Milk sold commercially is fortified with vitamin D. Exactly how
much calcium children consume or where they get it isn't known, although some surveys have attempted to establish a rough idea.
Not exact matches
You may have to ask your pediatrician if your older
child can take Tums or a
calcium chew with vitamin D, like Viactiv, if your kids aren't getting
much calcium from other sources.
Make sure your tween knows how
much calcium, vitamins, and minerals a growing body needs daily, and then compare those needs with what your
child is actually consuming.
Find out why
children need the nutrients in cow's milk, how
much milk they should drink, other sources of
calcium, and how to s...
The average American
child consumes too
much sugar as it is; the fact that chocolate milk has protein and
calcium does not take away from the fact that it contains a significant amount of added sugar.
Also, if your
child is drinking a lot of juice, then he probably isn't drinking
much milk, which is a good source of
calcium and other vitamins and nutrients
Another benefit is that many chocolate flavorings are now fortified with some extra
calcium and other vitamins and minerals, so if your
child doesn't drink
much milk or other things with
calcium, then it might be a good way to make sure he gets enough of this important mineral.
He also needs about twice as
much calcium as he did at birth (see Calcium Requirements of Infants, Children, and Adolescents for more inform
calcium as he did at birth (see
Calcium Requirements of Infants, Children, and Adolescents for more inform
Calcium Requirements of Infants,
Children, and Adolescents for more information).
«Of the fifty - seven
children who had low blood
calcium levels, thirty - eight (66.7 percent) drank more than four bottles (12 to 16 ounces per bottle) of soft drinks per week, but only forty - eight (28 percent) of the 171
children with normal serum
calcium levels consumed as
much soft drinks These results more than support the contention that soft drink consumption leads to lower
calcium levels in
children.
How
much calcium should
children have?