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I'm open to being wrong, but it seems highly unlikely a requirement for being healthy is drinking half a litre of milk a day.

strken 4y ago
I don't mean to suggest that it is. The RDI for calcium is 1000mg/day, though, and it's really difficult to hit that by accident unless you have spectacularly good eating habits. The half-litre of milk is one of the many things you could try. You could also eat 100g of poppy seeds, 5 cups of cooked lentils, or a kilogram of cooked kale. The point is that it's genuinely very hard to eat enough calcium, and that's only one of the nutrients that need to be juggled.
- maccard 4y ago
  1000mg/day is 40% more than the NHS say [0]. (If there's multiple sources then I guess that's a great example of this article! ) The rest of your post is a little ridiculous too - instead of painting the ridiculous quantities why not talk about what a balanced intake might look like? 1 serving of regular yoghurt, a glass of a fortified juice, a leafy green with lunch and a legume with your main meal is more than even the 1000 number. > it's genuinely very hard to eat enough calcium, and that's only one of the nutrients that need to be juggled. Ive found that eating a variety of food stuff, and not hyper optimising for one nutrient goes an awfully long way towards hitting all of those goals. If you followed my suggestion above, you've likely hit your calcium, iron, vitamin A and C nutrients for the day out of ~700 calories leaving an average person 800-1200 calories leftover to burn on whatever they want to! [0] https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vitamins-and-minerals/calcium/#:~:text=How%20much%20calcium%20do%20I,need%20from%20your%20daily%20diet https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vitamins-and-minerals/calcium/....
  - im3w1l 4y ago
    Just to add on to what you are saying > The Reference Daily Intake (RDI) used in nutrition labeling on food and dietary supplement products in the U.S. and Canada is the daily intake level of a nutrient that is considered to be sufficient to meet the requirements of 97–98% of healthy individuals in every demographic in the United States. Due to individual variations you may need less. So falling short of the RDI isn't necessarily a problem. Edit: Consider what the RDI for calories would be. If it meets the requirements for 97% of people, then it must be a quantity sufficient for some people with very high metabolism. So eating RDI-calories would likely make a significant amount of people obese.

strken 4y ago

I don't mean to suggest that it is. The RDI for calcium is 1000mg/day, though, and it's really difficult to hit that by accident unless you have spectacularly good eating habits. The half-litre of milk is one of the many things you could try. You could also eat 100g of poppy seeds, 5 cups of cooked lentils, or a kilogram of cooked kale. The point is that it's genuinely very hard to eat enough calcium, and that's only one of the nutrients that need to be juggled.

maccard 4y ago
1000mg/day is 40% more than the NHS say [0]. (If there's multiple sources then I guess that's a great example of this article! ) The rest of your post is a little ridiculous too - instead of painting the ridiculous quantities why not talk about what a balanced intake might look like? 1 serving of regular yoghurt, a glass of a fortified juice, a leafy green with lunch and a legume with your main meal is more than even the 1000 number. > it's genuinely very hard to eat enough calcium, and that's only one of the nutrients that need to be juggled. Ive found that eating a variety of food stuff, and not hyper optimising for one nutrient goes an awfully long way towards hitting all of those goals. If you followed my suggestion above, you've likely hit your calcium, iron, vitamin A and C nutrients for the day out of ~700 calories leaving an average person 800-1200 calories leftover to burn on whatever they want to! [0] https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vitamins-and-minerals/calcium/#:~:text=How%20much%20calcium%20do%20I,need%20from%20your%20daily%20diet https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vitamins-and-minerals/calcium/....
- im3w1l 4y ago
  Just to add on to what you are saying > The Reference Daily Intake (RDI) used in nutrition labeling on food and dietary supplement products in the U.S. and Canada is the daily intake level of a nutrient that is considered to be sufficient to meet the requirements of 97–98% of healthy individuals in every demographic in the United States. Due to individual variations you may need less. So falling short of the RDI isn't necessarily a problem. Edit: Consider what the RDI for calories would be. If it meets the requirements for 97% of people, then it must be a quantity sufficient for some people with very high metabolism. So eating RDI-calories would likely make a significant amount of people obese.