Calcium In Our Meals

So How do we take calcium in our food?

Most of us are only aware that calcium comes from milk or dairy products. Yes these are rich sources of calcium yet we can also get calcium from our vegetables too.

Most diets today especially in comprises of rice, green leafy vegetables and fish. Now thats not eaten by everyone yet this is a good example. Well lets break the calcium intake down in this meal:

• Rice will give us approximately 5 mg of calcium in that meal
• Spinach will contribute a bit more at 58 mg
• Fish will add another 9mg

This gives us a total of 72 mgs of Calcium in that one meal. So if we eat three meals of the same above foods we will get say just over 200mgs as our daily intake.

Now from Clinical Trials that have been done the average adult needs arrox 1000mg a day at the minimum.

So where does that leave us. Short I should say. What are the consequences to less calcium in our daily intake over a long period of time?

Look out for our next post.