High Calcium Intake May Not Help Prevent Fractures, Reports The Harvard Health Letter

For years, getting a lot of calcium has been portrayed as one of the best things you could do to prevent osteoporosis and related bone fractures. Small study results supported this view. But when researchers started to crunch the data from large, prospective studies that followed people for many years, the benefits weren’t so clear-cut, reports the March 2008 issue of the Harvard Health Letter.

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Filed under: Bones on February 26th, 2008