Health Tip: 1200 MG of Calcium and Vitamin D (1000 Units) Means Healthy Bones
Bone Health is Essential to Your Quality of Life and it Isn't Hard to Do
The last part is through no fault of your own, there are classes of medications out there that leach calcium from your bones and can give you osteoporosis and other things, like brittle teeth.
When you're young the standard line is to drink something like six or eight glasses of mile per day to make sure you have healthy bones and teeth, and this is great advice. It's advice you to follow as long as you can.
There may come a point in life, though, where you are not able to follow this advice. The reason could be that your doctor is afraid that milk products might raise our cholestrol level. Or, it may also be that you become lactose-intolerant, so you have to put milk in the back of the refrigerator.shelf.
Meantime, you live your life without thinking of your bones and then one day the inevitable break happens and you may find it take longer to heal because you haven't treated your bones right.
How do you treat your bones correctly? It's really simple: before I hit the rack at night I take 1200 milligrams of calcium (2 huge horse pills, if you will) with a little water. And, take about 1000 milligrams of Vitamin D to help out. In fact, medical research recently pointed to the interaction between Vitamin D and Calcium for bone health.
That's all it takes to keep your bones as healthy as possible (I take calcium-leaching drugs and need this stuff).
How healthy does this keep your bones? I regularly have to take bone-density scans because of some of the medications that I take. My specialist has pushed them out to about two years now and my last scan last spring found little or no calcium loss (actually, it was less than 0.01 percent).
That's all it takes for healthy bones. Now that wasn't hard, was it?!
Oh yes, I still drink milk, although my tummy really doesn't like it anymore, but it still tastes good.
Published by Marc Stern
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