Bone boosters; the facts are in - building better bones means more than just adding milk.
Saturday Evening Post › Nbr. 258, January 1986
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Bone boosters; the facts are in - building better bones means more than just adding milk.
BONE BOOSTERS
To many adults, calcium is kids' stuff. "Drink your milk, Junior, and grow up to be big and strong," mom always said. But recent research suggests calcium requirements may increase, not decrease, with age, and mom herself is most vulnerable. Typically, Americans absorb only 10 to 30 percent of the calcium they consume, and that level dips as the years pass. Hormonal changes, poor diet, and the aging process thwart calcium absorption. Although the body tries to maintain the balance of calcium in...See the full content of this document
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