Marta
02-15-2007, 08:24
In today's Charlotte Observer there's an article reporting on a study of young female military recruits.
"Stress fractures are the most common type of injury seen in military trainnees, particularly women, and are also prevalent in some athletes...The Creighton study found that women who took 2,000 milligrams of calcium and 800 internation units of vitamin D daily had 27 percent fewer stress fractures than those who didn't."
I did not put up a link to the article because the last time I tried to look at the Observer online I had to go through a ridiculous sign-up process. I'm sure there are better summaries of the study results out there anyway.
Time to go to work...
Marta/Five-Leaf
"Stress fractures are the most common type of injury seen in military trainnees, particularly women, and are also prevalent in some athletes...The Creighton study found that women who took 2,000 milligrams of calcium and 800 internation units of vitamin D daily had 27 percent fewer stress fractures than those who didn't."
I did not put up a link to the article because the last time I tried to look at the Observer online I had to go through a ridiculous sign-up process. I'm sure there are better summaries of the study results out there anyway.
Time to go to work...
Marta/Five-Leaf