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Strontium⁹⁰ and Milk: Estimates of the Dietary Significance of Changes in Milk Consumption ¹

Laboratory of Biochemistry, Department of Dairy Science, University of Illinois, Urbana

ABSTRACT

Extensive studies have indicated that the presence of milk in the average diet in the United States has been a significant factor in reducing the population bone burden of Sr⁹⁰ below that which would have resulted from the same diet without milk. This has resulted because the level of Sr⁹⁰ depositing in human bone has been shown to be dependent on the Sr⁹⁰/Ca ratio present in the total diet, and milk has contained a lower Sr⁹⁰/Ca ratio than the average of the other foods in the diet. Estimates have been made to relate the effects of possible changes in milk consumption on the resultant Sr⁹⁰/Ca ratio in the diet. Analyses of the Sr⁹⁰/Ca ratios that have been observed in milk and the remainder of the diet indicate that postulated practices such as even the removal of most of the Sr⁹⁰ from milk might actually increase the bone deposition level of Sr⁹⁰ if accompanied by a significant decrease in milk consumption.

¹ This paper presents interpretations of the available data and some original calculations of its significance in relating the role of milk in the Sr⁹⁰ problem. For these reasons, the paper is considered as a research contribution even though it contains much review material. Editor-in-Chief.