Calcium from food is best for women who want to keep their bones strong

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Just under the wire for National Dairy Month, this we hear about more reasons to like dairy products.

A new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that women are better off eating plenty of calcium-rich food than relying on supplements for their intake of the mineral.

Postmenopausal women who got their calcium mainly from diet or from diet and supplements had a greater average bone mineral density (BMD) than women who got most of their calcium from supplements, principal investigator Dr. Reina C. Armamento-Villareal of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and her colleagues found.

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