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pisces2473
03-28-2005, 02:13 PM
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/milk/whycal/sources.cfm

This is the gov. site w/ info on how much is enough, where you can get it from (besides dairy foods for you vegans and allergic/intolerant people).

http://www.spine-health.com/topics/conserv/calcium/calcium02.html

lists of food

REMEMBER TO GET VITAMIN D AS WELL!
Bugsey34
03-28-2005, 02:17 PM
My doc advised me to eat Tums every once in a while to boost my calcium.

And she told me that we build calcium until we are 30, then we start losing it so we have to build it up now because later on it will be too late!
Kitty
03-28-2005, 02:29 PM
I am so damn scared of osteoporosis (spelled correctly?).

My grandma had it and it scares the hell out of me. I don't drink milk so I'm paranoid i'll get it.
shimmer728
03-28-2005, 03:10 PM
I am so damn scared of osteoporosis (spelled correctly?).

My grandma had it and it scares the hell out of me. I don't drink milk so I'm paranoid i'll get it.

Same with me. I hate milk, so I take calcium pills to compensate. :)
Kitty
03-28-2005, 03:11 PM
I take calcium pills too, but I don't think its as good as getting it from a natural source. I do like frozen yogurt though!
biodork
03-28-2005, 03:15 PM
Chocolate Milk! mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm :)
cornflakegirl
03-28-2005, 10:56 PM
My doc advised me to eat Tums every once in a while to boost my calcium.

And she told me that we build calcium until we are 30, then we start losing it so we have to build it up now because later on it will be too late!

i was just listening to this cd i have of this doctor talking about healthy eating & women's relationship to food. she mentions that tums is not an adequate way to get calcium. an ingredient in it actually inhibits calcium absorption. i'll have to listen again bc now i forget what the ingredient is.
Bugsey34
03-28-2005, 11:29 PM
Hmmm.. weird that my doctor recommended it...
pisces2473
03-28-2005, 11:56 PM
1. Doctors don't know everything--shocking, I know.
2. Doctors don't take nutrition classes in med school.
Bugsey34
03-29-2005, 10:29 AM
Yeah but I don't go to your average doc. She studies Alternative Medicine, I go to this Health and Healing Clinic, its awesome.
cornflakegirl
03-29-2005, 06:19 PM
Yeah but I don't go to your average doc. She studies Alternative Medicine, I go to this Health and Healing Clinic, its awesome.

that is odd then.
pisces2473
03-29-2005, 08:01 PM
Maybe her alternative medicine doesn't include food? I don't know...that's pretty random that she didn't know that about Tums.