NYTimes: Taking Calcium May Pose Heart Risks

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peggy_j
peggy_j Member Posts: 1,700
edited June 2014 in Bone Health and Bone Loss
Taking Calcium May Pose Heart Risks
 
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"Sufficient calcium intake is important, but my recommendation would be to get calcium from food, like low-fat milk and dairy products and mineral water rich in calcium, rather than from supplements," said Dr. Sabine Rohrmann, an author of the study and a professor with the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Zurich. Health authorities recommend that most adults get about 1,100 milligrams a day. 
 
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  • otter
    otter Member Posts: 6,099
    edited May 2012

    Here's a link to the original research article, thanks to Kathy044 who posted it over on the "Clinical Trials, Research, etc." forum:

    http://heart.bmj.com/content/98/12/920.full

    Perplexing situation.

    otter

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  • Infobabe
    Infobabe Member Posts: 1,083
    edited May 2012

    peggy_j 

    I have heard/read in numerous places that little of calsium pills get to your bones.  so I wondered, where exactly does it go?  Calsium contributes to hardening of the arteries.  I might take a little but not much.  Greek yogurt is a better way to go. 

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  • peggy_j
    peggy_j Member Posts: 1,700
    edited May 2012

    Thanks Otter for posting that link. I'll have to read it when I have more time. I started looking at Table 1 and it was info-packed. Interesting to see that the non-diary intake of calcium is consistently around 325-350 mg for all patients (whether overall they had a high or low intact of calcium). This suggests to me that it's probably hard to get much more calcium from non-dairy foods. 

    Infobabe, yeah, I'd heard that taking too much calcium is bad and that it can lead to heart attacks. But this news seems like another level of concern. I think you're right that getting our nutrients from food is the way to go, if you can swing it. (I'm lactose intolerant, so I have my issues ;)

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  • purple32
    purple32 Member Posts: 3,188
    edited June 2012

    New info On taking CA supplements ?

    Hi all,

    A good friend of mine told me that she just heard on the news, a few nights ago that ALL CA. supplements have been determined to be useless and might as well be discarded !  She also said there was " some" SE!  What ? Kidney stones or more ?  She did not recall (Aaaargh!) 

     Have any of you heard this ?  With the biosphosphates  having long term "bone SEs" , Ca. is  something I felt good about....but now ?

    I would love  a link to this recent " News".


    Thanks for any reply- esp. a PM as well.

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