Quick, follow our advice! Wait, no, don't! Wait, sometimes! Ok, just eat food. Maybe! Sigh.
Quick, follow our advice! Wait, no, don't! Wait, sometimes! Ok, just eat food. Maybe! Sigh.
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/diet-fitness/calcium-supplements-or-dairy-doesnt-strengthen-bones-study-finds-n435726
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/diet-fitness/calcium-supplements-or-dairy-doesnt-strengthen-bones-study-finds-n435726
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/diet-fitness/calcium-supplements-or-dairy-doesnt-strengthen-bones-study-finds-n435726
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/diet-fitness/calcium-supplements-or-dairy-doesnt-strengthen-bones-study-finds-n435726
Milk it does the body...nothing much really. At least in today's study. Tomorrow's will, of course, be very different.
ReplyDeleteA) of course it doesn't; the bodies of people over 50 are not, by and large, in the process of building new bone. People under 20 probably still need an excess of calcium, though. Maybe even under 30.
ReplyDeleteB) just because "too much" is bad doesn't mean "none" is good - your body can and will leach the calcium from bone if levels fall below those needed to maintain muscle signaling systems.
C) wouldn't it be nice if the concept of "middle ground" weren't anathema to so many people who read (and write) this sort of article?
Milk is yummy and can be used to make many other yummy things. I don't see it going anywhere...
ReplyDeleteThe article does say, although it's a bit buried, that you should get your calcium from food, as opposed to supplements and dairy you would not otherwise have eaten.
ReplyDeleteThe prevailing wisdom having been for everyone to take extra Vit D, extra Ca2+, extra dairy products because calcium and vitamin D. The point of which was to reduce the risk of fractures later in life. Fractures, as in, not because you hit a tree, but because your osteoclasts were pac-manning your bones and somehow deficiencies in calcium and its metabolism were thought to be the issue. These fractures being a significant cause of permanent disability and a proximate cause of death in many older individuals.
Now there are concerns, as noted in the article, that all the extra, non-dietary supplementation is doing nothing to strengthen bones and resist fractures, but may even be causing vascular and kidney problems in some cases.
Woo, or, you know, moo.