Dairy products, because they are rich in calcium, are highly recommended during pregnancy and lactation, two very demanding periods in calcium for the mother. Is it really justified to recommend a high calcium intake during pregnancy and breastfeeding? It would be worthwhile to revisit this issue.
The fetus takes in even the reserves of the mother of large amounts of calcium, it will use to promote the rapid growth of its small bone. It will be the same during breastfeeding. Several stressed the importance of eating a good quantity of milk during pregnancy, so to better “build” bone of the child, arguing that milk is the main food of the infant and better is starting to give him his life from the womb. Questionable reasoning.
Nearly 100% of women in the developing world give birth and nurse for periods much longer than in our Western countries, without apparent harm (not osteoporosis) and this, with a quarter of our recommendations for calcium (300 to 400 mg per day).
Dozens of research, you will find references at the end of the text, seem to show that bone mineral reserves of the mother normally regenerate during the months of lactation. Even as these mineral repeated requests during periods of pregnancy and lactation stimulate both the reconstruction that women would come out with a better frame.
Conversely, could it be that the overconsumption of dairy products come destabilize the body during pregnancy and lactation? Should we really recommend daily calcium intakes as high as 1200 mg? Women live yet beautiful pregnancy without complications, without consuming any dairy product, and with calcium intakes well below the 1200mg recommended on a daily basis. Two thirds of the adult recommendation of 1000 mg or 700 mg seems sufficient. (more…)
