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Osteoporosis: What tests confirm diagnosis and treatment options?
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Jun 27 6:42pm | Replies (43)Comment receiving replies
Good afternoon @leeosteo. Unfortunately, I do not personally know the answer to your question about calcium. I had real digestive difficulty with a daily supplement and ended up with high calcium. So I talked with my PCP and here is what we figured out. She gave me a list of other ways to ensure sufficient calcium. I tried some of the suggested foods and was concerned about the reaction to other medications. I also found the sugar-free plain yogurts to be pretty tasteless. So my current solution is simple: Chobani makes a Zero Sugar "flavored" yogurt with calcium. I then add Fairlife non-fat milk with 30% of the daily dose and recommended fruits. I end up with at least 60% of my daily calcium goal and find the rest in dinner with salmon and high-calcium veggies.
PS: I sneak in iced yogurt bars for a treat in the evenings. Don't tell anyone!!!!!!!
Hope this gives you a headstart. What have you been using?
Chris
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I find plain yogurt tasteless but don’t want to use artificial sweeteners. I have found Nature’s Wild Berry to be the answer. Eating one berry changes anything you eat from sour to sweet for about 20 mins. It is strange but yogurt tastes like a bowl of cream! Delicious! Such a great hack to eat and enjoy yogurt but avoid sugar and artificial sweeteners. Available on Amazon , expensive but one a day and they last a long time.
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I've been keeping a food log for a suspected allergy. In this process I realized I was not getting enough calcium through food. I do take a multivitamin in the morning and Caltrate calcium pill with dinner. This still did not get me to my calcium target. My diet is good with whole foods but more acid then alkaline and low calcium. I know it's best to get calcium from food vs supplements. So now I've been adjusting my diet to include more calcium rich and alkaline foods (mostly fruits/veggies). I'll keep taking my multivitamin and calcium supplements and look for further direction from my PCP.
For now, I've added Simply Orange Juice with calcium/vitamin D, Cabot vanilla yoghurt with calcium/vitamin D (BTW, the only yoghurt I've found that includes vitamin D). These may have natural or added sugar so I'll work to find the equivalent with low fat/sugar. Baby steps!