Sentences with phrase «relied on calcium»

For years, osteoporosis prevention relied on calcium alone.

But then I did some digging and learned that universal pectin relies on calcium for thickening (in a slightly acidic environment), which is much different than most varieties of pectin (which rely on large quantities of sugar).

«All we know at the moment is that it relies on calcium, because when we took calcium out of the growth medium, cell death did not occur,» he says.

That's bad news for shelled animals such as clams, which rely on calcium carbonate for their shells.

Your bones and teeth also rely on calcium, since calcium makes up a part of the mineralized tissue that keeps your bones strong and hard.

Not exact matches

Phytic acid is a strong chelator of important minerals such as calcium, magnesium, iron, and zinc, and can therefore contribute to mineral deficiencies in people whose diets rely on these foods for their mineral intake, such as those in developing countries.

The problem is, I used to rely on things like Greek yogurt, cottage cheese and cheese to get my protein and calcium.

I tend to rely on non-dairy food sources like fortified almond milk, dark leafy greens, tofu, beans and nuts for most of my calcium.

Even the most prepared of moms can fall short, relying on intuition and their dietary choices alone, leaving babies born with nutritional deficiencies, birth defects, and robbing mom's body of her stores of calcium, iron, and more.

If you want strong bones for you and your baby, then you should rely on cow's milk for its high Calcium content.

The products still rely on relatively traditional health aids like calcium and dietary fiber.

Red rock shrimp, which rely on camouflage as they remove parasites from moray eels, doubled the amount of calcium in the cuticle that makes up its exoskeleton when the pH level was reduced, meaning the seawater was more acidic.

And that poses a problem for all of the animals that rely on seawater's calcium carbonate to make shells or skeletons.

I tend to rely on non-dairy food sources like fortified almond milk, dark leafy greens, tofu, beans and nuts for most of my calcium.

So rather than rely on milk for calcium, vegetarians turn to dark green leafy vegetables, such as broccoli and legumes, which, calorie for calorie, are superior sources»

I have relied, for some years now, on calcium citrate, magnesium, manganese, tri-boron, supplemental vitamin D, and separately, strontium citrate, all to help avoid the osteoporosis that crippled my mother and grandmother, and great grandmother.

Calcium, zinc, magnesium, iron, and several others are susceptible to the lure of phytic acid, and research shows that cultures who rely on grains for the bulk of their macronutrients and micronutrients display deficiencies in these and other minerals.

Your body needs calcium to keep your bones and teeth strong, and also relies on the mineral for nerve and muscle function.

If you've been relying on dairy then you've not been getting enough calcium.

It has a lot of zinc, calcium and other minerals and its manganese and vitamin B2 levels are through the roof, these are two nutrients people often don't get enough of and even rely on fortified foods to get their riboflavin, but using this as a sweetener (I love it for hot cacao) can take care of falling short.

In fact, calcium relies on magnesium (and Vitamin D) to help build bone and prevent unnecessary breakdown of bone, particularly as we get older.

Calcium is responsible for strong bones, and puppies rely on it to grow.

Most of the treatments given to dogs and cats with this problem rely on how calcium oxalate behaves in a test tube when various things are done to it.

Royal Canin's diets are formulated on the premise that, although control of urinary pH is effective in dissolving struvite crystals, it can't be relied on to manage both struvite and calcium oxalate.