Boosting Your Calcium Intake
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Boosting Your Calcium Intake
If you're not overly big on gulping down milk to get calcium into your system, you can choose some other ways to insure you're getting a little extra calcium boost here and there. Researchers suggest that the average person needs at least 1,000 mg daily if you're under 50 - but 1,500 mg if you're over 50 years of age. Some simple ways to incoroprate extra calcium into you diet include, sprinkling 2 tablespoons of shredded, reduced-fat cheese on a steaming bowl of black bean soup (this gives you an extra 100 mg of calcium), or drinking down a 12 ounce bottle of Gerolsteiner Sprudel sparkling mineral water - which offers 120 mg more calcium than Perrier. Also, instead of using peanut butter, give almond butter a try. Two tablespoons supply 76 milligrams more than peanut butter.
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