Young people tend to cut down on bone-strengthening dairy products as they enter their 20s — just when their body needs it most, new research finds. In a study by researchers at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, a majority of the 1,500 participants reduced their calcium intake in high school and the years immediately following high school. More than … Read More
Dairy Foods are Best Source of Calcium
A Purdue University study shows dairy foods have an advantage over calcium carbonate in promoting bone growth and strength. Connie Weaver, distinguished professor and head of the food and nutrition department, found that the bones of rats fed nonfat dry milk were longer, wider, more dense and stronger than those of rats fed a diet with calcium carbonate. Calcium carbonate … Read More
New Calcium Study Shows Promising Cancer-Fighting
A study in nearly half a million older men and women bolsters evidence that diets rich in calcium may help protect against some cancers. The study was run jointly by the National Institutes of Health and AARP. The results appear in Monday’s Archives of Internal Medicine. The benefits were mostly associated with foods high in calcium, rather than calcium tablets. … Read More
High Calcium Intake and Weight
The journal Nutrition Reviews recently released a review of research that found a positive link between high calcium intake and improved body composition and weight maintenance. The study concluded that high calcium intake may affect body composition through some combination of reducing body fat mass while maintaining lean body mass, reducing weight gain and increasing weight loss on calorie-restricted diets. … Read More
Calcium 'Taste' Discovered
The capability to taste calcium has now been discovered in mice. With these rodents and humans sharing many of the same genes, the new finding suggests that people might also have such a taste. The four tastes we are most familiar with are sweet, sour, salty and bitter. Recently scientists have discovered tongue molecules called receptors that detect a fifth … Read More