Minerals are indestructible, and if your burn your food to cinders, the minerals are what's left. All major minerals help maintain water balance and acid-base balance, but each has a special role of its own. We'll cover a few minerals and their roles over the next three days. Calcium Calcium is the key component of bone and teeth . Calcium is not just kids stuff either .
Bone is a living tissue that throughout life is in a constant state of tearing down and building up.
Everyone needs a constant supply of calcium to keep up with this bone turnover. Growing kids need proportionately more because they are not just replacing bone, they are growing new bone. It's not news for me to tell you that widespread deficiencies of calcium are common these days. And it's probably because of the change in eating habits. Children are drinking more soda and less milk, adolescent girls prefer diet drinks to dairy products, and older women, concerned about putting on weight, avoid drinking milk, fearing its calories will end up on their hips and not in their bones.