As we know, calcium is a mineral in the body that keeps bones and teeth strong. Ninety-nine percent of the body's calcium is found in the bones. The other one percent is found in the bloodstream, small tissues and organs. Without this small percent, nerves could not carry messages, blood could not clot properly, and muscles could not contract correctly. Lack of calcium has been linked to more than two hundred degenerative diseases and conditions, and according to the National Institute of Health, most Americans are not getting enough calcium in their daily diets. This lack can lead to negative long and short term effects on the body. .
Calcium deficiency is an effect of not meeting the recommended daily value for calcium intake. Nutritionalists recommend that children should consume approximately eight hundred milligrams of calcium each day. Preteens, adolescents, and pregnant women should consume twelve hundred to fifteen hundred milligrams. As an adult, calcium intake drops to about one thousand milligrams per day but once an adult ages past sixty-five, it goes back up to fifteen hundred to keep bone mass loss to a minimum. .
Bone growth occurs from birth to early adulthood. The most important time to develop strong bones for a healthy future is when a person is young. Once he or she reaches adulthood and bones have grown their full length, the calcium maintained can only be lost rather than added. If enough calcium is not present in the body's bloodstream it adjusts by using cells, called osteocytes, to take calcium from the bones. It then delivers the needed nutrient to organs and tissues so they can utilize it. The further bones break down, the weaker they become. This process can eventually lead to a long term, crippling disease called osteoporosis. In osteoporosis, Durange 2.
bone mass loss outnumbers bone mass replaceability, affecting the entire skeleton.
