Calcium for Health (08)

Calcium and Children: How to Get More Calcium Nutrition into Your Kids
In addition to a list of calcium rich foods, this site also provides ways to get your kids to eat more foods with calcium. Tips include encouraging your child to drink more milk, using dairy products in different ways (including the use of powdered milk in recipes) and using vegetables that are calcium rich foods. It does mention letting your child have children's calcium supplements if they don't eat a lot of foods high in calcium, but says that it's better to let your child eat calcium rich foods.

Are Calcium Supplements Enough?
Calcium nutrition is always in the news and this time it's because of a study conducted by Dr. Reina Armamento-Villareal of the Washington University School of Medicine. Her research says that foods high in calcium may do more to protect bones than taking calcium supplements such as calcium magnesium supplements and coral calcium. She said those who take supplements and eat calcium rich foods have better bone density than those who just reply on calcium supplements.

Food Sources of Calcium to Prevent Kidney Stones
This site explains the role of calcium nutrition and kidney stones. It includes a list of food sources of calcium and says that diets for managing calcium kidney stones have adequate calcium nutrition for most adults. Being attentive to how much calcium rich foods you intake is vital to prevent and manage kidney stones. It also explains hypercalciuria, a condition when there is too much calcium nutrition in urine. In certain cases, the stones can be prevented by controlling how many foods high in calcium you eat.

Calcium Nutrition Standards: What You Should be Getting from Calcium Rich Foods and Calcium Supplements
Calcium nutrition is vital for building strong bones, but it also helps your muscles contract and relax, your heart beat and your blood clot. Low calcium nutrition can lead to hypertension, bone loss in the jaw and osteoporosis. This listing provides the recommended calcium nutrition intake daily for adults, and includes foods that stop calcium from being absorbed in the system. These foods fight calcium rich foods and include alcohol, caffeine, fiber, sodium and protein. Note the recommended dosages for those, too, since fiber and protein, especially, are healthy.

Calcium and Hypertension: Pre-Eclampsia
Can calcium reduce the condition known as pre-eclampsia, which affects about 5 percent of all pregnant women? Not so, according to this article, which describes a study on the effects of calcium and hypertension in pregnant women. It covers a clinical trial that did not find evidence that calcium supplements during pregnancy prevent preeclampsia, pregnancy-associated hypertension or proteinuria in healthy women.