Importance of Calcium For The Girls
Calcium is an essential mineral that is needed to strengthen bones. The content of calcium in the bones decreases with age, especially in women, especially after menopause. Teenage girls who consume less food substances that can be expected to have strong bones bones brittle and easily injured during adulthood. Children aged over 10 years should consume 1,300 mg of calcium per day.
To meet calcium needs, try the following tips:
1. Provide a variety of dairy products like cheese, yogurt and low-fat milk or fat-free.
To meet calcium needs, try the following tips:
1. Provide a variety of dairy products like cheese, yogurt and low-fat milk or fat-free.
2. Encourage your teen to eat foods that contain milk, because adolescents usually drink less milk than children. Explain to them the foods such as salmon, sardines, cheese, milk and green vegetables, nuts or tofu that provide calcium in a form that can be absorbed by the body quickly.
3. Encourage your teen to prefer a low-fat milk or nonfat, rather than soft drinks or fruit drinks in cans that contain only few nutrients, or even does not contain any nutrients at all.
4. Talk with your teen girls about osteoporosis and the importance of consuming foods or beverages that contain milk. Teenage girls usually start a diet and leave all food containing milk, thinking that will cause obesity. Provide low-fat dairy products or non-fat alternatives.
5. Make yourself as an example by eating dairy products also, which of course is also required of your body.
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