because they are avatars...
Adults require about 1,000 mg of calcium per day to support essential bodily functions, including bone health, muscle function, and nerve signaling. Adequate calcium intake helps prevent osteoporosis and maintain strong bones as individuals age. Factors such as age, gender, and life stage can influence specific calcium needs, with some groups requiring higher amounts, such as women over 50 and men over 70. It's important to obtain calcium through a balanced diet or supplements as needed.
Because part of everything they eat goes to the growing baby. So they need to eat a little extra all over, and particularly of some extra important stuff. Like calcium, for growing bones.
because they are over 50
Yes, men and women generally need similar amounts of calcium, but there are some differences based on age and life stages. For most adults, the recommended daily intake is around 1,000 mg, but women over 50 and men over 70 are advised to increase their intake to 1,200 mg due to higher risks of osteoporosis. Therefore, while the baseline needs are comparable, specific life stages can influence calcium requirements.
Calcium is the main source for strong bones. A child's bones are still growing therefore they need more calcium than full grown adults. Teens also need calcium. Due to the fact that children and teens do not get enough calcium by way of dairy products or leafy green veggies, many food sources are fortified with calcium like Calcium fortified orange juice because most children would drink orange juice over milk anyday.
1,500 milligrams (mg) of calcium per day for adolescents, pregnant or breastfeeding women, older adults (over 65), and postmenopausal women not using hormone replacement therapy. All others should get 1,000 mg per day
Lack of calcium will cause osteoporosis, a condition that leaves a person's bones brittle and easily broken. This is more common in women of post-menepausal age. Women of Northern European or Asian decent are at a higher risk. Along with calcium supplements vitamin D must also be taken, calcium cannot be absorbed without vitamin D.
Yes, calcium can displace magnesium in certain chemical reactions. This is more likely to happen when calcium is in a higher oxidation state than magnesium, allowing it to take the place of magnesium in a compound or reaction.
No, it's usually the other way around. Women get hired over men
The average elderly man or woman of around 65 yeas of age, has a negative calcium balance and a bone mass which is gradually depleting (osteoporosis). In older postmenopausal women, who have been in their menopause for at least five years or more, evidence suggests that the effectiveness of a higher intake of calcium to ward off or delay bone depletion, is at best unclear or has no effect. Exercise in youth is a factor which improves bone density in old age. Evidence also suggests that a calcium supplementation does not prevent bone loss for lactating women who breast-feed their babies and only slightly enhances the gain in bone density after the children are weaned. Supplementation with calcium citrate malate has been seen to be more effective than supplementation with calcium carbonate, depending on the doses tested. Calcium intake needs to be supplemented with vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) in order to be most effective, rather than with just calcium.
No they were not... men were more controlling over their women then they are now.
Women over 50 requires less dietary iron. After 50 years of age, women usually stop mentruating. So they need 3 mg elemental iron/day as against 5 mg of elemental iron/day for menstruating women.