspects, including: global dietary calcium and magnesium intakes; the contribution of drinking water to calcium and magnesium intake; health significance of calcium and magnesium; role of drinking-water in relation to bone metabolism; epidemiological studies and the association of cardiovascular disease risks with water hardness and magnesium in particular; water production, technical issues and economics.--Publisher's description.
Disgrifiad Corfforoll:xi, 180 p. : ill.
Llyfryddiaeth:Includes bibliographical references and index.