At 10:49 AM 6/11/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Someone recently postulated that perhaps the reason people need calcium
>supplementation is that calcium levels are adversely affected by the modern
>diet.  This would suggest that calcium supplementation should be largely
>unnecessary on a paleolithic diet.
        I can tell you that phophoric acid, as found in soft drinks, depelete
calcium.  But "they" also say that the phosphorus in meat also does that.
But since that was in vegetarian literature, I find it suspect.

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