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Calcium-Rich Foods: Better Than Calcium Supplements?
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Summary: Calcium from calcium rich foods is the best way to get your daily calcium requirements. Do you know the many forms of calcium? Calcium citrate, calcium carbonate, calcium ascorbate, egg shell, bone meal, egg shell and microcrystalline hydroxyapetite. But which is best and do calcium supplements play a role in your health? The answer is to eat a balance diet with an emphasis on the calcium rich plant foods combined with a high quality calcium supplement.
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Calcium Rich Foods
NewsFlash!! Study finds calcium rich foods are better for you than calcium
from supplements. Huh? Wouldn't any reasonable person already know that
vitamins and minerals are better if consumed through your diet and not
from supplements? What possessed someone to even study this subject?
Doesn't it just make sense?
Amazingly, the researchers at the Washington University School of
Medicine said, "Though not definitive, the women who get the most of
their calcium from food have healthier bones and higher bone density
than women whose calcium comes mainly from supplemental tablets." Not
definitive?
They went on to speculate, "Calcium from dietary sources is generally
better absorbed than that from supplements, which could help to explain
the difference...". What a hard concept....no wonder they get the big
bucks!
I am always astounded at the lack of common sense surrounding the study
of vitamins and minerals. But realize that conventionally trained
medical researchers as well as physicians have none or very little
nutritional training and generally believe that diet has very little to
do with health. Talk about your head in the sand.
Though vitamins and minerals are studied everyday, few researchers take
into consideration the variables associated with any given nutrient.
With calcium, there are a number of different types of molecules of it
to study: calcium carbonate, citrate, ascorbate, egg shell, bone meal,
oyster shell and the most absorbable, microcrystalline hydroxyapetite.
There are also differences in dosage or the quality of manufacture.
Please note that coral calcium is a gigantic scam.
The lack of critical thought process by researchers to even think that
perhaps calcium from food would NOT be superior to a supplement is
illustrated here. But let's get real as far as our understanding.
Calcium from food is obviously superior to that from supplements, but
supplements do have a role in maintaining our health. Growing children,
pregnant women and pre and post menopausal women as well as men...at a
lower dosage...all can benefit from the absorbable calcium found in
plant material (from dairy is poorly absorbed) and calcium dietary
supplements.
But which supplement? Studies have found for decades that
microcrystalline hydroxyapetite is easily the most absorbable calcium
available. It is crushed bone which provides not only the calcium women
need, but also all the other minerals found in the bone matrix. This is
a very important point as bones are not just made of calcium....which
is the softest of all the minerals in bone...but also eight or nine
other, much harder minerals.
Taking this calcium supplement with Vitamin D increases the effectiveness of it.
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