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Calcium-Rich Foods: Better Than Calcium Supplements?
By Dr. David Dahlman, DC ©
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Summary: Calcium from calcium rich foods is the best way to get your daily calcium requirements. Do you know the many forms of calcium? Calcium citrate, calcium carbonate, calcium ascorbate, egg shell, bone meal, egg shell and microcrystalline hydroxyapetite. But which is best and do calcium supplements play a role in your health? The answer is to eat a balance diet with an emphasis on the calcium rich plant foods combined with a high quality calcium supplement.
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NewsFlash!! Study finds calcium from food better for you than calcium from supplements. Huh? Wouldn't any reasonable person already know that vitamins and minerals are better if consumed through your diet and not from supplements? What possesed someone to even study this subject? Doesn't it just make sense?
Amazingly, the researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine said, "Though not definitive, the women who get the most of their calcium from food have healthier bones and higher bone density than women whose calcium comes mainly from supplemental tablets." Not definitive?
They went on to speculate, "Calcium from dietary sources is generally better absorbed than that from supplements, which could help to explain the difference...". What a hard concept....no wonder they get the big bucks!
I am always astounded at the lack of common sense surrounding the study of vitamins and minerals. But realize that conventionally trained medical researchers as well as physicians have none or very little nutritional training and generally believe that diet has very little to do with health. Talk about your head in the sand.
Though vitamins and mierals are studied everyday, few researchers take into consideration the variables associated with any given nutrient. With calcium, there are a number of different types of molecules of it to study: calcium carbonate, citrate, ascorbate, egg shell, bone meal, oyster shell and the most absorbable, microcrystalline hydroxyapetite. There are also differences in dosage or the quality of manufacture. Please note that coral calcium is a gigantic scam.
The lack of critical thought process by researchers to even think that perhaps calcium from food would NOT be superior to a supplement is illustrated here. But let's get real as far as our understanding.
Calcium from food is obviously superior to that from supplements, but supplements do have a role in maintaining our health. Growing children, pregnant women and pre and post menopausal women as well as men...at a lower dosage...all can benefit from the absorbable calcium found in plant material (from dairy is poorly absorbed) and calcium dietary supplements.
But which supplement? Studies have found for decades that microcrystalline hydroxyapetite is easily the most absorbable calcium available. It is crushed bone which provides not only the calcium women need, but also all the other minerals found in the bone matrix. This is a very important point as bones are not just made of calcium....which is the softest of all the minerals in bone...but also eight or nine other, much harder minerals.
Taking this calcium supplement with Vitamin D increases the effectiveness of it. Try a product called Cal Apetite Forte (with Vitamin D) from my online store. Two per day for most of us and up to four each day for those worried about or suffering from osetoporosis.
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