Forget About Calcium Supplements  

It has been known for quite some time that just taking calcium supplements does not really build strong bones. Vitamin D, as you have said, is essential. So is a balance of other minerals, including magnesium. Weight bearing and muscle building exercise, like stretching and walking do increase bone density. Especially for younger women under thirty.

Back to basics. Everything from plants is good for us. Most things manufactured in
plants are bad. Food from the oceans is good. However food contaminated from effluents emitted from plants is no good.

I think that this is just one doctors opinion. I think that you should do what is best for you, what you think is right. There are so many tests and so many options, that it seems nobody has a definite standard. If this works for you, go for it.

I think this is prefect, yes balanced diet, exercise and natural form of calcium is most important..

Hi Jonjee,

Thanks for sharing this article on the latest update on the use of calcium. My doctor also advice me drink more milk while i am still young. We need to have a reserve of calcium in our body. And milk is one of the best source of calcium. Once we have reserve calcium once women reach menopause it will not be so hard for them especially in maintaining a stronger bone after we stop producing hormones.

It is interesting, my friend. But my own doctor gave me some calcium suplement that includes vitamin D. Could it depend on age? Hormones change during life. Post menopausal women don´t have the same amount of hormones nor do women who have had a total hysterectomy. And it is also proven that there is risk of cancer when women take hormone suplements.
There is another variable too. Genes are important. Some people have more posibilities of having osteoporosis than others. And traumas are factors of risk too.
Have a nice day!

Duh! Like if you buy this calcium supplements (I just call them calcium vitamins :P)
There is always D vitamin included, which helps calcium to get into your weak bones or not so weak ones :D It really helps and works! So don't listen to her and eat your calcium (together with D vitamin) :D

This is Al Sears opinion if you would ask some others some might agree with him and others would not. These MDs are always telling us one things and then someone else tells us something else. I take Calcium tablets with vitamin D not only for strong bones but I have been told that it will help keep your legs from cramping. I am sure that Calcium tablets are good for other things beside just these two.

I seldom take calcium tablets,in my opinion,the best way to keep heath and calcium supplement is keeping a good habit of diet and doing exercise constantly.