Much more often than about any "representative" of Mendeleyev's table, we hear about calcium and the threat of its deficiency. Let's start with what happens or in other words, what threatens those who have a lack of calcium.
Deficiency
With a deficiency of calcium, first of all, there are diseases of the musculoskeletal system:
- osteoporosis;
- osteochondrosis;
- brittle bones and hair.
Cardiovascular diseases, metabolic and menstrual disorders are also manifested, kidney stones accumulate, hair fall out and turn gray. To this meager list it is possible to rank another 100-200 diseases, but this is not our present task. Why do these diseases occur, what is the relationship between graying and calcium?
With a lack of calcium, the body (our wise man!) Sends its calcium reserves to the most important place - blood, and such things as muscles, bones, including hair, are not vitally important for the body. The catch is in the distribution of calcium in the body - 1% in the blood and 99% in the bone tissue. In order to have a deficiency of calcium in the blood, you need to bring yourself to the limit of exhaustion and completely stop eating foods that contain calcium.
How to replenish the balance of calcium?
The TV constantly stimulates us to replenish the reserves of calcium with food additives, they say, the products do not contain it in sufficient quantities. Since the fact of buying calcium tablets is beneficial to advertisers (in their self-interest to convince no one is necessary), we laugh to please you, you need calcium and you can get it from food.
The main advantage of the source of this trace element is not where the calcium is most contained (there may be one tablet and more than 100 grams of almonds), but that it is absorbed from food better and more harmless to the kidneys. That's why we'll dwell in more detail on where there is a lot of calcium.
Milk products are not the best choice?
Calcium is spent not only on our physiological needs, but also is eliminated from the body due to consumption of not the most useful products. Excess protein and consumption of a large amount of refined sugar leads to the elution of calcium. Given that calcium and a large dose of protein are antagonists in some ways, we recommend that you do not take the main role of calcium source to dairy products, although this does not mean that they are useless.
Calcium from plant foods
So, about what contains calcium, which is not only useful, but also easily absorbed and quickly rid of the deficit. Strangely enough, it's sesame, almonds , pistachios, poppies. Really amazing, but if you look at the numbers, you immediately run after the poppy:
- in 100 g of poppy - 1667 mg of calcium;
- in 100 g of cow's milk - 120 mg of calcium.
A great source of calcium will be all legumes - beans, mung beans, chickpeas, lentils, peas, etc.
It is also possible to find calcium in cereals, although it is already smaller in them:
- oats;
- wheat;
- bran;
- barley.
Calcium is also found in herbs, and although there is not much of it, there is something in herbs that enhances its absorption - vitamins. You should accustom yourself to the "Georgian" habit of eating any food with greens:
- cilantro;
- basil;
- parsley;
- tarball;
- dill.
In addition to the above products, a lot of calcium in hard and melted cheeses, Adyghe cheese, goat and sheep cheese.
You may also be interested in what kind of fruit contains calcium. Fruits are not famous for the content of calcium, but on the foremost positions we can mention plums and cherries.
Here is a non-standard story about calcium. Cross the boundaries of the conventional, do not sell cheaply to advertisers, trust your own stomach and eat something that is really useful and tasty.