The safest and most effective way to supplement calcium is to strengthen the calcium intake in the daily diet, and food calcium is safer than drug calcium, will not cause excessive blood calcium.
Expert advice: the elderly adhere to drink two glasses of milk a day, eat more dairy products, shrimp, soybeans, green beans, tofu, sesame paste and other calcium-rich foods. Secondly, choose a healthy lifestyle, drink less coffee and cola, do not smoke, these will cause bone loss. Apart from that, sun exposure and outdoor exercise are also good for calcium absorption and utilization. These are safe ways of calcium supplementation and there is simply no need for the elderly to take calcium supplements every day.
Related experts pointed out that now there are many middle-aged and elderly people, calcium supplements as anti-aging nutrients to take, the results instead of fractures, ectopic calcification and other diseases, and even some kidney stones, atherosclerosis and other diseases occur with excessive calcium supplementation. In the case of encouraging people to supplement calcium advertisements everywhere, publicize the scientific knowledge of calcium has become a doctor can not help but do the work. In recent years, under the hype of many manufacturers of calcium supplements, the market for calcium supplements has expanded tremendously, and calcium products, which used to be limited to calcium-deficient children, are now prevalent among consumers of all ages. Moreover, calcium products are basically sold in OTC pharmacies, consumers can easily take on their own without doctor's instructions. According to reports, the body of the elderly is very different from that of teenagers, and all aspects of function have deteriorated, and the metabolic level of nutrients in the body is also different, especially for bone formation has a great role in calcium, whether it can play a positive role in the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis depends entirely on the bone condition. Middle-aged and old people generally poor bone condition, some people collagen, protein deficiency is serious, calcium has been impossible to deposit to the bone, this time, if the calcium supplementation, will only make a large number of difficult to deposit calcium in the body, and deposited in the place should not be deposited, resulting in the occurrence of ectopic calcification, kidney stones and other diseases. Osteoporosis patients in the intake of large amounts of calcium if not properly absorbed, the risk of hip fracture will also rise sharply.
2, calcium more to supplement collagen
Experts pointed out that bone health refers to the health of the entire skeletal system, including bone, cartilage, joints, tendons, ligaments and so on. And purely supplemental calcium can only promote bone, and can not guarantee the flexibility of the entire skeletal system, flexibility, shock resistance, anti-tension and overall coordination. Therefore, for middle-aged and elderly people, only comprehensive supplementation of bone nutrition, so that the nutrients in the bones to get a balanced ratio, in order to make the whole body strong, flexible and elastic.
It is reported that many middle-aged and elderly people may have walking slowly, joints clicking, squatting and standing up, morning stiffness, height shortening, hunchback and other symptoms occur, these are middle-aged and elderly people in the skeletal system, signs of aging, mainly due to the lack of connective tissue nutrients in the skeletal system. Collagen is an important component of connective tissue, in the form of insoluble fibers, with a high degree of tensile strength, is to determine the bones, cartilage, tendons, ligaments, and skin keratin, blood vessels and other tissues of flexibility and elastic strength of the important components. In the bone organic matter, collagen accounts for 90%, the body absorbed calcium must be attached to collagen before a large number of deposits in the bone. At the same time, it also exists in the joints, determining the lubrication of the joints, shock resistance; exists in the cartilage, so that the cartilage to reduce friction; exists in the basal lamina, so that it has good deformity and compartmentalization.
Therefore, experts remind, middle-aged and elderly people, calcium supplement should also pay attention to supplement collagen. Only to strengthen including magnesium, manganese, zinc and other nutritional balanced tonic, in order to achieve the true meaning of bone health.