Foods and their Calcium content

Woops! As promised in yesterday's email message, here is the list of foods and their calcium content. Click here to see the list...

Calcium and Atherosclerosis

  This is the current issue of the journal OBG Management and, as you can see, the cover story is by Dr. Goldstein. It is an update in bone health specifically addressing calcium supplements and their role in cardiovascular disease. In 2001 a National Institutes of Health (NIH) consensus panel on osteoporosis concluded that calcium intake is indeed crucial to maintain bone mass and should be maintained at 1,000-1,500 mg/day in older adults. That panel felt that the majority of old...