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The Importance of General Nutrition in Young Women With a Focus on Calcium: A Series

Episode 1: Hypertension

When I learned about the positive effect calcium can have on high blood pressure, I immediately had a conversation with my wife. “If you make sure you get all the calcium you need each day, it could lower your blood pressure”. The response was, “If I take the calcium you’ll stop bothering me about it, and THAT will lower my blood pressure!” Isn’t love grand? Well, whatever the cause, it worked! After just a few weeks on daily calcium (Cal-EZ in the 16 oz morning coffee I make, nursed over several hours) and a smart decision or two about diet, my wife’s blood pressure came down.

This is what convinced me:

Everyone knows that milk is good for your bones. But what about broccoli? Is it rich in calcium? Should you eat it for bone health? Download this printable list of calcium-rich foods and next time you're at the store, you won't need to wonder if you can get your calcium from something other than milk.

Vitamin D has been in the news a lot lately. Turn on a TV or radio to any health-related program or read any health and fitness related news or blog on the internet and all you hear is vitamin D, vitamin D, vitamin D! So guess what, the blog today is all about, you guessed it, VITAMIN D!

What exactly is vitamin D and why do we care?

There’s been a lot of information about calcium and kidney stones on the internet. Don’t take calcium supplements. Take more calcium. Yes, no. Maybe, maybe not. It can be so confusing! And any one that has had a kidney stone knows that you don’t want another one. I know. I’ve suffered from a couple. And after having 2 children without an epidural, I can say that those kidney stones were worse than any childbirth I experienced. (Sorry ladies, I know you want your husbands to think that childbirth is worse than kidney stones, but really, for me, it wasn't!)

Swallowing is not as simple as we think it is. It is a complex process involving coordination between muscles and nerves in the throat and esophagus. When this process does not happen as it should, problems with swallowing result. Medically this is known as dysphagia (pronounced \dis-ˈfā-j(ē-)ə\.

Dental health and calcium are not often, if at all, discussed together. In our newest tip sheet, learn how calcium affects dental health and what you can do to keep your pearly whites healthy.

We’ve been talking a lot about bone health and osteoporosis on the Cal-EZ blog lately. Here on earth, we have certain things we need to do to keep our bones healthy. But what happens when your childhood dream of becoming an astronaut comes true and you find yourself on a mission in outer space or being able to live on the International Space Station or end up like Sandra Bullock in Gravity?

According to this article, Dr John Kelly at the University of Pennsylvania, considers osteoporosis a pediatric disease. How can that be? Everyone knows that osteoporosis affects the little old ladies after they’ve gone through “the change” or the little old men at the nursing home. So why would it be considered a pediatric disease?

Sometimes, you just need a summary of some of the essential things you need to know about what you're going through. Am I the only one going through menopause? What happens to my bones when I go through menopause? Are there ways to keep my bones healthy during menopause? Do I need calcium during or after menopause? How much do I need? We've combined the things you want to know about menopause, bone health, and calcium in one area.

Here at Cal-EZ, we talk a lot about bone health and diseases of calcium deficiency like osteoporosis, hypoparathyroidism, and gastroparesis. And even though I'm so immersed in this world of calcium, I find some facts very startling. Like this tweet from the National Osteoporosis Society in the UK.