Should you take a calcium supplement, just in case? Is it Safe to Supplement with Calcium? Please read on before you decide. Malcolm was off to the doctor’s dispensary to collect his prescribed calcium supplement. He’d recently read a newspaper article about a lady who after 10 years on a vegan diet had a collapsed spine allegedly resulting from dietary calcium deficiency. Malcolm, aged 68, had gradually switched to eating more plants and less animal products over a couple of years after reading Michael Gregor’s ‘How Not To Die’. His doctor, being sympathetic to his anxiety, decided not to bother with a blood test but to allay Malcolm’s concern with a prescription because there was no danger of excessive calcium intake. It’s not unusual for newspapers to sensationalise and misrepresent a rare issue. Such content reassures the mainstream readership that their omnivore diet, although contributory to climate change, animal exploitation ...