For example: green leafy vegetables and legumes (beans, peas, and lentils) contain calcium, and are also rich in fiber and other nutrients that protect against cancer.
You'll also find plenty of calcium in supplements like fortified soy milk. Calcium-fortified juices are now widely available in market. However, it is important to remember that increased calcium intake may be one of the reasons why milk is linked to prostate cancer (because high calcium intakes interfere with vitamin D activation).
You can find more info in Prostate Cancer post.
Therefore, you should be consider equally cautious about any product that is extremely high in calcium (like fortified foods or supplements). In my suggestion,
green leafy vegetables and beans are your best calcium sources. They have adequate
calcium, but not excessive amounts. :)
We need calcium to preventing the bone-thinning condition or osteoporosis.
However, dairy industry has pushed drinking milk as calcium sources for preventing osteoporosis, but studies show that the strategy is largely useless.
Let me explain in more details regarding my fact from medical source:
"Researchers at Pennsylvania State University found that, in girls in their
peak bone-building years (ages 12 to 18). Getting extra calcium made no difference at all in bone growth. Exercise worked very well to foster bone growth, but extra calcium did not.
Similarly, in the Nurses?Health Study,a group of nearly 78,000 women followed for 12 years showed that dairy calcium didn't help bone strength at all.
Women who got the most calcium from dairy sources actually had nearly double the hip fracture rates, compared to those who got little or no dairy calcium."
So, my question is,
How do I protect my bones? Does i has any alternatives to replace milk as calcium source?
Well, here are the answers to you:
1) Exercise:
Exercise strengthens bones noticeably.
2) Vitamin D:
From sunlight or vitamin supplements ?helps keep bones strong.
3) Fruits and vegetables provide vitamin C to build collagen, which forms the
basic network of tissue within your bones.
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