Section One: Nutritional Aspects of Skeletal Diseases ! Section Two: Feeding for Growth, Repair, and Stress Section One Nutritional Aspects of Skeletal Diseases

Skeletal diseases may be induced by malnutrition that involves certain nutrients, notably calcium, phosphorus, and vitamin D, but also iodine, copper, zinc, manganese, fluorine, silicon, vitamin A and perhaps vitamin C, as well as protein and energy. The number of these nutrients and their interactions is so large that dietary intervention in bone abnormalities is likely to be most effective if directed at consumption of a diet that is completely balanced for growth, maturity, old age, or stress. Substitution of a good diet for a bad one is also likely to be more convenient and safer than most attempts at partial supplementation of the faulty diet in order to bring it into balance.