Calcium and Vitamin D Do Not Reduce Fracture Risk
Calcium and vitamin D supplements given to elderly, community-dwelling women at high risk of fracture does not appear to reduce their risk, according to the results published study.
Though commonly prescribed to prevent the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis, which often develops in middle and old age, this report showed the supplements to be of little benefit. Researchers who conducted a similar study, published in The Lancet, came to the same conclusion.
Principal investigator Dr. David J. Torgerson, at the University of York and colleagues in the UK enrolled 3314 women age 70 or older with at least one risk factor for hip fracture.
A total 1321 were randomly assigned to receive 1000 mg calcium plus 800 IU vitamin D daily and were given an information leaflet, and 1993 were given the leaflet only.
During an average follow-up period of 25 months, there were 149 fractures total, with no significant difference between the two groups. The findings were similar when hip and wrist fractures were considered separately.
There was also no difference between the two groups in number of falls or in the quality of life.
-British Medical Journal
Dr. Keith & Laurie Nemec comments on: Calcium and Vitamin D
This study once again shows the truth that you cannot get healthy taking pills from a bottle. Remember, vitamins and minerals are either synthetic, made in a laboratory so in essence are minor drugs, or they are inorganic, meaning they are from the earth and are not absorbed into the system. If you eat dirt, you will not absorb the calcium in it. If you eat broccoli that has absorbed the dirt’s (inorganic) calcium through its roots and turns it into organic calcium, then you will absorb the useable calcium into your system. Also, remember that calcium loss is greatest in an animal product consumer and least in a plant product consumer. When you eat animal products, they are very acidic. Your blood is alkaline, so to buffer the acidity, the body pulls calcium from the bones to maintain an alkaline pH of the blood. This does not happen with a plant based diet. Plants are alkaline so when you eat them there is no calcium loss but a calcium gain.
Compare the average bone loss in meat eating women at age 65 as 35% whereas plant food only consuming females at 65 is only 18%.
Your calcium should not be in the form of a supplement or pill or in the form of dairy products (acidic and filled with toxins and hormones that are in the milk at which cause prostate cancer, breast cancer and Type I diabetes in children) but in the form of green vegetables, seeds and nuts.