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JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (AMA) When the participants consumption reached 1500 milligrams of calcium a day, cell growth in the colon improved toward normal. Consuming sufficient calcium during pregnancy can reduce the risk of pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) and pre- eclampsia, a potentially fatal disorder of high blood pressure and kidney failure...increasing calcium intake reduced the risk of high blood pressure by 70 percent in pregnant women. NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE People who have had colorectal polyps -- benign tumors that can develop into cancer -- have less risk of developing recurrent polyps if they take calcium supplements each day, according to a report in the January 14th issue of The New England Journal of Medicine......Approximately 9 months after treatment started and again approximately 36 months later, the investigators performed colonoscopy ...... The reduction of risk became apparent even earlier, the study group found. Between the beginning of treatment and the first colonoscopy, the risk of developing at least one adenoma was 25% lower in the calcium group than in the placebo group. The average number of polyps was 30% lower. Osteoporotic hip fractures are largely preventable with the intake of recommended levels of calcium and vitamin D".... "nearly 300,000 American women and men suffer hip fractures..... in 1995, 290,327 patients age 50 or older were discharged from U.S. hospitals with a primary diagnosis of hip fracture, at an estimated direct cost of $5.6 billion......direct medical costs would have been avoided in 1995 if hip fracture patients age 50 or older had consumed about 1,200 mg/day of supplemental calcium for 34 months. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF NUTRITION Individuals who consume the most calcium have lower body fat.....They recommend that young women who want to lose weight consume about 1,950 calories a day, 5,000 international units (IU) of vitamin A, and 1,000 mg of calcium. |