We love to eat instant oatmeal in the morning. It’s fast, easy, pretty healthy and most importantly, the kids enjoy it and will actually eat it on a regular basis. As a mom, I’m of course concerned about my kids health, and am wondering if they are getting enough calcium to grow healthy bones.
Since my […]

According to a new study by researchers from the University of Sheffield, taking a daily calcium supplement helps increase the bone density and the amount of minerals found in the bones of teenage girls. Since about 35% of an adult’s bone mass is produced during the teenage years, getting enough calcium at this stage of […]

One of the main reasons we are all paying a lot more attention to how much calcium we get through our diet and supplements is because we want to keep our bones strong and avoid osteoporosis. Studies in women diagnosed with this bone disease now show that some moderate or light weight lifting improves bone […]

We’ve been talking about calcium and calcium supplements for quite some time now and I thought it might be interesting to take a look at who discovered calcium in the first place. It turns out that this element was first isolated by Sir Humphry Davy in 1808 in England. He isolated it by electrolyzing a […]