Diet and Nutrition

Negative Mg balance affects Ca, K, cholesterol metabolism in older women

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, February 20th, 2005

Negative magnesium balance from consuming a magnesium-deficient diet affects calcium, potassium, cholesterol metabolism in postmenopausal women, nutritionists report.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service nutritionists "[tested] the hypothesis that naturally-occurring inadequate intakes of magnesium (Mg) induce negative magnesium balance and undesirable changes in calcium (Ca) metabolism variables, and that these changes are influenced by dietary boron (B)."

According to their study, "Diets composed of ordinary Western foods providing approximately 118 and 318 mg Mg/d and approximately 0.25 and 3.25 mg B/d were fed in a...

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Source: Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA (2005-02-20)

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