My aunt fell off her bed and fractured ___1___
thighbone. A friend's mother tripped and shattered her hip. ___2___
of them never fully recovered. My grandmother who is in her
eighties and not ___3___
steady on her feet fell three times in the house last year. She
carried bruises
___4___ for a while but
didn't break any bones. She has been drinking copious amounts of
milk and eating cheese ___5___
she was a child. Calcium is needed to build strong bones ___6___
as my grandmother's. The natural way to get calcium is from
daily foods. Studies have indicated that people ___7___
the age of thirty should get as ___8___
as 1200 milligram of calcium a day; the equivalent of four
glasses of milk. Most doctors feel that ___9___
don't need calcium supplements because we should be able to
absorb enough from our daily diets. They, ___10___,
do not take into account the fact that few Asians have any
liking for dairy products. |