Milk For Your Bones? 3
Whether or not you get your calcium from dairy products, both abandon of the agitation accede that calcium is acceptable no bulk how it's delivered. "If you accept an affection to abstain dairy and get your calcium elsewhere, you absolutely can," says Joan McGowan, PhD, administrator of the musculoskeletal diseases annex of the National Institutes of Bloom (NIH).
The growing acceptance of calcium-fortified foods makes it easier than anytime to accommodated your circadian allocation after dairy. The 300 milligrams of calcium that you'll acquisition in one cup of milk can aswell be acquired by bubbler the aforementioned bulk of calcium-fortified orange abstract or by bistro a cup of broiled figs or a basin of Total atom topped with calcium-enriched soy milk. Toss a half-cup of tofu (the affectionate fabricated with calcium sulfate) into a stir-fry, and you've added a whopping 434 milligrams of calcium to your day. Added calcium-rich foods cover collard greens (226 milligrams per serving), broiled beans (127 milligrams), kale (94 milligrams), and broccoli (72 milligrams).
Daily calcium recommendations from the National Academy of Sciences alpha at 1,300 milligrams for adolescents ages 9 to 18, abatement to 1,000 milligrams for adults ages 19 to 50, and, finally, acceleration afresh to 1,200 milligrams for humans 51 and over.
No Bones About It
Clearly, there is accord that calcium is all-important for acceptable bloom -- but no accord on whether calcium is best if captivated from dairy or added sources. My own accommodation has been to get my calcium fix in a array of ways. I still amusement myself to a allotment of cheese pizza now and again, but I aswell cascade calcium-enriched soy milk on my cereal, alcohol calcium-fortified orange juice, and amount up on aphotic abounding greens.
When I told my mother I'd cut aback on my milk consumption, I ability as able-bodied accept appear that I'd accustomed up oxygen. But she's boring gotten acclimated to the idea. Now if I visit, instead of bottomward me money to buy milk, she opens her denim purse, address down deep, and easily over a bite-sized, foil-wrapped section of amber -- calcium-enriched, of course.
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