Adrienne Smith wrote:

> If paleos got their calcium primarily from the bones of fish and small
> animals, does anyone have any references for how much calcium this would
> amount to?  I just got another lecture from a friend about how I don't get
> enough calcium and that I "need" to gobble calcium/magnesium pills.  When I
> replied that Asian women don't gobble dairy products and they don't appear to
> be crumbling, he said that they lead the world in osteoporosis.  Urgh.

Although I don't have a reference, I have often seen statements that
American  women lead the world in osteoporosis, and that non-dairy-using
Asian women are relatively free of it.

    Lynnet