to supplement, or not to?

This is for the ladies -- especially of a certain age. When we get to that age, there is apparently the problem of thyroid disorder, and it is pretty serious, broken bones, kidney stones -- there's a rhyme to this. Now they say that it is connected to a deficiency in Calcium. The good old Calcium -- the proverbial case of water, water everywhere -- not a drop to drink! I mean, they ask you to take supplements because it is hard to get everything from one's food. Then they say supplements are no good, because our body can't process it. And milk is a great source of Calcium. So we drink lots of milk -- and then we hear milk is for calves, not for humans. Human body cannot process milk. So what does a body do? oh, and you need Vitamin D to help process good old Cal, and again the same deal with Vitamin D -- to supplement or not to? that is the question.

Anyway this is what Iam doing for now.

I take a multivitamin 5 days a week. There is some Cal in it. With my oatmeal I use a cup of fat free milk, and I add a few almonds and raisins and craisins. All those are said to have Cal. And I eat fish, especially sardines now and then, and I have lots of veggies in my sambar. Hope this will help with  my Cal needs, and thereby, my thyroid. And I will live happily everafter.

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