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Vegetarian Nutrition for Healthy Families
A wide array of vegetarian nutritional information, to give consumers relevant information about vegan nutrition and general health. Site offers a section on nutritional fads, including raw foods and other hype. Sections include advantages of vegetarianism, food and nutrition guide, low cholesterol diets, vitamin B12 facts, chronic diseases, childhood obesity, blood sugar management, plant diets, cancer control, dairy tolerance, exercise, changing your cooking oil, prebiotics, weight loss, soy nutrition, nutritional supplements, and more.

Calcium Supplements May Reduce Colon Cancer Risk for Men
This article, published in 2002, discusses a study about the search for a link between diet and risk for colon cancer. On recent years, the article says that it has focused on specific nutrients, such as calcium, can play in colon health. Another study praising calcium and calcium supplements in fighting colon cancer was published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The study was done at Harvard and included pooling diet, nutritional and lifestyle data from more than 100,000 men and women participating in two large studies in the United States. You can read on for more about how exactly calcium and calcium supplements can help to prevent colon cancer here.

Defeating Osteoporosis: Is Calcium the Only Fix?
Osteoporosis is a condition that involves hormonal, nutritional and lifestyle factors. All too often, though, it is advised to take extra calcium, or undergo hormone replacement therapy. The site says, Nutrients that need to be in sufficient supply include among others calcium, magnesium, boron, vitamins C, D, B6, Folic Acid, B12, K, and hydrochloric acid (stomach acid). This site includes a section about stomach acid, excess protein, toxic materials, and other things that prevent the body from absorbing calcium properly.

Calcium Supplements: Can they Protect Against Colon Cancer?
This is a 1999 article published in the New England Journal of Medicine that talks about calcium supplements moderately reducing the risk of recurring polyp growth. It also says that calcium supplements seem to reduce the risk of colon cancer. To read more about this study, conducted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, read on. You may decide to continue or start a regimen of eating a calcium-rich diet, in addition to taking calcium supplements.