No Milk no Calcium?

PearceJD1

Hi Guys

I stopped drinking milk years ago. At first I went to soy but then switched to Almond milk. What sources do you guys use to get calcium with a dairy free diet??

SunofaBeach14

I think dairy is too good of a nutrition source to cut out without a very good reason.

George_Baileys_Ghost

http://pediatrics.about.com/od/calcium/a/06_calcium_food.htm

Kayden1986

its in a lot of things, broccoli, tofu... tinned fish with small bones in. to name a few. But to save you the hassle of people going on about milk being great and reasons why you should / should not have it or any other rants

just type in : calcium sources other than milk in google.
Save yourself the debates and misinformation.

Meerataila

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/25/calcium-food-sources_n_1451010.html

Surprisingly Calcium-Rich Foods That Aren't Milk

Reminds me, I need to add oranges to my fruit smoothies. A small one has 38 mg of calcium.

taunto

You can use calcium supplements however why cut out milk anyways? Unless you are going vegan for moral reasons or religious reasons, I see no reason to cut out dairy.

Meerataila

I see a reason to cut out milk, although researchers don't know yet if it's a health concern:

http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/088922203771881202

Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) is an oncogenic retrovirus that commonly infects cattle and causes B cell leukosis in 1–5% of infected cattle. BLV-infected cells are present in marketed beef and dairy products. In the decade after the discovery of BLV in 1969, studies using agar gel immunodiffusion and complement fixation assays failed to find antibodies to BLV in human sera. This led to the prevailing opinion that exposure of humans to BLV and/or the potential for infection are not significant and therefore the virus is not a public health hazard. We reexamined this issue using more sensitive immunological techniques available today. Using immunoblotting to test the sera of 257 humans for antibodies of four isotypes (IgG1, IgM, IgA, and IgG4) to the BLV capsid antigen (p24), we detected at least one antibody isotype reactive with BLV in 74% of the human sera tested. The specificity of the reactivity was strongly suggested by competition studies and by ruling out cross-reacting antibodies to other chronic human viruses. Our results suggest that antibodies reactive with the BLV capsid antigen may serve as a biomarker for exposure to BLV and this exposure may be widespread. The results do not necessarily mean that humans are actually infected with BLV; the antibodies could be a response to heat-denatured BLV antigens consumed in food. They do, however, suggest that further studies in this area could be important.