Extra Calcium Does Not Equate to Healthier Bone Mass, Say Researchers
New study shows women consuming 750 mg of calcium had the lowest risk of hip fractures; yet, women who consumed more calcium did not have a lower risk.
Consuming extra calcium has long been postured as a method to maintain healthy bone mass. Yet, evidence continues to build that getting enough calcium is essential to bone health, but getting more does not offer additional benefits.
Some of this contra-indication information originates from Uppsala University researchers in Sweden, who analyzed over 61,000 women that participated in an earlier Swedish study. Apparently women consuming 750 mg of calcium had the lowest risk of hip fractures; yet, women who consumed more calcium did not have a lower risk.
“Maintaining healthy bones requires more than just adequate calcium intake,” say boomer generation health experts Dian Griesel, Ph.D., and Tom Griesel, authors of the new book TurboCharged: Accelerate Your Fat Burning Metabolism, Get Lean Fast and Leave Diet and Exercise Rules in the Dust (April 2011, BSH). “A healthy diet and adequate activity levels are critical ingredients. Our bodies react and absorb vitamins and minerals much more efficiently when they are consumed the way nature delivered them. Vitamins A, D and K play critical roles along with other minerals like magnesium. Proper balance is the key and this can best be accomplished by consuming a variety of natural food.”
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“Refined foods have an acidifying effect on our bodies, and calcium is the mineral mainly used to counteract this,” adds Tom Griesel. “Consumption of refined and processed foods and sodas—along with other items that have this acid effect—will upset our calcium balance, causing bone mass to be lost.”
“Although people generally depend on dairy products for their daily calcium, overconsumption should be avoided,” Dian Griesel elaborates. “There are many other options which should be included in any healthy balanced diet. Calcium can be found in herring, sardines and other whole canned fish. Dark green vegetables such as kale, spinach, collard, broccoli, lettuce, turnip greens, beet greens and parsley contain not only calcium but Vitamin K which researchers have found important to proper bone formation.”
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