Diabetics on high-fibre diets might need extra calcium
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 11:57
in Health & Medicine
The amount of calcium your body absorbs might depend, in part, on the amount of dietary fibre you consume. Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Centre report that patients with noninsulin-dependent diabetes (type 2) excreted less calcium through their urine when they consumed 50 grams of fibre a day than when they ate 24 grams a day. Excreting less calcium indicates that they absorbed less of the mineral...