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Eat Healthy! Five Foods That Help Prevent Osteoporosis – and Five That Don’t

Diet and exercise. Diet and exercise.How often have you heard or read these words when boning up on osteoporosis prevention? Constantly, right?That’s because diet and exercise are key to prevention of osteoporosis. And it’s not just the over-60 crowd that should be concerned with a healthy diet, and plenty of weight-bearing exercise.... Read moreChevron
posted 05/09/2011, comments (0)|
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Calcium Supplements Questionably Linked to Heart Disease

Rumors keep resurfacing about a questionable link between calcium supplementation and heart disease. Just the other day an older woman asked me if it was still O.K. for her to take calcium because she had heard that calcium was "bad for women". Hearing about such a rumor nearly caused my eyes to pop out of my head. I could only answer, "I have not... Read moreChevron
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Calcium Supplements: Too Much of a Good Thing?

“Drink your milk.”It’s a refrain we started hearing years ago, when Mom would set a brimming glassful of milk in front of us two or even three times a day. Whether it was hot cocoa at breakfast, milk and cookies after school, or the beverage of choice at supper, for most of us milk was a key part of our childhood diet.Some of us... Read moreChevron
posted 03/07/2011, comments (0)|
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Top 20 Calcium Rich Foods

  Many of us are trying to get most of our calcium from foods, but we may have trouble finding the calcium amounts, on our favorite foods, or new things we would like to try that are calcium-rich.   Getting adequate amounts of calcium throughout the day can be difficult, if you are lactose intolerant, have trouble with absorption of... Read moreChevron
posted 01/30/2011, comments (5)|
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Are you Tracking your Calcium? Try a Calculator

Many of us are trying to get most, if not all, our calcium from diet, but sometimes this can be hard to do and calculate.  If you aren't getting enough of your daily requirement from food, then you'll have to supplement with calcium.  If you are eating dairy products with this information on the package, that's great, but what about the... Read moreChevron
posted 01/21/2011, comments (2)|
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