WOMEN TAKING CALCIUM SUPPLEMENTS RISK HEART HEALTH

You just can't win for losing.  How many times in the last few years have we been led down the garden path by those supposedly in the know?  First it's good for you then it's not.  Maybe doing nothing will be better in the long run than sitting on a seesaw.  I'm beginning to think that one should not put any faith in anything coming out of the medical community anymore......and this from a former medical community worker!!!

"Our own recommendation is to critically review the use of calcium supplements, since the data in this paper suggests that they do more harm than good," added Reid, who is professor of medicine and endocrinology at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.
"The cautious way forward seems to be to encourage people to obtain their calcium from the diet, rather than from supplements, since food calcium has not been shown to carry this increased risk of heart disease," Reid added.
A recent meta-analysis done by the same group of researchers found a 27 to 31 percent increased risk of heart attacks in women taking calcium without vitamin D.
Many older women take calcium supplements with or without vitamin D to keep their bones strong, especially since that has long been standard medical advice. In addition, the mammoth, U.S.-government funded Women's Health Initiative (WHI) earlier found no negative link between calcium and heart health.