Categories: HEALTH TIPS

What Does Calcium Do for Your Body?

Protects cardiac muscles

About 610,000 people die of heart disease in the United States every year – that’s 1 in every 4 deaths. So, you may want to find out that calcium protects your heart muscles consumed in sufficient amounts. It also helps the nervous system maintain a good pressure in your arteries.

 

Prevents kidney stones

The irony is that kidney stones are crystallized deposits of calcium and other minerals in the human urinary tract. In first place it was thought that a high absorption of the minerals develops kidney stones, but latest studies show that “a high dietary calcium intake decreases the risk of kidney stones”.

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