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...that the pills provide little or no benefit against either condition. But as is so often the case with complicated health studies, it pays to dig beyond the headlines. First the news. A study of more than 36,000 healthy postmenopausal women determined that taking a standard calcium-and-vitamin-D supplement for seven years had no significant effect for most of them on preventing fractures in the spine, arms and hips, although it did lead to a 1% improvement in hip-bone density. Yet women who managed to take the vitamin-mineral combo at least four days...
...Sources of Vitamin D and Calcium Vitamin D (400 IU to 600 IU needed daily): sunlight (as much as 20,000 IU in 15 min. at midday), salmon (103 IU per oz., or 28 g), fortified milk (12.5 per fl. oz. [30 ml]), fortified orange juice...
...strongly influenced by genetics. One day we may be able to identify those at highest risk and urge them to take preventive measures. In the meantime, last month's Women's Health Initiative (WHI) report suggested that calcium pills offer only modest, if any, protection. I believe that supplemental vitamin D is more important than supplemental calcium. If you are getting enough vitamin D, particularly in early life, you should absorb calcium from foods efficiently. What is enough? I recommend at least 1,000 IUs daily taken with a fat-containing meal. (Women in the WHI study took only...
Because it’s not a leap year, the Bell Lap has felt an overwhelming pressure to consume a month’s worth of food and beverages within the space of a foreshortened February. Needless to say, drinking every variety of Vitamin Water in a single day has pretty much been par for the course. But when it comes to the more important subject of snacking, everyone knows that there is no better feeling than feeding a machine some money and having it reward you with delicious processed foodstuffs. It avoids the irksome “human?...
With all those caveats in mind, however, it seems clear that the benefits of calcium and vitamin D supplements are small for most women and probably fairly modest even for those at greatest risk of cancer or bone loss. In addition, the studies found that women who take extra calcium have a 17% greater risk of developing kidney stones...