Myth 4: You need milk to get enough calcium

Brenda Davis spoke to nutrition students and interested public at the University of Alberta regarding myths surrounding the vegan diet. In this video, she deals with the fourth myth that you need to consume milk to get sufficient calcium in your diet.

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• vegetarian
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• veganism
• diet
• nutrition
• brenda
• davis
• health

[VVofA]

Please site your references, because I have never seen the statistics you are talking about.

[paraplegicgiraffe]

Beware of celt130. All he does all day is look up vegan videos and spam them with stupid comments. That's LITERALLY all he does all day. I've seen his comments on every vegan video I've ever watched.

[JackFook]

@VVofA

That's not a myth. You made that up. The real myth is that milk and dairy is a good source of calcium. Since this myth is actually true, you can't very well use that to make your point, so you made up a myth which you can use to make your point.

[gongoozler18]

I find it odd that the recommend adequate intake of calcium for people 19–50 years is a whopping 1000 mg/day according to the FDA, but most other countries around the world like China and Japan consume less than 300 mg/day. The rate if osteoporosis in these countries is substantially less than in the U.S.

why?

[celt130]

For many years, people thought that extra amounts of vitamin D made by the sun during the summer could be stored in the body and used during the winter. Probably due to modern lifestyles and the use of sunscreen, we are now finding that most people, whether vegan or not, do not sustain optimal levels throughout the winter, and many don't even sustain them through the summer, especially in non-equatorial regions of the world

[celt130]

After adjusting for age alone, the vegans had a 37% higher fracture rate than meat-eaters. After adjusting for age, smoking, alcohol consumption, body mass, physical activity, marital status, births, and hormone replacement, the vegans still had a 30% higher fracture rate. Meat-eaters, fish-eaters, and lacto-ovo fracture rates did not differ in any of the analyses performed.