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Advances in Nutrition

Volume 4, Issue 2, March 2013, Pages 151-156
Advances in Nutrition

Dairy Intake, Dietary Adequacy, and Lactose Intolerance

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Abstract

Despite repeated emphasis in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans on the importance of calcium in the adult American diet and the recommendation to consume 3 dairy servings a day, dairy intake remains well below recommendations. Insufficient health professional awareness of the benefits of calcium and concern for lactose intolerance are among several possible reasons, This mini-review highlights both the role of calcium (and of dairy, its principal source in modern diets) in health maintenance and reviews the means for overcoming lactose intolerance (real or perceived).

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Preparation of this paper was supported by Creighton University Research Funds and by an unrestricted educational grant from the National Dairy Council.

Author disclosure: R. P. Heaney, no conflicts of interest.