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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!

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Re yogurt, check to see if your preferred brand is available in plain or consider making your own plain yogurt with Vitamin D fortified milk. Making yogurt is pretty easy, and you can skip the extra sugar which contributes no valuable nutrients.

Baby steps are much better than doing nothing. It sounds like you are becoming educated about calcium in both food and supplements. Please let me know what you PCP recommends at this point.

Chris