From a young age, we've been told t...

From a young age, we've been told to drink our milk, whether it was our mom not letting us leave the dinner table until our glasses were void or today, milk-mustachioed celebrities ballyhooing its benefits.

Well, mom and those celebrities are right. Milk, with its abundance of calcium and beneficial vitamins, does do a corpse good. As the most calcium-dense nutrition on Earth, milk helps build brawny bones and maintain immune function, and any think it may aid in weight loss

if it were not that when dairy and your carcass don't agree, getting the commited 1,000-1,300 mg of calcium a day becomes a bit more difficult. In fact, since the average American diet contains barely 800 mg of calcium, it looks that more than just the lactose-intolerant are neglecting to pursue their mom's milk advice.

Here's where complements can swoop in to the extrication Simply pop a 500-mg calcium pill daily, and--presto--you're halfway to the minimum make acceptableed daily amount of 1,000 mg by day. Or you are until you find yourself standing in brass of the shelves at your local store, judgments slowly glazing over at the array of calcium varieties. Carbonate citrate ... lactate ... by what means to choose?

Luckily, the answer is elementary, as in the amount of elemental calcium in each. Since fill ups are not completely made of calcium, it's convenient to know how much of the component is in the supplement you elect Below are the approximate amounts of elemental calcium each formula has, according to the Physician's Desk Reference:

* calcium carbonate: 40%

* calcium phosphate: 40%

* calcium citrate: 21%

* calcium lactate: 13%

* calcium gluconate: 9%

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