Calcium Supplements Increase Heart Attacks
Ok, if there was one nutrition fact I thought I knew, it was that women should make sure they get plenty of calcium to help prevent osteoporosis. Now a study of post-menopausal women showed that ones who took calcium pills had significantly more heart attacks than women who took a placebo. There was some increase in strokes in the calcium group as well.
The study doesn’t look at pre-menopausal women, so it’s unclear what the impact might be in younger age groups. Just when I thought I was doing something healthy, it may come back to haunt me. Wonderful.
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