Can some one suggest good calcium supplements.

New beginnings. They have it combined with magnesium.

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Calcium carbonate and calcium citrate are good forms of calcium supplements.

Can we replace milk with calcium tablets?

Hi,

A study on teenage girls showed that their bone density increased on calcium supplements alone, but this then reversed itself 2 years later. Therefore I would say that milk is substantially better and calcium tablets should remain as supplements.

I've heard that calcium tablets should be used only as a supplement, not a substitute. Nothing can replace the real thing.

The answer is a definite ‘no’. The calcium from milk and its products is far superior to that of calcium supplements or even other dietary sources.

Further, Milk and milk products like yogurt, cheese are good sources of many other nutrients as well. Therefore a diet devoid of dairy foods will often be inadequate, not just in respect to calcium but for many other nutrients as well. Calcium tablets can only be used as supplements and certainly not as a replacement for milk.

No, calcium tablets can never wholly replace milk, they should remain as supplements only.

alex - 11 August 2008 07:09 AM

Can we replace milk with calcium tablets?

We still need to drink milk to support the calcium nutrients in the bones. Taking calcium supplements is still best but do not substitute one or the other.

You can drink calcium supplement if you are lactose intolerant. Most people cannot drink milk because of this illness and rushes them to the toilet whenever they drink or eat milk products.

alex - 11 August 2008 07:09 AM

Can we replace milk with calcium tablets?

I think the over-all thought that is missing here is that calcium needs a balance with other things in order to be useful. If you only drank milk, that's also not an answer. Just like you can't only eat chard or only take raw almonds to cure all. Calcium needs magnesium, boron, D and vitamin C (and some others, it varies depending on who you are reading up on) in order to be utilized by the body. Most of your magnesium is stored IN your bones. Ironically, to get the calcium, the body bleeds the mag out of your bones (hopefully you are supplementing it so that it doesn't rob your "stores" of mag) to get the calcium in there. The issue, and I read this in the Better Nutrition mag by Dr. Nan Fuschs (I think I got her name right) said that if you look at black board chalk, that is calcium gluconate...it's brittle. You drop it, it shatters. Ivory is heavy in magnesium, if you dropped a tusk or a horn, it would bounce. Same with our bones...when they are made of mag and cal, they are more resilient, when they are robbed of the mag and deposited with calcium, they are brittle. I would think that the test on those teenagers who showed improvement and then decline would be interesting...interesting to see when their mag stores were depleted...and they started to LOSE bone density, even while still taking their calcium. Oddly enough, I race horses and the most common and cheapest hay is Alfalfa, which is high in Calcium...Seeing various breakdowns in racing horses, it has lead me on some wild research and lo'and'behold, I find the whole catagory as it applies to human bodies too. I had a horse riding friend who was started on heavy Calcium dosages, due to osteoperosis "running" in her family. She was start early, at 28 yrs old. By the time she was 35, she had such brittle bones, she coughed too hard (not kidding) and snapped a rib. She sold all her horses and only recently, came in touch with magnesium and has seen a "miraculous" increase in her bone density. Should we be surprised at our ignorance or that the solution was simple?

Tablets can never replace milk.Milk and milk products like cheese and yogurt are good sources of calcium.Nothing can be replace the real thing.