Author: Dr. Cynthia Brown
Confused About Calcium?
Several of you have asked us about a recently published medical study that triggered media attention. Headlines like the Washington Post’s “Study: Milk may not be very good for bones or the body” have drawn readers to a Swedish study that linked high milk intake in women to a higher risk of bone fractures and of death from other causes.
For a generation of women who have spent our adult lives trying to ensure that our diets provided enough calcium to protect us from the terrible effects of osteoporosis (weakening of bones), this was indeed disturbing news. Should women…