Calcium and Nutrition

This website provides information about just how important calcium is to the body. Low doses of calcium can lead to a loss in bone mass and higher risk in bone fractures. The website also provides examples of food that will help increase the intake of calcium.
http://www.pamf.org/patients/CalciumHandout.html

Calcium Uses

Calcium Uses

• for strong teeth and bones
• minimize bone loss
• prevent osteoporosis
• for muscles
• for nerves
• blood clots
• manage weigh
• manage high blood pressure
• colon cancer
• kidney stones
• cardiovascular disease

Recommended adequate intake by the IOM for calcium

Recommended adequate intake by the IOM for calcium:
Age                                                     Calcium (mg/day)
0-6 months                                                      210
7-12 months                                                    270
1-3 years                                                         500
4-8 years                                                         800
9-18 years                                                       1300
19-50 years                                                     1000
51+ years                                                        1200

Poor Health makes Osteoporosis Common in the U.S.

This article provides information that people with poor health can get osteoporosis. 50% of women between the ages of 45-70. Osteoporosis is a weakening of the bones whereby they become brittle and can easily fracture (Natural News).
http://www.naturalnews.com/028826_osteoporosis_health.html

Calcium and Vitamin supplements reduce breast cancer risk

Here is an article about calcium and how it helps reduce breast cancer by 40%. It doesn't reduce it the next day, but slowly everyday it helps reduce breast cancer.
http://www.naturalnews.com/029936_vitamins_breast_cancer.html

Calcium Information

~Calcium uses proper blood clotting
~Calcium has 3 major regulators blood calcium are: Parathryoid hormone (PTH), Vitamin D, Calcitonin
~Dietary calcium is absorbed in the small intestine

Vitamin D3 and Calcium to Prevent Hip Fractures in Elderly Women

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199212033272305
This newspaper article explains that by having an intake of vitamin D3 and Calcium that elderly women can preven hip fractures by 43%. The women who took the calcium and the vitamin D3 were able to make their bone density a lot stronger and were able to handle more pressures on their bones.