[Intake of calcium and vitamin D by the Pyrenean population]

Knowing the dietary intake of specific nutrients is a good base for planning the start of intervention methods aimed at correcting nutritional habits. Using the crude weight method, we have carried out the dietary assessment of the amounts of calcium and vitamin D ingested with the diet, in several populations of the Aragon Pyrenees. These levels are low, and this may be related to the high prevalence of disease whose etiology is directly or indirectly attributed to a calcium deficiency.