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Calcium: How It Affects Your Body and Why You Need to Get Enough In Your Diet
Although 99 percent of the calcium in your body is in your skeletal system, you still may not be getting enough. Though you need calcium early in life when you’re growing, you need more later in life when it is quickly depleted. Your skeleton always needs enough calcium to stay healthy, no matter what age. This site has a chart of recommended calcium intake. Diet is very important to ensure calcium is absorbed, so having Vitamin D to stimulate that helps, too. This informative article explains in detail how your body absorbs calcium and uses it to strengthen bones. It suggests getting enough calcium through calcium-rich foods and/or calcium supplements.

The Food and Nutrition Center: Smart Eating Choices
This is the website of the Food and Nutrition Center, brought to you by the United States Department of Agriculture. You’ll find spotlight articles on healthy eating habits for teens, kids, infants, toddlers and adults. Information about how to keep a healthy lifestyle is include including nutritional data about hundreds of foods all available with the click of your mouse. Topics range from A to Z, and users can look at dietary guidelines and calorie content in their favorite foods.

Calcium for Every Age
Today’s news headlines stress the importance of calcium supplements and eating calcium-rich foods. Even those who have lactose intolerance know that there are calcium-rich foods they can eat to get their daily recommended amount of calcium. This important mineral is useful for any age. From young athletes, children and pregnant mothers to senior citizens and vegetarians, everyone needs to make sure they’re getting enough calcium. And with calcium linked to weight loss, its’ important to read about the useful aspects of this mineral. This site by Iowa State University Extension, explains the benefits of taking calcium supplements and getting enough calcium in your diet for all types of people at all ages.

Pam Rotella: Vegeterian Fun
This is the home page of Pam Rotella, a long-time vegetarian who wrote the book Vegan Vegetarian Cooking. This is her fun pages where she explores various topics than on her other site, veggiecooking.com. This site has an extensive nutritional and health section, featuring topics such as: bacterial mad cow theory, mercury poisoning, sickle cell anemia, curing cancer and AIDS, aspartame, MSG and other excitotoxins. Even includes a section with politics and scandals, and you can find some sample recipes from her cookbook, along with cooking tips and hints for vegetarians who are interested in nutrition.