Get the calcium you need.

Calcium is essential to a healthy diet and it helps prevent osteoporosis in later life. But most of us don’t get the calcium we need.
• Beginning at age 9, children should get 1,300 milligrams of calcium per day in their diet. Serve your child low-fat milk and foods high in calcium such as yogurt, cheese and other dairy products, cereal with calcium, orange juice with calcium, and dark-green leafy vegetables. An 8-ounce glass of low-fat milk has 300 milligrams of calcium.
• Most adults up to age 50 need 1,000 milligrams a day of calcium. Pregnant women and people over 50 need more than that.