Calcium Carbonate Weight Loss Diet Nutrition Tips Guide

Calcium Carbonate Supplements Strengthen Your Bones

By Hazel Hawkins

Throughout life, your calcium needs will fluctuate. Babies start out with a need for 270 mg/day if breast fed or 350 mg/day if bottle fed. By the time they reach one year of age, their requirement is up to 500 mg. Since young children are constantly growing and developing, they'll need 700 mg/day from ages 4-8 and 1,000 mg from ages 9-11.

Teenagers go through growth spurts and require 1,300 mg from 12-18 and this will drop slightly to 1,000 mg/day during mid-life. Over time, the skeleton will naturally lose some of its calcium levels, so those aged 50 and over require 1,300 mg again. In addition to consuming dairy products and leafy greens, you can get your daily allowance through a calcium carbonate supplement like Rolaids or TUMS.

Getting Calcium From Your Food

To get your daily recommended value of calcium, you may want to review your options and just take a supplement like TUMS, Rolaids, Calcitrate or Chooz. Food is another excellent source. You'll get 300 out of your daily 1,000 mg from one cup of milk, a carton of yogurt or 200 ml of Calcium fortified soymilk or orange juice.

Fortified milk can provide as much as 400 mg in one cup. For another 100 mg, you can eat leafy greens like broccoli, collard, bok choy, Chinese cabbage and spinach. Note that the calcium absorption works best with dairy products or vitamin D containing substances and you may only be able to absorb 5% from something like spinach, which also contains a high level of oxalate. Other sources include soy, sardines, salmon, fortified breakfast cereals, fortified fruit juices and fortified breads.

Calcium Carbonate Supplements

Calcium carbonate comes as a pill, chewable tablet, capsule or liquid. You may be prescribed calcium supplements to take as often as four times per day if you're a prime candidate for Osteoporosis.

Usually, it's best to take the supplement with a glass of highly acidic orange juice or following a meal because it requires a little more stomach acids to get your calcium intake, compared to something like calcium citrate, which absorbs quicker but contains less elemental calcium. If you're taking liquid calcium, then be sure to shake well before using. Generally, antacids shouldn't be used for more than two weeks unless doctor recommended.

Calcium Carbonate In The Classroom

In addition to calcium supplements, calcium carbonate has industrial uses as well. Our first meeting with this mineral compound is usually at school, with writing chalk! It is also the most widely used mineral filler material in the paper, plastics, paints and coating industries. It's a vital component in bonding bricks, stones, roofing shingles, rubber compounds, steel, glass and tiles as well.

It makes paper brighter and smoother, as well as adds 30% more weight to paints. You may find this item in baking powder, toothpaste, dough, wine and animal feed. It can also neutralize acids in soil and water. What can't this useful mineral do?

Please Note: All information given on this site is for general information purposes and is not to replace any medical opinion or medical diagnosis given by a qualified medical doctor, a dietitian/nutritional expert or any other medical expert, as individual circumstances may vary. Please see your medical doctor, before any action is taken to alleviate symptoms.

This article was about Calcium Carbonate.

About the Author:
Hazel Hawkins is an author of nutrition, dieting and weight loss articles including Raw Vegan Diets, Intuitive Eating, Raw Food Books, Raw Food Detox.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles coming soon.

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