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Many Americans don't get enough calcium in their diet. Calcium supplements can help you meet the daily requirement. But researchers are voicing concerns, some calcium pills contain small amounts of lead.
We're asking a huge portion of the population, and namely postmenopausal women, to take this every day for the rest of their lives.
Researchers at the University of Florida tested 23-brands of supplements and found eight had measurable levels of lead... Up to three micrograms. Six micrograms in a day is the recommended exposure limit.
If you had a calcium supplement that's giving you two or three, or in our viewpoint, that's really an unnecessary and avoidable exposure.
Environmental lead is everywhere – in what we breathe, eat and drink. Long-term exposure can cause health problems in children and adults.
Ideally, for whatever amount of calcium you're planning on taking in per day, you should have, get less than one microgram of lead.
So what can consumers do? Question the lead content in calcium products labeled natural and look for calcium marked lead-free. Two-thirds of the supplements tested *Were*.
We don't want to scare people into thinking that there's an immediate risk, because there is none.
For WebMD, I'm Damon Meharg.
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