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Response to Fenton and Fenton: evidence does not support the alkaline diet

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  1. Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, 711 Washington St., Boston, MA, 02111, USA

    B. Dawson-Hughes

  2. Synthesis Medical NZ Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand

    P. J. Mitchell

  3. University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney, Australia

    P. J. Mitchell

  4. NIHR Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Nuffield, Department of Orthopaedics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    C. Cooper

  5. MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK

    C. Cooper

  6. Division of Adolescent and Transition Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, USA

    C. M. Gordon

  7. Division of Bone Diseases, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland

    R. Rizzoli

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Dawson-Hughes, B., Mitchell, P.J., Cooper, C. et al. Response to Fenton and Fenton: evidence does not support the alkaline diet. Osteoporos Int 27, 2389–2390 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-016-3505-y

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