Dr John Wade, MD, FRCP, discusses the benefits and uses of calcium.
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What is Calcium? Dr John Wade, MD, FRCP, discusses the benefits and uses of calcium.Featuring Dr. Wade, MD, FRCP
What is Calcium?
Duration: 1 minute, 25 seconds
Calcium is an important supplement like a number of other minerals that we take.
We
get calcium primarily in our diet and the importance is that calcium is
important for your health and your teeth, for your bone and for muscles
as well as some other function of cells. So, calcium is a crucial
supplement that we all take and it is important we get the right amount
of calcium in our diet.
So, we get calcium in all sorts of
foods. The average, typical non-dairy diet would give us about 300 to
700 milligrams of calcium a day.
We like to target calcium
around 1200 milligrams a day, so most people who are not taking any
extra dairy product in their diet will need some extra calcium.
There
are two ways to do that. You can actually add dairy to your diet.
Calcium and dairy is an excellent source of calcium. An eight-ounce
glass of milk will give you 300 milligrams of calcium.
Six
ounces of yogurt can give you about 300 milligrams of calcium. So, you
have a glass of milk and six ounces of yogurt a day, you have 600
milligrams plus your diet, you probably get pretty close to 1200
milligrams a day.
So, it is fairly easy to get it. Typically,
most adults if they are avoiding calcium will get a little bit less
than they should, so you may want to take a little bit of supplement of
calcium.
Presenter: Dr. John Wade, Rheumatologist, Vancouver, BC
Local Practitioners: Rheumatologist
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