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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/got-too-much-milk/">Got Too Much Milk?</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted May 4, 2008 at 06:00 PM by Caroline Shannon</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Milk. It does a body good . . . right? Well, according to a recently released study, new research suggests there has been a bit too much boasting of calcium and its ability to increase bone health and prevent fractures. It turns out that, despite the portrayal of calcium as one of the key players in thwarting osteoporosis and related bone fractures, researchers have found the benefits of the mineral are not as clearly defined as once presumed. Rewind the clock and one will uncover that in 2005 two British studies showed that calcium, even when combined with vitamin D, did not prevent fractures. The following year, according to an April 2008 article by Harvard Publications, another trial of calcium – this time for the Women’s Health…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/got-too-much-milk/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/got-too-much-milk/">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/got-too-much-milk/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/got-too-much-milk/">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/diet-myths/">diet-myths</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/healthy-eating/">healthy-eating</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/supplements/">supplements</a><br /><br /> </P>