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Article: Osteoporosis: calcium matters - but how? (part 2)
- Article from:
- Nutrition Health Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 1996
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Osteoporosis is a modern plague, one that is found almost entirely in industrialized, Westernized societies. Conventional medical wisdom tells us that the causes of osteoporosis are calcium deficiencies and deficiencies of estrogen in women. But the areas of the world where there is large-scale usage of dairy products and estrogen therapy for women are those with the highest incidence of osteoporosis. Extensive use of dairy products, it would seem, does not prevent osteoporosis.
What about sources of calcium other than dairy products? Is calcium important at all? You may be amazed to know that a number of investigators now believe that intake of calcium is largely ...