Saturday, October 1, 2011

Everyone needs Calcium


I wanted to share something about Calcium long while ago but at least I remember today. This will be a very good topic for all group of age. Our bones, particularly the most important part that structure our body, have a peak period for bone building start from age 18 until 25 years old. However, after 30 years old, we tend to lose calcium from bone especially for women. Osteoporosis (fracture of hips, spine and wrist due to porous bone) seems to be a problem for female and male too if we tend to consume low calcium intake in our daily food. Thus, the concern about calcium nutrition is rising and please don't take only old people who need to worry about Osteoporosis but is all age group especially young people.


Our bones mainly are build up from calcium. Our blood, contains certain level of calcium for balance maintenance. Once our blood is lack of calcium, it tends to release hormone for withdraw calcium from bone for balance. Thus, this operation definitely will lead to continuous of calcium being draw rather than build up. Therefore, our bone tends to be porous and fracture as low density of calcium. 

We can notice that most of the milk products focus on calcium nutrition too besides fat contents. It is absolutely a must, milk is the best product that provide adequate calcium for our daily need. Other dairy products such as yogurt, cheese and fortified soy milk or cereal products are also able to provide the calcium that we need to maintain bone health. So, folks, do pick up more calcium products starting from now on while I will post more details in the coming post. 

18岁到25岁是骨骼建设的高峰期。然而,大多数人们在30岁之后,会很容易从骨骼中失去钙特别是妇女。骨质疏松症(脆弱的骨骼容易发生骨折,特别是臀部,脊椎和手腕)发生在女性和男性在日常食物中摄入非常低,发生骨折风险特别高。因此,对于钙质营养的关注似乎并不只有老人们需要担心,但实际上是所有年龄组,特别是年轻人。

我们的骨头实际上是由钙建立主要骨骼结构。我们的血液中也含有一定水平的钙以维持平衡。一旦我们的血缺乏钙,就会释放激素把钙从骨骨骼中流失以平衡血液中的钙。因此,如果长期缺乏钙,肯定会导致钙持续流失,而不是吸收在骨骼里。因此,若骨骼往往是多孔,低密度的构造是很容易发生骨折而患上骨骼疏松症


我们可以看到,现今大部分的牛奶和奶制品将重点放在脂肪含量和钙质营养。牛奶仍然是最好高钙来源,是建议每天食用的。其他奶制品,如酸奶,奶酪和附加钙质豆奶或谷物产品也可以提供我们需要的钙质以维持骨骼健康

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