Calcium supplements have ‘little benefit’ for kids

Calcium supplements have ‘little benefit’ for kids:

"19/04/2006 - A review of 19 studies has concluded that kids do not benefit from calcium supplements and fortified foods, despite many not meeting recommended daily intakes of the mineral.

There has been considerable debate about childhood calcium intake and the onset of osteoporosis in adulthood, a disease that affects over 75 million people in Europe, the USA and Japan. “The review shows that supplementing the diet with calcium in healthy children has little benefit for bone health,” said lead author Tania Winzenberg from the Menzies Research Institute, Australia.

Published in the current issue of The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Issue 2, 2006), the researchers pooled 19 intervention studies investigating the effects of extra calcium for boys and girls aged three to 18."