CALCIUM

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Health Benefits of Calcium

  COCOS CIDER VINEGAR=24mg/ kg

Rationale

• Prevents Over Weight: Calcium helps to maintain an optimum body weight and if there is any deficit in calcium in your diet, the body releases parathyroid hormone, which in turn stimulates the bones to release calcium into your blood stream and helps to keep the balance. On the other side, parathyroid hormone also stimulates the production of fat and prevents its break down, which makes you obese. So ensuring the right amount of calcium is the simplest means to ensure the right body weight.

• It Protects Heart: Calcium protects your heart. Sufficient amounts of calcium help muscles, including cardiac muscle to do the contraction and relaxation properly. Calcium also helps the nervous system to maintain pressure in your arteries. If there is a calcium drop, a hormone called calcitrol is released which contracts the smooth muscles of the arteries, thereby increasing the blood pressure.

• Prevents Premenstrual Blues: Adequate amount of calcium would lessen the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome as a low level of calcium might trigger the release of hormones, which are responsible premenstrual mood swings including irritability, and depression among others.

• Prevents the Risks of Colon Cancer: Studies have shown that sufficient intake of calcium would drastically reduce the risks of colon cancer. It is believed that when there is surplus calcium in your body, the unabsorbed calcium which on passing through the colon gets attached to the cancer prompters and is expelled out of the body.

• Protects Against Colon Cancer: Adequate calcium intake may reduce your overall risk of colon cancer and suppress the growth of polyps that can lead to cancer. Researchers don't know exactly why this happens, but it may be linked to the excess calcium that's left in your intestines after your body absorbs what it needs. On its way through the colon, this unabsorbed calcium is believed to bind with cancer promoters so they're excreted together from the body. Studies have shown that both food sources of calcium and calcium supplements provide this protective effect. Calcium supplements should be taken in liquid form because liquid vitamins absorb 5 times better then do pill forms.

• Maintains Healthy Teeth: Calcium protects your teeth by keeping the jaw bone strong and sturdy all through your life, which in turn ensures tight fitting teeth where bacteria cannot thrive.

• Helps in the Transportation of Nutrients: Calcium helps in the easy movement of nutrients across the cell membranes.

• Protects Backbone: It strengthens backbone and ensures the right shape to the body apart from alleviating the risks of back pain.

• Prevents Osteoporosis: Calcium helps to keep the bones in great shape and prevents many skeletal complaints like arthritis and osteoporosis which could hamper the free movement apart from being extremely painful.

• Ensures a Healthy Alkaline pH Level: Junk foods, excess sugars and preserved food items would increase the acidity of the body, which in turn could give rise to various disease conditions like cancer, kidney stones and hypertension. Calcium helps to maintain a healthy pH levels, thereby improving your vitality and overall goodness.

Deficiency symptoms

The major symptoms of calcium deficiency which are primarily caused by calcium depletion are skeletal abnormalities such as:

• osteopenia
• osteomalacia
• osteoporosis 
• rickets

In children suffering from rickets the bones become weak and flexible and they often have bowed legs, sunken chests and beaded ribs. Some of the other common symptoms include insomnia, premenstrual cramps, tetany, hypertension and arthritis

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