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Dairy and calcium - not what you think
02/28/03 10:44 AM

Heather

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Hi - You can get calcium fortified soy milk, and since you're already taking a calcium supplement you may well be meeting your daily need. There are a lot of really interesting studies showing that dairy is not actually good for your bones after all - check the footnotes in Eating for IBS. The Harvard Nurses study (tracking 80,000 women over decades now) most recently re-confirmed this - the higher a woman's dairy intake, the MORE likely she was to suffer a bone break as she ages.

There's a good general page about this at http://www.makingpages.org/health/calcium.osteoporosis.html

It's got summaries of a lot of the info I've read the in-depth clinical research studies for. The information is definitely valid.

Best,
Heather

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02/28/03 09:19 AM

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02/28/03 12:48 PM

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