I posted this under nutrition and got no answers so I thought I would try again....If my milk has 35% of my calcium in a serving and I am drinking 3 servings a day, how much more calcium do I need for supplement? I don't know what 35% translates in to mg's of calcium. Thanks for any info......

Ok...this looks like one of those trick questions that looks so simple and then when you answer you look like a fool because it wasn't as simple as it seemed !!! Does that make sense???

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and give it a shot...

If one serving has 35% of your daily needs and you drink 3 servings a day...

35% x 3 servings = 105% of your daily needs.

Is that not right?...Is my brain in super simple mode?? ~Sigh~

Patricia

And by the way...

With a quick Google search, from what I can tell, the average woman, pre-menapausal, should get about 1200mg a day.

I got the 105% part, but does that equal the 1200mg I need a day. I think, if my friend was correct I still need about an extra 300 -400 mg a day. I am still not 100% sure. I will keep researching it. It was not intended to be a trick question, but can see where it might look that way.

I just did a google search and one glass of milk has 300mg of calcium.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recommends that women intake 1,000 mg (1g) of calcium daily, and then increase their daily dosage to 1,500 mg (1.5g) post menopause.