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The amount of calcium the body absorbs might depend, in part, of the amount of fiber that is consumed.
The researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center reported that patients with diabetes (type 2) excrete less calcium through your urine when they consume 50 grams of fiber a day, on the contrary when they consume only 24 grams, at a lower excretion of calcium, the greater the absorption of the same on the part of the agency.
“We already know that fiber helps improve the control of the glucose and cholesterol, in addition to improve the intestinal regularly, but our new findings suggest that the dietary fiber reduces the agency’s ability to absorb calcium,” said Dr. Abhimanyu Garg, professor of internal medicine and a researcher at the Center for Human Nutrition in the UT Southwestern. Read the rest of this entry »
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