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Article: Boosting Calcium in Diet May Take Planning; Many People Are Not Yet Meeting the Lower Guidelines Set in 1989
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- The Washington Post
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- August 19, 1997
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Nutritional guidelines released last week call for Americans
to increase their intake of calcium, one of the essential minerals
in building strong bones. But reaching the goals may be difficult
for some people to do without taking calcium supplements, experts
say.
Many people still fail to meet the much lower recommended
dietary allowances (RDAs) set for calcium in 1989. A report by the
Institute of Medicine released with the new nutritional guidelines
found, for example, that as many as 90 percent of teenage girls fall
short of meeting the previous dietary requirement for calcium. While