Thursday, October 7, 2010

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

Saturday, September 25, 2010

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.