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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/dieting-pamper-your-bones-with-calcium/">Dieters - Protect Your Bones with Calcium</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted April 21, 2008 at 03:00 PM by Kathleen Blanchard</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Past studies have associated dieting with bone loss.&nbsp; The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reports that you can protect yourself by consuming 1 or 1.8g/day (1000-1800mg) of calcium during periods of moderate weight loss. “Compared with obese persons, overweight persons may be more susceptible to bone loss due to reduced weight bearing, diminished extraovarial estrogen synthesis due to smaller fat depots, and reduced calcium intake due to lower energy requirements, especially during dieting, says Claudia S. Riedt, from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Women who enrolled in the diet study were observed for six months.&nbsp; Their ages ranged from 32 to 44.&nbsp; The group lost 7.2% ± 3.3% of their starting weight. Bone mineral density and bone content were measured before and after weight loss.&nbsp; In addition, tests were performed to measure amounts of fractional…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/dieting-pamper-your-bones-with-calcium/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/dieting-pamper-your-bones-with-calcium/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/dieting-pamper-your-bones-with-calcium/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/dieting-pamper-your-bones-with-calcium/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-nutrition/">her-nutrition</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/healthy-eating/">healthy-eating</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/weight-control/">weight-control</a><br /><br /> </P>