Protein and Calcium

Calcium is still number one in the prevention of not only bone loss but also potential building of bone.  However, studies showed that people that ate diets high in animal protein were more at risk for fractures than those that had more than 800 mg of calcium a day. Hence the reverse is true when you put protein and calcium  together it will benefit the bones only if the calcium did not go below 800 mg. Without 800mg or more of calcium daily the potential for hip fractures were greater and this was studied over an approximately 30 yr time frame. Over that course of time the study participants that followed a high protein diet and took calcium over 800mg a day were over 80% less likely to have hip fractures risk.

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