A final word about calcium
Calcium hs been recommended a number of times throughout this series. It is an essential nutrient and seems to have many disease prevention benefits.
Make sure you get enough Vitamin D to help with the absorption of the calcium. Both calcium and Vitamin D can also benefit your bone health and help ward off osteoporosis
There are a variety of reasons for this, some hormonal and some related to the fact that calcium absorption lessens in elderly intestines. Also, certain medications decrease the body’s ability to absorb calcium, including antacids .
Older adults need to be particularly conscious about the level of calcium in their diet and about which medications interfere with calcium absorption.
It’s best not to wait until you’re fifty-something to start preventing osteoporosis. Building stronger bones with a calcium-rich diet and weight-bearing exercise in your twenties and thirties is more likely to prevent osteoporosis than preventive measures in your fifties.
Other functions of calcium.
Besides promoting healthy tooth enamel, calcium helps muscles. Muscles can cramp, and heart muscles can even fail, if these muscles are not supplied with just the right amount of calcium.
Nerve impulses, the transmission of information between nerve fibers, will not function properly without just the right amount of calcium.
For example, muscles twitch (tetany) when the calcium supply to neuromuscular cells is insufficient. Calcium is one of the most vital minerals for optimal functioning of your entire body, tissues as well as bones, so in concluding this series, we can say that green leafy vegetables, fruit, and lowfat dairy with calcium can help protect you from a number of the diseases on our list.
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