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KenK

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Apr 14, 2013, 9:48:10 AM4/14/13
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Do calcium supplements help? You often hear of old people breaking a
shoulder, hip, knee, or whatever.

Perhaps calcium supplements will help prevent this? Say 1200 mg. with added
D daily?

Opinions? A little? A lot? No help?

TIA

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ctowers

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Apr 14, 2013, 11:11:21 AM4/14/13
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On Sun Apr 14, 2013 9:48 AM, KenK wrote:
> Do calcium supplements help? You often hear of old people breaking a
> shoulder, hip, knee, or whatever.
>
> Perhaps calcium supplements will help prevent this? Say 1200 mg. with added
> D daily?
>
> Opinions? A little? A lot? No help?
>
> TIA
>

You ask the same questions I ask the doctor.
Doctor Charlatan, is that you?

brian

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Apr 14, 2013, 1:24:37 PM4/14/13
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Recent Times article indicated they may do more harm than good unless
you have a real good reason to take them.

NorthernStar

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Apr 14, 2013, 5:29:31 PM4/14/13
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My Dr put me on them recently for a low bone density test. We will see....

bo peep

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Apr 15, 2013, 3:33:57 PM4/15/13
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I prefer to self-prescribe ice cream as a calcium supplement. The brand I have on hand right now indicates that 1/2 cup contains 6% of the daily calcium required.

Lois

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May 9, 2013, 7:16:19 PM5/9/13
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I was taking calcium, vitamins c, d, and e and my doctor took me off of all
of them. She said I could take a multi-vitamin like Centrum if I wanted but
she didn't think even that was necessary. That was several years ago and I
haven't had any new problems since then.

Lois

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indoa...@gmail.com

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May 20, 2013, 7:37:49 AM5/20/13
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The first thing I would do would be to avoid falling down at any cost. Fortunately, I have just moved into a single-storey house where there are no stairs inside. I have also been contemplating the purchase of a dashing walking stick for walking outdoors. A dashing walking stick, incidentally, is one that doesn't make me look like a feeble old man.

Indoarsman

Jim_Higgins

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May 20, 2013, 7:40:31 AM5/20/13
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On 5/20/13 7:37 AM, indoa...@gmail.com wrote:
> The first thing I would do would be to avoid falling down at any cost. Fortunately, I have just moved into a single-storey house where there are no stairs inside. I have also been contemplating the purchase of a dashing walking stick for walking outdoors. A dashing walking stick, incidentally, is one that doesn't make me look like a feeble old man.
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> Indoarsman
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How about a shillelagh? Does double duty as a club :-)

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indoa...@gmail.com

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May 20, 2013, 6:54:55 PM5/20/13
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On Monday, May 20, 2013 7:40:31 AM UTC-4, Jim_Higgins wrote:

> How about a shillelagh? Does double duty as a club :-)

Congratulations on knowing how to spell shillelagh. I was about to write the word once and realized I hadn't the faintest idea how to spell it. For years I went for walks using a wicked-looking piece of driftwood as a walking stick. Very intimidating, I'm sure. But I was bothered by the fact that it didn't look at all dashing.

A friend's father worked for the Associated Press in Buenos Aires. For some reason the office only had one walking stick, so the (dashing looking) reporters took turns using it when they went out.

Indoarsman
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