What is YOUR opinion on Calcium?

[soontobesix]

I think it's interesting that we're all over the board. I just found an interesting research study involving calcium and the results were quite astonishing. Maybe you've all seen this one before but I hadn't.

http://www.medindia.net/news/Women-C...ls-78920-1.htm

My gut tells me that the people that have luck with high fat dairy that it has more to do with the high fat than the calcium. Part of me has been thinking about this because we feed our kiddos lots of organic food (DD2 actually reacts to the added hormones in milk, eggs, meat, etc). Most of the hormones that are given to livestock to make them produce more food is stored in their fat... so if you're eating a high meat, high fat diet then you are in turn getting way more hormones from your diet than the person that eats a low fat diet or organic diet. Hmmmm... I wonder if this plays in a role in some of the extreme cases (I'm talking about people with three or more of the same sex). I think I might start a thread to find out if anyone eats all organic and what the gender of their kiddos is.

[Zivic-Bubac]

Before swaying: Calcium intake through the roof, cheese daily, milk, yoghurt ( skimmed) so I'm VERY cautious about it.

Swaying: 2dl full fat yoghurt with my cereals but not every day
no milk
cheese only on pizza

[atomic sagebrush]

I ate TONS AND TONS of dairy with all four of my boys.

Every failed sway I have ever seen, the people were taking massive doses of cal and mag (not saying that's what caused their failed sway, but that cal-mag supps are in no way a magic pink bullet because that is one thing that's easy for everyone to do so everyone does it.

[atomic sagebrush]

I think it's interesting that we're all over the board. I just found an interesting research study involving calcium and the results were quite astonishing. Maybe you've all seen this one before but I hadn't.

http://www.medindia.net/news/Women-C...ls-78920-1.htm

My gut tells me that the people that have luck with high fat dairy that it has more to do with the high fat than the calcium. Part of me has been thinking about this because we feed our kiddos lots of organic food (DD2 actually reacts to the added hormones in milk, eggs, meat, etc). Most of the hormones that are given to livestock to make them produce more food is stored in their fat... so if you're eating a high meat, high fat diet then you are in turn getting way more hormones from your diet than the person that eats a low fat diet or organic diet. Hmmmm... I wonder if this plays in a role in some of the extreme cases (I'm talking about people with three or more of the same sex). I think I might start a thread to find out if anyone eats all organic and what the gender of their kiddos is.

Yes, we actually have the full text of that study available for anyone who wants it.

MPO is that it's the vegetarian nature of the diet (or in the case of the FGD and IGD, the restrictive natures of the diets) that are doing the swaying and the calcium is totally coincidental.

[Bumblebee]

I'm consuming calcium but I've incorporated it as part my high nutrition diet sway, if anything I'm eating more calcium now than I was before because I hardly drank any milk or ate cheese except for on pizza or milk in my tea.