Low dairy intake in early childhood predicts excess body fat gain. Suboptimal dairy intakes during preschool in this cohort were associated with greater gains in body fat throughout childhood. Calcium and body fat in peripubertal girls: cross-sectional and longitudinal observations In this group of girls, an inverse cross-sectional association between calcium intake and body fat [...]
Dietary calcium deficiency results in calcium being placed where it does not belong – in the soft tissues – and this happens at the expense of our bones causing dysfunctions like hypertension, arteriosclerosis, type 2 diabetes, neurodegenerative diseases, obesity, metabolic syndrome, and degenerative joint disease. Inappropriate calcification occurs ironically due to a lack of calcium. [...]
By LUCHINA FISHER June 29, 2010 Gwyneth Paltrow’s announcement that she has osteopenia, a possible precursor to the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis — conditions usually found in older women — has some wondering if her extreme diet and exercise regimen is to blame. In her online newsletter GOOP, Paltrow, who is 37, revealed that she was [...]
Calcium deficiency, not sodium excess, is an overlooked link in hypertension (high blood pressure) likely due to overstimulation of parathyroid hormone (PTH). Don’t forget your dairy products and egg shells. Hypertension. 2000 May;35(5):1154-9. Relation between low calcium intake, parathyroid hormone, and blood pressure. Jorde R, Sundsfjord J, Haug E, Bonaa KH. Source Department of Medicine, [...]
Calcium deficiency, not sodium excess, is an overlooked link in hypertension (high blood pressure) likely due to overstimulation of parathyroid hormone (PTH). Don’t forget your dairy products and egg shells. Hypertension. 2000 May;35(5):1154-9. Relation between low calcium intake, parathyroid hormone, and blood pressure. Jorde R, Sundsfjord J, Haug E, Bonaa KH. Source Department of Medicine, [...]
