Word: calcium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pain to hospital emergency rooms. I happen to mention an increased sensitivity to salt in my diet, resulting in a parched mouth, information that he dutifully jots down in my chart while observing, "Maybe your body is talking to you." Then he tells me that salt tends to precipitate calcium, a common component of kidney stones, out of the bloodstream into the kidneys. He informs me that excessive vitamin C can do the same thing. I note that my kidney specialist in New York City never told me about these two contributing factors...
...Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Sweden consume lots of milk and also suffer high rates of breast cancer, the former must cause the latter. Another clunker is Cohen's claim that widespread lactose intolerance--the inability to digest dairy products--means milk is of little use as a source of calcium. In fact, many cases of lactose intolerance are mild and interfere only slightly with calcium uptake. Many people intolerant of milk can easily digest yogurt. And lactase tablets can make dairy products digestible even in severe cases...
Soda lovers, before your next gulp, consider this: A preliminary report on men suggests that drinking 4 1/2 cans a day of fructose-filled pop may cause the body to lose calcium and phosphorus--two minerals essential for strong bones...
BLOCK THE BLOCKERS More problems for one of the top-selling kinds of blood-pressure drugs--calcium-channel blockers. Already slammed for their link to cancer and other ailments, the pills may also raise the risk of suicide--and, in people with diabetes, heart attack...
...think they are kind of interesting to read," she says. "Like last week, I didn't know that tofu has calcium...