Getting enough calcium for bone health is essential, but getting more than that doesn’t appear to confer any additional benefit, Swedish researchers have found. With age, bones start to lose calcium, their major building block. This puts older people, especially women, at risk for fractures and osteoporosis, a disease in which the bones become fragile and break easily. To help prevent these devastating injuries, women with a low intake of calcium should increase their intake to avoid fractures caused by osteoporosis, “while women with a satisfactory intake should not,” said lead researcher Eva Warensjo, a researcher in the department of surgical sciences section of orthopedics at Uppsala University.
