I have been doing 80/10/10 for a month now and am loving it!

(Including gaining a little much need booty/weight)

I do keep track of my intake to make sure I am giving myself enough energy daily.
I
 just had a look then and realised that my calcium intake for today sits at around 109% !!

Wow .. and I was worried about my bones before.
- Especially since being in recovery from bulimia.

I feel very relieved and grateful. I suppose that it just proves that you don't have to be harming innocent beautiful creatures in order to sustain your own life.
The dairy and meat industries would have the masses believe otherwise.

way to go MM,yup calcium intake eating~ vego/fruits should never be an issue...well done to you!

Oops, how did i miss this, just started another thread on pretty much the same topic!

I would still be cautious of calcium intake. I have borderline osteoporosis and no matterhow much raw calcium foods i eat my bones still crack and painfully bend, i still have to take calcium tablets. However i have given into dairy a couple of times and it makes my bones even more worser then raw calcium. With raw calcium i need to consume more and when i do i feel better. Because im sensitve to my back illness i feel it alot more then healthy people would.

It would also be interesting to see what inhibits or helps the absorption of calcium. I've not many clues about this stuff I'm afraid. I've read about it but the brain will not retain!

xoxoxo

Lol, yes i defo burn the midnight oil frequently, been sleeping terribly of late.

I do know that calcium needs vit d to absorb properly, so sunlight = good 

Apart from that i know things increase calcium requirements, like smoking, too much coffee.

Also, with osteoporosis weight bearing exercise is the most important thing for prevention, more so than calcium intake.

Ive read that about magnesium being more important too. I question the RDIs for calcium a little, looking at how much is in yoghurt for example, the consumption of dairy would have to be really high every day to get enough. Hmmm, makes me really wonder on what the human body really needs. Is that requirement more because people have diets too high in protein? I know high protein diets increase calcium needs as well, because excess protein must be excreted, but to do that the body needs to excrete calcium too, therefore increasing requirements. So if someones protein intake was triple what was needed on a daily basis its probs not too unreasonable to think that their calcium requirements might be as much as triple too.

Would certainly be an interesting thing to study, but who would fund it lol, and no doubt the dairy and meat industry would rally against it hahaha.