Hello and this week we're talking about how eating sugar may or may not affect your immune

diva podcast I'm your host Monica Reinagle and this week we're talking about

how eating sugar may or may not affect your immune system.

As you may be aware,

we are celebrating a decade of Diva this year

as the Nutrition Diva podcast approaches its 10th anniversary.

And you might think that after 10 years of weekly podcasts, I've said just about everything

that can be said about nutrition.

No danger of that. Our understanding of how food

affects our bodies is constantly expanding and evolving and sometimes that means

modifying or even reversing our positions in light of newer evidence.

Case in point.

When I first started doing the Nutrition Diva Podcast,

Calcium supplements were widely recommended to post-menopausal women as a hedge against osteoporosis.

Since then, though, there has been a steady drip of research suggesting that high-dose calcium supplementation after menopause does very little

to reduce the risk of bone fractures and it may actually increase the risk of

other problems like kidney stones Colin colon polyps, even heart attacks.

High-dose calcium supplements are no longer the standard prescription.

In fact, the US Preventive Services Task Force now recommends against calcium supplementation

for most post-menopausal women.

Now that certainly doesn't mean that nothing can be done to strengthen your bones.

And for more on what you can do, I've... nothing can be done to strengthen your bones.

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