A 1995 USDA survey found that girls and young women ages 12 to 19 got only 777 mg of calcium daily. Intake by boys and young men in the same age group was 1,176 mg. FDA advises getting at least 1200 milligrams of calcium daily between the ages of 11 and 24. Compared with other children, female adolescents drink the least amount of fluid milk. Our bodies start to form most of our bone mass before puberty, building 75 to 85 percent of the skeleton during adolescence.
Many foods are now fortified with calcium, so consuming higher amounts is somewhat easier.
FDA Consumer, September-October 1997. Community Nutrition Institute's Nutrition Week, August 22, 1997. The scientists reviewed more than 4,000 research studies on diet and cancer for the World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research, non-profit cancer charities. Evidence of the protective properties of plant foods keep coming. Researchers compared the diets of 332 women with endometrial cancer to the diets of 511 women without the cancer.