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'Healthy' eating is harming women

Women across the Midlands are damaging their bones by adopting seemingly healthy regimes, which often omit calcium-rich dairy products, a new study revealed today.

One in five women admitted they ate less cheese, drank less milk and used less cream in their diets than they did in 1986, and two-thirds claimed they felt much healthier as a result.

Calcium is vital for bones development but only 20 per cent of women quizzed by the National Osteoporosis Society (NOS) could name alternatives rich in the mineral - such as baked beans, tofu, leafy green vegetables, boney fish and dried fruit.

….Weight-bearing exercise and eating a balanced, calcium-rich diet are both ways people can improve their bone density and reduce the risk of having brittle bones in later life.

The link is to a U.K newspaper, but it caught my attention because I know quite a few people that sacrifice dairy products to supposedly avoid the fat in order to keep off some wieght, but they do so at the expense of the calcium, vitamin D, and potassium. As the article notes their are other sources of calcium and there are low fat diary products.

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