Calcium builds and maintains your bone strength, helps muscles -- including your heart muscle -- contract properly and plays an essential role in normal blood clotting. Eating calcium-rich foods every ...

The Best Golden Years of Your Life There’s no bones about it: as we age, we experience common osteoporosis symptoms. We can ...

Though the world has been pretty obsessed with milk in recent decades, the ads companies weren’t wrong about the need for sufficient calcium in our diets. (Just debatably about it having to come from ...

You can get calcium from both plant and animal sources. These can include dairy products, sardines, seeds, and leafy greens, among others. Calcium makes up much of your bones and teeth and plays a ...

Jillian Kubala, MS, is a registered dietitian based in Westhampton, NY. Jillian uses a unique and personalized approach to help her clients achieve optimal wellness through nutrition and lifestyle ...

Parents and their offspring sometimes seem as if they have little in common. But both often fall short on a key nutrient: calcium. This mineral is best known for building strong bones, but it does ...

Milk has calcium and your bones need calcium, so milk gives you strong bones. Right? Thanks to a very good marketing campaign, this is the common wisdom. But it turns out milk, calcium, and strong ...

Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...

After the age of, say, 5, chugging a glass of milk isn’t necessarily the most appetizing way to get a healthy dose of calcium. That said, the mineral is hugely important way past your pre-school days.

As kids, we would often listen to our mothers advising us to have a glass of milk every day for strong bones. But is that all that you need to keep your calcium levels up? Calcium levels not only ...

You might remember the milk mustaches from the Got Milk? ads of the ‘90s. That’s because dairy has long been the poster child for calcium, a mineral most famous for keeping our bones strong. But ...