Got Milk?

A glass a day might keep kidney stones away

If you suffer from kidney stones, you probably have been advised to avoid calcium like the plague. Turns out, that might be bad advice.

A study of 45,000 men conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health found that men who get lots of calcium in their diets have a one-third lower risk of developing kidney stones than those who consume calcium sparingly. One possible reason is that calcium blocks the action of a chemical implicated in stone formation.

So, join all those celebrities and be proud of that white mustache.

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