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Coffee good or bad for osteoporosis?

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New research study from Hong Kong now says coffee drinkers have less of a chance of getting osteoporosis. This is the opposite of what we've always heard. Any researchers out there who can clear this up? I've been putting alkalinizing powders in coffee to keep the acid from leaching calcium out of bones, but maybe that's not needed? So confusing. Link to article: insider.com/coffee-may-be-g...

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If I read the summary right, only for men and pre-menopausal women, according to this study:

bmcpublichealth.biomedcentr...

And on the other side:

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/122...

So I'd say in the big picture caffeine may not help bones but neither does it cause harm.

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