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