Calcium is one of the most important minerals we need and we need a vast and convoluted array of vitamins and minerals. It’s necessary for maintaining a healthy bone structure and allowing our bones to easily recover should we damage them. As you get older calcium becomes much more important as, as a general rule, our skeletons weaken somewhat. Keeping a healthy amount of calcium in your diet can curb this weakening before it starts, saving you from at least some of the ravages of osteoporosis.
What you may not be aware of is that different kinds of dairy products have different levels of effectiveness when it comes to protecting your bones. Some are chock full of calcium and others may just have a tiny amount of the minerals. There’s also some evidence to suggest that certain dairy products are actually bad for certain areas of your body. Ice cream and cream itself have statistically smaller quantities of calcium in them that milk or yoghurt.
Yoghurt is great for you! Not only is it packed with calcium, it’s also got vitamin B, potassium and probiotics in it. These are the good bacteria which are found in our digestive tracts and aid in digestions and keeping and healthy intestine. Having a high level of probiotics in your gut will help to protect it from infection and disease and generally keep your healthy in all aspects of your life.
Kefir is a thinner form of yoghurt which is often used as a drink or poured over cereal. It has three times as many probiotics in it than yoghurt does and all the other benefits! Most kefir products come flavoured like yoghurt does and each half cup contains 40 billion probiotics whereas an entire helping of yoghurt only contains one billion probiotics per serving.
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