New research published this week in the journal Heart has confirmed the findings of two controversial studies on calcium supplementation and heart attack risk published in the British Medical Journal last year, and which found a 24-27% increased risk of heart attack for those who took 500 mg of elemental calcium a day.
Over the past two decades, millions of older women have been pressured into thinking that if their bones are not as dense as a 30-year old that they have a 'medical condition' treatable with megadose calcium supplements and bone-targeting drugs. And yet, research indicates that this new definition of 'normal,' which has disingenously redefined the natural thinning of the bones that comes with age as a disease, is actually a risk factor for breast cancer, and worsened...
The present-day definitions of Osteoporosis and Osteopenia were arbitrarily conceived by the WHO in the early 90's and then projected upon millions of women's bodies seemingly in order to convince them they had a drug-treatable, though symptomless, disease.
