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Q: Do you get enough calcium in your Chinese diet?

A few months back, I  began to notice my skin was really dry and my nails were brittle. It occurred to me I was probably calcium deficient since I don't really eat much dairy here, so I started taking a multi-vitamin and low and behold its gotten a bit better. Anyway I'm curious if anyone else out there has experienced similar symptoms, and if not, I'd like to know where you get most of your calcium in your diet from.

 

11 years 3 weeks ago in  Health & Safety - China

 
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I eat yogurt every day, and I also eat cheese when I can get my hands on it.

Milk itself, I avoid like the plague. I just do not like the taste of milk, never have, be it Chinese milk or "Western".

But I do eat cheese, yogurt, etc. for my calcium (and the tatse).

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I used to drink 4 litres of full fat milk a day to bulk up. I don't drink that much now but I still drink it often.  Good cheese here is expensive so I don't eat much of that. I eat a fair amount of yogurt too. 

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Apart from eating food rich in calcium, remember that in order to utilize your calcium best, you need adequate exposure to sun light, since UV light activates Vitamin D which is necessary to absorb calcium. I do fair amount of outdoor activities whenever possible, but up in the north, we get bitter cold winters and getting your skin exposed to sun during winter is next to impossible.

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I certainly get enough arsenic.

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I never had those symptoms. I have had vitamins and skim milk every day for as long as I can remember. 

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I get organic milk imported from the US all the time and I eat more cheese (imported of course) here than probably anyone and combined with multiple vitamins no...I get more than enough.

For those of you here without the luxury I would suggest eating allot of tofu and broccoli and almonds as they are all rich in calcium.

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i got heal spurs after arriving here , so its broccoli, yogurt everyday, heal spur pain is gone, occasionally i can get cheese and drink imported milk, calcium vitamins have complications for heart disease in study last year, so i stopped the pills but who really knows.

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