High Calcium Intake No Better for Bone Health

Of course not. Two words - Anabolic Clinic (sm).

"The salient message is that if a little is good, more is not always better, so obsessively chomping calcium pills is not the way to go," Santoro said...

"The recommendation in the U.S., Canada, and France is for intake of 1,200 mg a day in total, including diet," said Michelle Warren, MD, of New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.

But many older adults don't drink or eat enough dairy products and may need supplements to get them to that level, she said in an email.

The issue is unclear, Warensjö and colleagues noted, as evidenced by national recommendations ranging from 700 mg a day in the U.K. to 1,300 a day in Australia and New Zealand...

A recent report from Institute of Medicine, he noted in an email, supported lower recommendations, and the Swedish study "adds to the current trend to lower calcium (and vitamin D) recommendations."

Still think they have any idea what they are talking about?