Grand Rapids Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
I Need more Calcium and Vitamin D
What is your favorite way to get these vitamins? This has to be an everyday thing for me so it has to be somewhat healthy (i.e., no, I can't have pizza everyday :-).
And if you say yogurt or something like that, please give me the brand.
Thanks!
Re: I Need more Calcium and Vitamin D
I get these vitamins through daily doses of the following:
- Milk (drink with dinner every night).
- Calcium-fortified orange juice (drink with breakfast every morning). I buy Tropicana.
- Yogurt (eat as a snack most days). I usually buy either Stonyfield or Yoplait.
- Multi-vitamin for women (taken daily with breakfast). I buy the Meijer brand equivalent of Centrum.
I take a calcium + D supplement b/c it helps my knees not get achy from running.
My Clean Eating Blog
Green Living Reading List
Simply orange juice with cal and D added.
Stoneyfield yogurt. Go no-fat, you get more calcium.
milk.
Cottage cheese. The one in the red packaging, starts with a B. Agian fat free will have more calcium, the texture really grosses me out so I go with 2%
String Cheese. I like the Sargento brand.
Other foods high in Calcium (but I am unsure about vit D off the top of my head)
White beans. (white bean chili, white beans and kale soup) kale also has an ok amount of calcium (for a green leafy veg that is)
Cabbage (I make a black bean and cabbage tacos or a stir fry that has lots of cabbage)
Fish and eggs are good sources of Vitamin D.
A couple more random thoughts by Mira.
If you choose to take a supplement, make sure your daily vit is low in cal, and take a separate Calcium pill. Calcium binds with iron. They need to be taken at different times of day.
Shoot, there was something else I was going to tell you, but I for got. Damn pregnancy brain.
I take a supplement that has both Calcium and Vitamin D.
My last set of bloodwork showed defficency in both of these items. My Dr. said I would have to drink 40 glasses of milk to get the amount my body requires - so he told me to take it through vitamins.
I use chews that are like chocolates.
I did not know this. Hmmm...
Most dairy products for calcium. Yogurt (I prefer Chobani Greek Plain and add my own sweeteners add-ins), milk, cottage cheese, cheese.
Cottage chee w/fruit as a snack or yogurt w/mix-ins is almost always one of my daily snacks. Cheese will make it's way into my diet most days too. :-)
For non-dairy calcium, greens will be a good source - spinach, broccoli, brussel sprouts, peas. I think tofu and some fish (salmon?) can be a source as well.
Spinach in salads, broccoli steamed, brussel sprouts roasted in the oven w/olive oil S&P.
I don't know much about Vitamin D - maybe I need to get more myself. :-P
I've started drinking green monster smoothies which have spinach in them. We also eat broccoli about 3 times a week with dinner.
I really need to take a Vit. D supplement though, I dont eat much as far as dairy products go. I stood in the vitamin aisle at Meijer the other day looking for a general daily vitamin and was so overwhelmed with the choices I just walked away haha.
My usual intake was:
mandarin orange in morning
cheese stick late afternoon
2 cups of half perc milk at dinner
And I changed it to be:
yogurt first thing in the morning (late afternoon made me sick to my stomach for some reason)
cheese stick late afternoon
2 cups of half perc milk at dinner
multi vitamin at dinner
I was just looking for some more ideas. Now that I am working on the calcium thing and made some changes, now I'm not getting enough fruits. I'm trying to do a small meal every two hours instead of three big meals. Fruit and veggies for a snack just doesn't do it for me!
I had to have a bone scan because I was on prednisone a lot about 10 years ago due to ulcerative collitus. The bone scan showed that there is slight deterioration in my spine I think so my stomach doctor harped on the calcium thing a little and the results creeped me out :-).