Calcium
This mineral is critical to keeping bones healthy and strong. If you don\u2019t regularly consume dairy products or other calcium-rich foods (such as spinach), keeping up with your calcium needs is tricky.<\/p>\n
Adults should get 1,000 mg of calcium a day; women ages 51 and older and men ages 71 and older need 1,200 mg. But 4 in 10 adults didn\u2019t get that amount, according to a 2024 study in the journal Nutrients. (One cup of whole-milk yogurt contains 300 mg.)<\/p>\n
“If you don\u2019t get enough calcium from your diet, your body will pull it from your bones,” says Bess Dawson-Hughes, MD, a professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. One widely known consequence of calcium deficiency is osteoporosis, a disease that raises the risk for bone breaks and fractures.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re at risk for osteoporosis (about half of women 50 and older are), if you have osteoporosis, or if you don\u2019t get enough calcium from food, consider a supplement.<\/p>\n
Pay attention to the amount: Too much calcium can raise your risk for constipation, kidney problems, and\u2014according to some research\u2014heart attacks. Talk to your doctor about the right dose.<\/p>\n
You shouldn\u2019t get more than 2,500 mg if you\u2019re under age 51; those older should limit their intake to 2,000 mg. Calcium carbonate is generally the most economical type, but if you find it constipating, try calcium citrate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CalciumThis mineral is critical to keeping bones healthy and strong. If you don\u2019t regularly consume dairy products or…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[14527,33456,103,61,60,21782,101721,77727,5789,37008,446,17380],"class_list":["post-188743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-calcium","tag-fish-oil","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-iron","tag-kava","tag-kratom","tag-magnesium","tag-melatonin","tag-nutrition","tag-probiotics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}