Meet Your Daily Calcium Intake

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By nisya

Published: January 10, 2010

In order for day-to-day activities can run up, you need strong and healthy bones. For that, necessary intake of healthy foods and contain calcium.

Osteoporosis or bone loss is a metabolic bone disease characterized by bone loss until the bones break easily. If it so, of course, one activity will be disrupted. For that, it takes a sufficient intake of calcium for strong and healthy bones.

The results of a study sayss, women who get the daily calcium intake from food would have stronger bones than women who got it from tablet supplements.

Calcium is important to prevent osteoporosis, which affects estimated eight million American women, and two million men. As many as 34 million others, have low bone density that increases the risk of osteoporosis.

A study published the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the study of 183 postmenopausal women concluded, consumption of adequate calcium can help prevent bone density and decrease the required calcium from bone.

In the study, researchers asked the women in detail about the diet and calcium supplement intake for a week. “We assume that this represents the type of diet every woman,” said assistant professor of the Division of Bone and Mineral Diseases Barnes-Jewish Hospital Reina Armamento-Villareal, MD.

Calcium derived from natural food is better than that contained in the supplements. However, does not mean that supplements are useless. Especially for those who consume less natural foods that contain calcium.

Studies were conducted by Italian researchers reported, L-Carnitine supplementation may reduce fatigue and promote mental function in older people. In fact, can significantly increase bone density and reduces fat mass.

“L-carnitine, a molecule such as vitamin that has some important role in helping the body cells produce energy from fat. High concentrations of molecules found in parts of the body with high-energy requirements, such as skeletal muscle and heart. On the whole, the concentration of L-carnitine decline after the age of 70, “said researchers from the University of Catania Dr. Mariano Malguarnera and colleagues report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition as quoted by Reuters

People given L-carnitine is also able to walk 4 meters farther during 6-minute walking test after treatment than those given placebo. Participants in the study of L-carnitine group also reported significant changes in the mental, physical, and eliminate fatigue.

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